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Quills Fest 2022

O! Digital Stage
Audience Reviews Quills Fest VR World Projects Schedule for VR Pop Up (Nov 4-5)
Audience Reviews Quills Fest VR World Projects Schedule for VR Pop Up (Nov 4-5)

OSF’s annual festival where immersive technology and live performance come out to play!

Quills Fest launch weekend—Nov 4 & 5, 2022—features new and continued XR commissions, as well as parties, virtual studio visits, demos and many more live engagements that you can experience in VR, on the web browser, and in a VR pop-up at NYU Tandon at the Yard in Brooklyn, NYC. Projects and conversations will be available on Quills Fest VR World via VR headset and web browser through the end of November.

Quills Fest 2022 showcases world-premiere XR projects that boldly explore liveness, interactivity, and immersive storytelling. Quills Fest is an artist-centric space that invites the public into various stages in the life cycles of XR projects—from prototypes, to works-in-progress, to critically acclaimed prior projects by the commissioned artists. Alongside the XR projects, featured conversations that dive into the behind-the-scenes of XR production celebrate the most adventurous voices in art and immersive technology.

Envisioned by OSF Artistic Director Nataki Garrett and produced by the OSF Innovation & Strategy team, Quills Fest is a transmedia sandbox that radically expands access to the transformational power of storytelling and imagines a multimodal future of theatre.



Young-Howze Digital Theatre Awards Winner

Queerskins - "360" Award for VR Show of the Year


Audience Reviews

I enjoyed a space where my children were not only welcomed but embraced... A space where they could participate in their future.
—Garlia Cornelia Jones, Director, Innovation and New Media of The Public Theater
The future is here, and OSF is lighting the path. Theatre must evolve and not fear remarkable, new technologies... There is a way forward, and Quills Fest is taking the lead.
—Emmanuel Wilson, Executive Director of Creative Affairs and Membership, Dramatists Guild of America
Quills Fest VR World

Quills Fest 2022 features the launch of a bespoke Quills Fest Virtual Reality World, a playful take on OSF’s iconic Elizabethan Theatre! Quills Fest VR World, helmed by OSF’s Creative Technologists in Residence Illya Szilak and Cyril Tsiboulski in an industry-first partnership with VAST, a festival and social multiverse platform by the Taiwan-based Sandman Studios. 

The Quills Fest VR exhibition space will feature original avatar design by Sengalese fashion and tech trailblazer Selly Raby Kane and original musical score by multidisciplinary artist and composer Justin Hicks.

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Quills Fest VR world with buildings.

ANAKWAD

O!VR Experience

Director and Performer Ty Defoe
Director Dov Heichemer
Developer and Technical Artist alpha_rats
Produced in Partnership with NYU Tandon at The Yard

The Hanged Man

O!Immersive Microsite, Music (work in progress)

Artist and Creator Daniel Alexander Jones

ATEN

O!Immersive Microsite, Music

Artist and Creator Daniel Alexander Jones

BLOOM

O!360 Video Experiment (work in progress)

Artist Nao Bustamante
In Partnership with Park Avenue Armory

Diagnosia

O!VR Documentary Experience

Artists Mengtai Zhang & Lemon Guo

LOOM

O!VR Experience (work in progress)

Artists Mengtai Zhang & Lemon Guo

Ordinary Gesture

O!Theatrical VR Experience

Artist Raja Feather Kelly
Creative Technologist Illya Szilak
Creative Technologist Cyril Tsiboulski
Composer Christoph Mateka
Produced in Partnership with NYU Tandon at The Yard

Haboob: The Sublime Nature of Sudanese Sandstorms

O!VR Experience (work in progress)

Artist Nehal El-Hadi
Artist Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde
In partnership with New York Live Arts

Queerskins: Ark

O!Cinematic VR Experience

Artists Illya Szilak & Cyril Tsiboulski

Herstory in the House 

O!Immersive Audio Experience (work in progress)

Donya K. Washington, Jocelyn Kuritsky, and Cecil Baldwin
With Artists  Jonathan Goldberg, Josh Horvath, Florencia Lozano and Jenny Turner Hall
In partnership with The Tank, The Merchant’s House Museum, The Muse Project, and A Simple Herstory, LLC

On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World)

O!Virtual Reality Experience

Archer’s Mark
Atlas V

Iago: The Green Eyed Monster - Musical AR Experience App

O!Musical AR Experience App

Mary Chieffo
Josh Nelson Youssef
Veronica Flint

Sponsored by Verizon

OSF NFT Project

O!NFT Collection

Curated and Produced in Partnership with Lauren Ruffin & Mark Sabb 

The Cymbeline Project

O!O! Digital Stage 10-Episode Digital Series

Conceived by Nataki Garrett
Created by Scarlett Kim
Featured Lead Artists: Tara Ahmadinejad, Chicago Puppet Studio (Myra Su & Jaerin Son), Monty Cole, Nataki Garrett, Diana Oh, ruth tang, and Eric Ting 

Schedule for the Quills Fest In-Person Pop Up (Nov 4-5, 2022)

Appointment slots to experience Quills Fest through a VR headset in person at our pop up at NYU Tandon at the Yard, as well as registration for in-person events, will be available on Thursday, Oct 20, 2022. Space is limited for in-person events and appointments.

Friday, Nov. 4

  • 10am PT / 1pm ET | Guided VR Tour
    Livestream on web & in the Quills Fest VR World
  • 11am PT / 2pm ET | Conversation: The Making of the Quills Fest VR World
    Livestream on web
  • 12pm PT / 3pm ET | Virtual Studio Visit: Lemon Guo & Mengtai Zhang
    Livestream on web
  • 1pm PT / 4pm ET | Virtual Studio Visit: Nao Bustamante
    Livestream on web
  • 2pm PT / 5pm ET | Virtual Studio Visit: Daniel Alexander Jones
    Livestream on web
  • 3pm PT / 6pm ET | Conversation: Podcast as Theatre, Theatre as Podcast
    Livestream on web
  • 4pm PT / 7pm ET | IRL & URL Jam Session
    Simultaneously in the Quills Fest VR World and in person at NYU Tandon at the Yard

Saturday, Nov. 5

  • 9am PT / 12pm ET | Virtual Studio Visit: Nehal El-Hadi & Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde
    Livestream on web
  • 10am PT / 1pm ET | Virtual Studio Visit: Josh Nelson Youssef, Mary Chieffo & Veronica Flint on Shakespeare and AR
    Livestream on web
  • 11am PT / 2pm ET | Virtual Studio Visit: ANAKWAD and ORDINARY GESTURE Artists on Choreography & MoCap
    Livestream on web
  • 12pm PT / 3pm ET | Virtual Studio Visit: Episodic Transmedia Storytelling in The Cymbeline Project
    Livestream on web
  • 1:30pm PT / 4:30pm ET | Volumetric Demo and Talk with Illya Szilak & Todd Bryant
    In-person only at NYU Tandon at the Yard
  • 2:30pm PT / 5:30pm ET | Playtest: Herstory in the House Immersive Audio Experience
    In-person OFF SITE at The Merchant’s House, East Lower Manhattan
  • 3pm PT / 6pm ET | Hands-On Workshop: Intro to XR for Theatremakers with Michaela Holland
    In-person only at NYU Tandon at the Yard
  • 5pm PT / 8pm ET | NFT Party + Toast by Artistic Director Nataki Garrett
    In-person only at NYU Tandon at the Yard

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