Transmission

August 2017
Edinburgh, Scotland
iOS locative app for distributed performance
Collaboration with Toasterlab

Arrival meets Pokemon Go in transmission: a distributed performance and podcast series about first contact with alien life.

transmission is is an immersive theatre production that tells the story of two brilliant sisters selected to join a mission to meet our celestial neighbors. Their story is told through a live show at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, a podcast, and several site-specific, augmented reality scenes that are linked to specific locations throughout Edinburgh.

Maptool
Over the last several years, from 2014’s [Hotel City]({{ site.baseurl }}{% link _posts/2014-09-15-HotelCity.md %}) to 2017’s [Transmiss.io/n]({{ site.baseurl }}{% link _posts/2017-08-01-Transmission.md %}) we found ourselves regularly rebuilding the same workflow: a way to synthesize location-based…
This project is based on the Maptool software