TimeWave 2013

TimeWave is a new international festival that explores the fusion of theatre and technology.

Theater allowed you to imagine scenes anywhere in the world; film allowed you to see scenes anywhere in the world; TimeWave allows for scenes to occur anywhere in the world and for audiences to connect to those places. By using telepresence and broadcasting technologies, theatre from remote locales will be streamed into London, enabling audiences to travel around the world but never leave their seats.

"I am really looking forward to being a part of the TimeWave festival - I believe that all the artists involved aspire to set the bar higher for new writing and that the results will be at the cutting edge of storytelling and performance." Neil LaBute

Produced by LoNyLa, a global artists’ network fueled by graduates of Yale University, in partnership with Innovation Warehouse, a leading British accelerator for digital startups, and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City, TimeWave gathers audiences to experience a performance that is simultaneously theatrical, cinematic, and Internet-driven, and where audiences can contribute via social media.

TimeWave gathers over 75 artists from 10 nations, including the United Kingdom, United States, Russia, Ireland, Australia, Singapore, Spain, Nigeria, Romania and Italy. New work will be streamed in to the festival from New York City, Los Angeles, Madrid, Barcelona, Bucharest, Milan and Singapore.

The 2013 festival programme revolves around the theme of “Transformation” in the 21st century, a time of accelerating technological progress and web-enabled global artistic collaboration. In some plays, artists are using telepresence in which actors in different cities interact in the same play. In other pieces, audiences will interact with artists via social media tools, such as SMS inputs and Twitter posts, to create a theatrical experience. Each day of TimeWave will present a two-hour event, knitting together short pieces from playwrights and new media creators. Performances will unfold like water currents that form, in total, a wave.

Highlights of the festival include opening night performances of new work by Neil LaBute, Gary Duggan and Jonathan Lewis followed by a cocktail reception for artists and audiences, an improvised black comedy by David Simpatico in which Los Angeles and London artists discover the “Voice of Revolution” during a “riot,” a mirror poem by Alan Dunnett, Course Leader of MA Screen: Acting, Directing and Writing at Drama Centre London, Central Saint Martins and new plays by Paul Charlton, Maksym Kurochkin, Zainabu Jallo, Beatriz Cabur, Alexandra Gersten-Vassillaros, J Dakota Powell and Lachlan Philpott, a roving spy caper through New York City and London by the LoNyLa US/UK telepresence group and a Saturday night soiree.

A goal of TimeWave is to create a bridge between pioneer artists and the digital startup community. The 2013 festival will explore robotics, motion capture data, live video editing/broadcasting and 3D projection mapping. On Saturday, June 22, Demo Day will present a panel of artists and technologists who work on the digital frontier. Participants include robotics researcher Ad Spiers and Japanese artist Coco Sato, Internet broadcasting expert Eric Norrell, Rob and Matt Vale of Illuminos and Marie Proffit of body>data>space.

A “Best Impression from TimeWave 2013” photo contest will be conducted via www.award.io and sponsored by Naked Wines. award.io simplifies the process of organising photo contests and gives organisations global brand exposure. Photographers can win awards, easily participating in numerous contests and boosting their portfolio. Winning photos will be posted on the TimeWave website.

TimeWave is supported by the Arts Council England, Walt Disney Imagineering, Hathersage Capital Management, Telestream, Vidyo and Yelp.