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BLAST THEORY / Image: Rider Spoke / Courtesy: Blast Theory

Image: Rider Spoke
Courtesy: Blast Theory

BLAST THEORY

Interactive|Mixed-media|Performative events

PERMANENT STAFF
Artist
Matt Adams
Artist
Ju Row Farr
Artist
Nick Tandavanitj
Artist Assistant
Hannah Talbot
Artist Assistant
Kirsten Engelmann
Production Manager
Dicky Eton
Executive Producer
Julianne Pierce
Administrator
Dan Lamont
Associate Artist
Sheila Ghelani
Associate Artist
Niki Woods
Associate Artist
Paul Dungworth

ARTISTIC POLICY
Blast Theory is renowned internationally as one of the most adventurous artists' groups using interactive media, creating groundbreaking new forms of performance and interactive art that mixes audiences across the internet, live performance, and digital broadcasting. Led by Matt Adams, Ju Row Farr, and Nick Tandavanitj, the group’s work explores interactivity and the social and political aspects of technology.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Rider Spoke is such a gloriously enlivening piece of theatre.
The Guardian
Blast Theory’s latest interactive project has to be one of the most exhilarating theatrical experiences you’ll encounter.
Siobhan Murphy, Metro (Uncle Roy All Around You)
As a company, Blast Theory seems finally to offer Britain a theatre group that delves into our popular culture to create deeply challenging work.
Stephen Armstrong, Sunday Times (Desert Rain)

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Can Us See Me Now?
A game that happens simultaneously online and on the streets. Players from anywhere in the world can play online in a virtual city against members of Blast Theory.
Touring company:  1 production manager, 1 assistant, 1 technical manager, 3 performers working with 4 or 5 local performers.
Day Of The Figurines (DOTF)
Set in a fictional town where players establish codes of behaviour and morality within a parallel world. Using mobile phones, DOTF explores the nature of public participation and electronic spaces.
Touring company: Installation team comprised of 1 x production manager and 1 x assistant to work with 4 or 5 local performers.
Rider Spoke
A work for cyclists where theatre combines with game play and state of the art technology, continuing Blast Theory’s enquiry into performance in the age of personal communication.
Touring company: 3 creative personnel, 1 A/V tech support, 1 production manager working with 2 or 3 local performers.

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Desert Rain
In 2009/2010 Blast Theory will re-stage their seminal work Desert Rain - a game, an installation and a performance placing participants in a collaborative virtual environment and sending them on a mission into a virtual world.
Touring company: 5 performers, 1 A/V technician, 1 production manager with 3 – 4 local performers.

WRAP-AROUND
Internships (Age guide: 20 – 35). Blast Theory offers internships for emerging and established artists to work with the company.
Mentoring: (Age guide: 20 – 35).  Blast Theory offers mentoring opportunities for emerging artists, programmers and researchers to work on project based activities.
Residencies. In the near future Blast Theory will be offering residencies for artists at the company’s space in Portslade, Brighton.
Lectures (Audience: amateurs and professionals). Blast Theory offers a range of public presentations for the general public, students, academics, researchers and specialists.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008 Hungary, Greece: Rider Spoke
2008 Switzerland: Day Of The Figurines
2008 Brazil: Can You See Me Now?
2007 Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, Austria: Can You See Me Now?
2006 Berlin, Barcelona, Singapore: Day of the Figurines
2006 USA: Can You See Me Now?

TOURING AVAILABILITY
All productions (Rider Spoke, Day of the Figurines and Can You See Me Now?) available for touring 2009/2010/2011. Desert Rain available from April 2009.