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Keynote Performance: Foxdog Studios (UK)
Foxdog Studios, Lloyd Henning and Peter Sutton, are computer programmers turned live performers. They create comedy shows that put the audience in control of interactive games and DIY gadgets. Their live show, “Robot Chef”, was a sell-out at the Edinburgh Fringe and had viewers cook sausage and beans by controlling a robot on their phones (a highlight being firing a hotdog from a cannon). Bingo meets tech in their latest project “Robo Bingo”, their interactive take on the game is combined with robots, comedy and chaos. The Guardian UK said “The lo-fi tech wizardry is ingenious, and it’s irresistible fun to play along”. As seen on Channel 4 UK, featured in WIRED Magazine UK and heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Listed in The Independent's Best of the Fringe. Winners best show at Leicester Comedy Festival, nominated for the Chortle Award for Innovation and two Malcolm Hardee Awards.
Keywords: game, play, performance, interactive, music
Afternoon topic: Constructive utopia (Play)
Playful interactions, storytelling, and game dynamics are among the most powerful influences on the human mind. Let's step into the impressive dimensions of large-scale installations and immerse ourselves in the connection between cognition, control, and technology.
The phenomenon of play is (seemingly) a light-hearted way of fascination with the world, order, chaos and the joy of the sheer play of forms, but also of cognition. The interactivity of computer games or objects, like the fusion of monumental static architectural structures with moving images, are valuable ways to tap into positive energy. Play is not only a way of education, but also of ancient rituals in which the duality of light and darkness has always played a central role. Fairy tales, stories, metaphors, parables, dramatic light séances lead to a balance of the elements.
