Toasterlab Mixed Reality Performance Atelier
Annual General Meeting

The third gathering of the Atelier was planned in partnership with the Festival of Live Digital Art (FoldA) to integrate with this year’s program. With FoldA going fully online due to COVID19, so goes the Toasterlab AGM. In this hour-long session, the MRPA Advisory Board will share updates to recent projects, and talk about the opportunities and challenges faced by engaging in the necessary adaptation to the current realities of producing performance when we can’t gather.

Projects featured at this gathering will include:

• I.F. : Indigenous Futurities : Dancing Earth in CyberSpace
• Accessible motion capture for Oh, What a Lovely War at Hart House
• Update on TrailOff with Swim Pony Performing Arts
• And the fate of projects when you can’t get there...
  • Parkway Forest 2
  • The Right Way with DLT Experience

We'll be live streaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday, June 4, 2020 at:

9 a.m. AKDT (Juneau, UTC-8)
10 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC-7)
12 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC-5)
1 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC-4)
18:00 BST (London, UTC+1)
19:00 CEST (Berlin, UTC+2)

Toasterlab Mixed Reality Performance Hack (tMoRPH)

The third gathering of the Atelier was planned in partnership with FoldA to integrate with this year’s program and included a Hackathon to rapidly ideate solutions to some of the hard problems Toasterlab had found at the midway point of the Atelier project. Now spread over a week to allow for flexible distance participation, the Toasterlab Mixed Reality Performance Hack (tMoRPH) invites a small but diverse group of artists and technologists to break ideas and explore how to engage with mixed reality performance in remote and low-bandwidth environments. We will partner with Nakai Theatre of White Horse to explore ways in which these new immersive technologies, which have benefited from ubiquitous connectivity in our populations centres, find themselves going down trails less travelled and where connectivity is not a given. 

What happens when new immersive technologies, like Augmented and Virtual Reality, find themselves going down trails less travelled, where high speed internet is not a given? How does this key piece of accessibility change the dramaturgy of hybrid virtual/physical performances? From software solutions to 5G drones, FM radio or shows with performers distributed across the globe, teams will imagine future solutions beyond social distances. 

Nakai will bring some questions and scenarios, along with inviting Yukons creative and digital sector to participate as full participants or as field experts who can answer questions and speak to the realities of making digital work here.

Want to join?

Public Sessions (Streaming on Howlround)

KICK OFF

FINAL PRESENTATIONS

Working Sessions (Participants Only)

• Sunday, June 14, 2020: Office Hours Window, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. EDT
• Wednesday, June 17, 2020: Feedback + Sharing with All Groups, 12 - 1 p.m. EDT

 I.F.: Indigenous Futurities: Dancing Earth in CyberSpace

Collaborating artist visionaries reveal cyberspace as a realm of ritual, to reimagine the future from the brink of collapse of the dominant system and re-emergence of Indigenous cosmologies. Technology is reclaimed to affirm connections between distant places and times. At a time of DisDancing: what is the message from human-to-human; what is the sacred invisible web that connects us? We reach into the constellations to remember ancestral stories of creation after destruction, to guide us forward.

EXPLORING THE QUESTIONS

1. Ritual - to reimagine the future that we are stepping into , and what are are the superhero powers/innate purposes in life/guiding philosophies that we are conjuring and embodying to get there
2. ReCreation post apocalypse: what are our creation stories that can teach us about resilience in the remaking of the world
3. What is the Message from Humans to Earth of Love in a Time of Corona?
4. During these dark times, what is the light that each of us carries, as constellations?
5. at a time of DisDancing : what is the message from human-to-human; what is the sacred invisible web that connects us?
6. Can intuition, imagination, and Indigenous science that parallels quantum theory, bring us together over vast distances of places, time , difference to meet in the spaces between - the connective tissue, the flow, the infinite, liminal space, the life force energy we all share?

ARTISTS
Tisina Parker : Social Impact Producer
Rulan Tangen : Director/Choreographer in collaboration with artists
QVLN : Music Director

Multi Artist Dancers/Vocalists/Speakers/ Cultural Collaborators:
Jade Whaanga
Eugene “Trey” Pickett III
Dakota Alcantara-Camacho
Lumhe Micco Sampson

Videos from the Vancouver Symposium Are Online!