pervasive media studio

Micro-residency: Stand + Stare Collective

A Micro-residency supporting development of Theatre JukeBOX, a new project by Stand + Stare Collective.

Theatre JukeBOX reinterprets the original arcade machine format and combines it with immersive, interactive theatre to create a unique narrative experience.

Using pre-recorded audio and visuals, combined with clue-solving and interaction with objects, the Jukebox is an arcade-style unit that delivers an experience similar to immersive theatre, but without the need for live actors. Designed for individuals, and lasting no more than two minutes at a time, the automated performance utilises pervasive technologies to deliver content that responds to user choices.

Micro-residencies enable artists to rapidly develop ideas, within the collaborative environment of the Studio. It provides a platform for critical and technical investigation and experimentation, and a forum in which new ideas can get off the ground.

You can watch a video about Theatre Jukebox over on dshed.net, or read the project report here.

Lucy and Barney Heywood are co-artistic directors of Stand + Stare Collective. They completed the micro-residency throughout June 2011, supported by Arts Council England. Following the completion of the residency, Stand + Stare stayed on as Studio residents to continue developing the project and exhibited at Bristol Old Vic's Ferment in July 2011.

Journal Entries

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  Progress

  2011 Sep 1 - 15:59 by StandandStare

  categorised under:

  • archive
  • heritage
  • rfid
  • Theatre Jukebox

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  Pictures That Tell Stories

  2011 Jun 30 - 21:13 by StandandStare

  categorised under:

  • postcards
  • residency
  • standandstare
  • theatre

  Since our last post, we have made a prototype of the jukebox, erecting a downwards facing projector over a table and testing out a

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  Postcards

  2011 Jun 23 - 15:16 by StandandStare

  categorised under:

  • jukebox
  • micro-residency
  • projection
  • rfid
  • theatre

  After a really interesting and constructive work-in-progress meeting last Friday, we went away and reassessed our ideas.

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  How time flies

  2011 Jun 16 - 09:55 by StandandStare

  categorised under:

  • Update

  Already in week three of our micro residency. How timeflies... In week one we spent our couple of days at the studio aclimatising, meeting folks and talking through our aims and ideas for this project. Last week, with help and research from Dan, we began to pin down how we want the jukebox to look and what technologies it should contain. We were introduced to Sketch up, a wicked little free google app that we used to create the first design for how the jukebox will look. And here it is... (see image).

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