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Trust Us (It Could Be Worse)

Live at The New Ohio Theater

in VR on VRChat / High Fidelity / Altspace

Trust Us (It Could Be Worse) was an improvised experiment where one player in each scene wore a VR headset that had them standing alone on stage in an empty digital theater. If improvisational performance is an exercise of trust between partners, Trust Us was a stress test. The improviser in VR hears laughter from the live audience, but only sees empty seats when they look out. How does a person make scenic discoveries inside of a computational render of a theater with nobody in it that can affect and respond do those discoveries being made by the other players and the live audience who are experiencing a slightly different parallel reality?

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Also it was a fuckin party.

Directed by Kevin Laibson 

Produced by Kevin Laibson, Agile Lens, David Gochfeld

Hosted by Kevin Laibson & Chris Booth as Calvin & Craig

with: Kimberly Alu, Eric Yearwood, Jeff Mondoro, Tamsi New, Rachel Scherer, Scott Benjamin, Steve Capps, AJ Ditty, Elke Reid, Joe Galan, Brad Stuart, Nate Foster, Josh Hurley, Timothy Thompson, Amanda Stafford

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This portfolio focuses on projects I feel I contributed significantly to as an artist or created whole cloth. Much of my experience includes developing and platforming others' work as a producer, teacher, and coach. For more about that, please visit kevinlaibson.com.
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this is my favorite joke:

A dog walks in to a telegrapher's office and says "I'd like to send a telegram to my sister, please."

 

The telegrapher, surprised by the situation, says "Well, um, okay - what would you like it to say?"
 

"Woof, woof woof, woof woof woof woof, woof, woof."
 

The telegrapher puts down his pencil and lowers his glasses a little, "You know, that's just nine 'woof's. I could throw in a tenth and it would be the same price."
 

The dog cocks his head to the side and says, "But...then it wouldn't make any sense."

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