2017 HEAR Now Festival Featured Programming:

CVRTAIN - Virtual Reality Demos Were Offered On:

THURSDAY,  June 8, 2017
10:00am - 6:00pm
Holiday Inn Country Club Lobby

FRIDAY,  June 9, 2017
10:00am - 6:00pm
Holiday Inn Country Club Lobby

SATURDAY,  June 10, 2017
10:00am - 6:00pm
Holiday Inn Country Club Lobby
Open to General Public & Festival Pass Holders

All HEAR Now Festival Pass holders get one free CVRTAIN Virtual Reality Demo.
Additional demos are $5.00 for HEAR Now Festival Pass holders.
(Only 1 demo per pass holder, demos are not transferable.)

GENERAL PUBLIC:
Saturday, June 10th HEAR Now opens the CVRTAIN Virtual Reality Demo to the public.
$5.00 minimum donation at the door for public VR Demos.
Cash only please, no checks or credit cards.

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The HEAR Now Festival put its guests center stage with the sound and live experience of being
'on-stage' with CVRTAIN.

CVRTAIN is a virtual reality (VR) experience starring you. Placed center stage in a beautiful theater, the curtain parts to reveal an audience of thousands teaming with adulation. Do you freeze in the spotlight, or bow graciously?
Inside CVRTAIN, every action of yours produces a different reaction in your audience: thunderous applause, feet stomping, cameras flashing, maybe even booing. An entire audience’s emotions are at your virtual command, but only until the curtain closes.

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CVRTAIN
Cast & Crew:

Getting ready to take their bows at a CVRTAIN Virtual Reality Demo

Yehuda Duenyas is an artist, Experiential Director, and the CXO of the Emmy Award winning Mindride LLC, an artist-driven company specializing in next-generation experiential entertainment. Bridging the gap between the physical and the virtual, Yehuda is a visionary artist who creates immersive encounters and interactive events, playful environments that sensuously evoke the mythic, the intimate, the ridiculous, and the sublime. www.mindride.co

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Christopher Romero is a long time practitioner of the interacktive teknologickals. He studied Poetics at New College of California with Robert Duncan and was recently published in Sensitive Skin magazine. He plays Balinese Gamelan, electronic percussion and electric/acoustic strings. As a solo artist he has created two albums of material : “Pretty Sketchy” and “Some Are”. He produced two DVDs (“3 Films By Elias Romero” and “Ramayana”) and conceived, produced and created projections for the shadow puppet play Wayang Jataka.

Professionally he has lead the technical production teams at Nickelodeon Online (nick.com), Worldwide Biggies (Princess Bride Game, American Girl Virtual Word), FunGoPlay (connected online virtual world), Adoptive (Yale Medicine application servers), HolojamVR (COO) and Amplify (Associate Director of Front End Development). In VR he developed code and UX for Flock, a HolojamVR piece that premiered at the Festival of Storytelling, a demo for the CEO of Ikea, a model of an airport for a phobia reduction game, and designed the world and wrote code on CVRTAIN.  

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CVRTAIN is created by Yehuda Duenyas and commissioned by Performance Space 122 with an implementation grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation for the Building Demand for the Performing Arts Program.

CVRTAIN Creative Team:
Yehuda Duenyas – Experiential Director / Creative Director
Kristen Vallow – Production Designer
Christopher Romero – Lead Developer
Owen Bell – Game Designer
Jody Elff – Sound Designer
Ben Kato – Designer, VR Developer
Nick Suda – R&D, Technical Advisor
David Lobser – 3D Artist
Lisa Feder Castenskiold – Art Coordinator
Sara Pauley – Production Coordinator
De Boer Media – Printing and Fabrication

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