Rituals and Games for our Next Civilization
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<!----------------------------------------------------------------> ## Other theater projects and online/offline games #### Performances and Events * **Pantheon** - a theater piece for 12 actors that need to be unlocked by the audience. In *Pantheon*, every actor gets a binder of games to play and stories to exchange with audience members, and makes a secret decision before the show about what kind of presentation from an audience member will wake them from silence. The binders are being collaboratively written. [Join us!](https://hackpad.com/PANTHEON-iLG8ZLrtOIu) * **Northampton Adventure Exchange** (2007) -- Residents of the small town of Northampton, MA filled out an online form where they specified a kind of quality they wanted to have added to their lives. The choices included "surprise", "peace and quiet", "danger", "challenge", "warmth", etc. They also reported their schedules. A massive potluck was held once a week in which 30+ people attempted to pair up people from the database and make adventures for them to go on together which related to their desires. * **Continuous Play** (2008)—A performance collaboration with choreographer <a href="http://www.inmixedcompany.com/">Maura Donohue</a> in which the audience switches from passive to very active performers, directed via SMS, over the course of the evening. (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/inmixedcompany/2291504845/">photos</a>) #### Online Installations and Games * **Invoke** (2000)— Web/physical installation. A gift-exchange community was created. Participants were making, hiding, and finding postcards in back pages of low-circulation books in the San Francisco public library. Each user would enter the call number and page of a book within which he or she would like to receive a postcard, and within a week another user would place one there. * **Yenta** - *down for the moment, help me get it back up* - an webapp that watches the twitter public feed for people that feel "bored" or are asking for something from "anyone". When it finds two people who are both bored at the same time and live near one another, it asks the user if they'd like to suggest something for both people to do together. This becomes a double @reply introducing the pair. The user scores a point if their suggestion drives engagement between the two.
