#28 Most People Think The Medium Matters with Noah Nelson of No Proscenium

What is immersive entertainment? Oh my word, does anybody know?? When someone asks you what you did Saturday night, what is the 2 second explanation? I went to see this movie, I went to dinner at x place, I went to this concert. These work because everyone knows what the movie, dinner, the concert experience is. The experience is the medium, the method of communication. You don’t have to work to come up with that mental image. 

This reeeeally doesn’t work with immersive entertainment, which puts Immersion Nation, and our guest in a genuinely difficult position. Because we’re both on a mutual mission to explain the unexplainable. Our guest is the founder of No Proscenium, an immersive entertainment publication and hotbed of wisdom and support for the immersive community. Noah Nelson is here to help you and me understand why Immersive entertainment is so hard to define, and ultimately, why that might not event the goal we should be trying for.

Selected Links:

No Proscenium
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Facebook

Everything Immersive Facebook Group
No Proscenium Podcast

HERE summit
The Rendon
Vampire of the masquerade
Jay Bushman
Sarah Thacher
Candle House Collective
Dead Play

Show Notes:

HERE summit [2:39]
Immersive music proper [3:10]
Chosen fictional world [8:43]
Wreck it Ralph Breaks VR [12:11]
*Spoiler* Into the Spider Verse [13:43]
The ‘I’ word: Immersive [15:26]
The Transmedia wars [17:04]
The Origins of Noah the Nelson [20:04]
“What I like about the field right now… What I worry about” [21:32]
What is immersive? real for just a moment [22:57]
The medium doesn’t matter [24:07]
Lowering the impedance[27:22]