Project Night with Anagram
Anagram shared their interactive multi-sensory work 'Messages to a Post Human Earth' at a hybrid Project Night.
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In June 2021, KWMC hosted a special ‘Come Together’ themed Project Night where invited guests Anagram gave the opportunity to experience an immersive hybrid work called ‘Messages to a Post Human Earth’.
Anagram joined virtually to share how they made the work and give an insight into their process.
‘Messages to a Post Human Earth’ is an interactive, multi-sensorial journey designed to connect two people in their local green space.
You and your partner embark on an immersive audio journey featuring augmented reality (AR) to reimagine your relationship with the natural world.
Using an app on your phone and props you’ve been invited to bring with you, you are sent off to explore the natural world; a hearing, living thing, sensorially alert like you. You and your partner’s short journeys are different but work in synchronicity with the other. Both of your actions become a performance for the other.
The story explores the work of Monica Gagliano, who is well known for her research into plant intelligence and the behaviours that demonstrate memory by the Mimosa plant. It is also inspired by an essay by science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem where he suggested encoding messages into the DNA of plants.
All photos by Ibi Feher.
Anagram is a multi-award-winning creative studio, expert in thought-provoking interactive storytelling and immersive experience design.
Anagram make interactive and immersive experiences which get the audience to move, think, talk, and participate.
Anagram were winners of the Grand Jury Prize at Venice Film Festival 2021 in the VR section, the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival Storyscapes award, the 2019 Sandbox Immersive Art award, part of the Best VR in 2019 at the Venice International Film Festival, amongst other awards and nominatio.
They were named in the Createch 100 as ‘ones to watch for 2020’ by the Creative Industries Council and were selected twice for Columbia University’s Digital Dozen Breakthroughs in Digital Storytelling (in 2015 and 2019).
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Photos by Ibi Feher.
