Over spring break I was invited to travel with Performance Lab 115 to Budapest. Last summer I acted as production designer for their performance of Ashlin Halfnight’s God’s Waiting Room presented as part of the New York International Fringe Festival and which went on to win the Overall Excellence Award For Best Play. Their international tour of God’s Waiting Room to Budapest was accompanied by another new work from Ashlin Halfnight titled A Hush Hush Hidden Thing for which I also acted as production designer. The trip was a success for the company and my first work-related international travel. In the coming weeks I will be creating a short video for the company to send to its donors and sponsors.

After spending the past few weeks helping organize the DT spring show at Felissimo and installing BarTalk, the piece that I, along with Alexis Lloyd and Ana Velez, have in the show, it’s time for the opening.

Midtown’s a strange place and a whole different NY than I experience on a daily basis but if you’re up for it you can check out the show at the Felssimo Design House, 56th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues.

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Last semester I posted all of my notes on my blog. Many of these posts don’t make any sense to me now and I’m sure they’ll mean even less to anyone else. This semester I will attempt to post notes in a more complete form and will only post when necessary, not necessarily a post every class.

Possible “themes”:

Turning the tables on The New School
Tune in, turn on, drop by - develop concept

Brenda Laurel
Chair, Graduate Media Design Program, Art Center College, Pasadena, CA

Computers as Theater (book)

Design research (not market research)
-what to design

secondary research:
- literature surveys
- expert interviews

human centered:
- quantitative / qualitative
- ethnographic

formal research:
- designing findings for discovery
- design as research

How do you stage a transmedia experience?

brands as signifiers for persona creation
tweens want to tokenize or tangiblize their music

www.artcenter.edu/mdp