(IN-PERSON) Hybrid by Design: Afternoon 5 - Imaginary Campfires + The Observer Effect
When
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Friday May 13 2022
Approximate running time: 3 hours
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Welcome to Hybrid By Design.
This is a festival that celebrates process and experimentation.
We invite you to do the same.
Each block of time, whether it be an afternoon or an evening, has been curated with a series of offerings for you to experience.
Running all day in the Franco Boni Theatre from 12PM-9:30PM. Small groups will be invited into an immersive 360° film experience to watch Lorena Torres Loaizia’s The Shining Lake and Nehal El-Hadi’s On Minors, Movement, and the Gathering of Data. When you book your ticket, the box office will follow up with you to confirm a time where you can see both films, if possible.
What's On Tonight:
Imaginary Campfires
The Observer Effect
Start Time: Thirty Minute Window Between 12:00-5:00pm
Please note: The Theatre Centre will be screening these projects in person as a 360° immersive experience. Capacity for each screening is limited. Once you've reserved a ticket, a patron experience representative will be in touch to schedule a specific screening time between 12-5pm.
Running May 9-15, 2022, Hybrid by Design features seven works by artists from The Theatre Centre’s Residency program and a selection of international work curated by Battersea Arts Centre in London, U.K. As part of Canada Council’s Digital Now program, the work featured will bridge live performance and digital creation in experimental, genre-defying ways ensuring audiences in-person and at home can experience the show of a lifetime.
Imaginary Campfires
Imaginary Campfires are two short, recorded storytelling performances. They’re partly inspired in Latin American storytelling and Japanese Rakugo, where a single speaker brings all characters and events to life. They also experiment with video art and illustration. The Shining Lake (performed by Monica Garrido) is the life of an immigrant woman translated into a fairy tale. The Likewise Madam Mirror (performed by Polly Phokeev) is a short, horror tinged story about people’s relationship to their own thoughts.
The Shining Lake will be screened in-person; The Likewise Madam Mirror will be available to watch digitally.
Content warnings: Depictions of threat of violence and psychological/supernatural harm.
The Shining Lake - Created by Lorena Torres Loaiza, performed by Monica Garrido
The Likewise Madam Mirror - Created by Lorena Torres Loaiza, performed by Polly Phokeev
The Observer Effect
An Immersive Installation by Nehal El-hadi and Coco Guzmán
The observer effect occurs when the act of observation itself disturbs what is being studied. As we move through the city, it’s inevitable that our movements are tracked and recorded on several different cameras. There are cameras everywhere now, designed to observe, monitor, capture, and survey life in public space, ostensibly for the purposes of crime deterrence and investigation. The cost is not only our privacy but our freedom to simply exist. And what of the information that is collected? Our likenesses, movements, moods, and emotions are transformed into data, and the long-term implications and applications of this are unknown.
Tickets for Hybrid by Design are free - donations are happily accepted
Hybrid by Design is made possible by the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Now Fund, and the Department of Heritage Canada Arts Presentation Fund.
This is a festival that celebrates process and experimentation.
We invite you to do the same.
Each block of time, whether it be an afternoon or an evening, has been curated with a series of offerings for you to experience.
Running all day in the Franco Boni Theatre from 12PM-9:30PM. Small groups will be invited into an immersive 360° film experience to watch Lorena Torres Loaizia’s The Shining Lake and Nehal El-Hadi’s On Minors, Movement, and the Gathering of Data. When you book your ticket, the box office will follow up with you to confirm a time where you can see both films, if possible.
Imaginary Campfires
The Observer Effect
Start Time: Thirty Minute Window Between 12:00-5:00pm
Please note: The Theatre Centre will be screening these projects in person as a 360° immersive experience. Capacity for each screening is limited. Once you've reserved a ticket, a patron experience representative will be in touch to schedule a specific screening time between 12-5pm.
Running May 9-15, 2022, Hybrid by Design features seven works by artists from The Theatre Centre’s Residency program and a selection of international work curated by Battersea Arts Centre in London, U.K. As part of Canada Council’s Digital Now program, the work featured will bridge live performance and digital creation in experimental, genre-defying ways ensuring audiences in-person and at home can experience the show of a lifetime.
Imaginary Campfires
Imaginary Campfires are two short, recorded storytelling performances. They’re partly inspired in Latin American storytelling and Japanese Rakugo, where a single speaker brings all characters and events to life. They also experiment with video art and illustration. The Shining Lake (performed by Monica Garrido) is the life of an immigrant woman translated into a fairy tale. The Likewise Madam Mirror (performed by Polly Phokeev) is a short, horror tinged story about people’s relationship to their own thoughts.
The Shining Lake will be screened in-person; The Likewise Madam Mirror will be available to watch digitally.
Content warnings: Depictions of threat of violence and psychological/supernatural harm.
The Shining Lake - Created by Lorena Torres Loaiza, performed by Monica Garrido
The Likewise Madam Mirror - Created by Lorena Torres Loaiza, performed by Polly Phokeev
The Observer Effect
An Immersive Installation by Nehal El-hadi and Coco Guzmán
The observer effect occurs when the act of observation itself disturbs what is being studied. As we move through the city, it’s inevitable that our movements are tracked and recorded on several different cameras. There are cameras everywhere now, designed to observe, monitor, capture, and survey life in public space, ostensibly for the purposes of crime deterrence and investigation. The cost is not only our privacy but our freedom to simply exist. And what of the information that is collected? Our likenesses, movements, moods, and emotions are transformed into data, and the long-term implications and applications of this are unknown.
Hybrid by Design is made possible by the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Now Fund, and the Department of Heritage Canada Arts Presentation Fund.