UPLOAD/UNPLUG
A live gaming experience where your choices become data,
uploaded to shape a new human being.
Do you use a mobile phone or computer every day?
How much personal data do you give away each day to navigate your digital life?
Could you unplug, even if you wanted to?
Digital dance company Pell Ensemble
invites you into the world of EPOQ:
A live gaming experience where your choices become data, uploaded to shape a new human being.
On entering the space you will meet David, ready to be brought to life by your data.
From the safety of your seat and through a custom-built app on a mobile device, your every tap, swipe and swirl will inform who David becomes.
Through your input, David experiences the joy, fear and complexity of being human.
But at what cost - will your data be put to good use?
And what happens to it once the experience is over?
Upload or unplug – it’s your choice.
TOUR
The work has toured internationally, presenting at such places as
Athens Digital Arts Festival (Athens, Greece)
Frequency Festival (Lincoln, UK)
Rich Mix (London, UK)
Guildhall Arts Centre (Grantham, UK)
Exeter Phoenix (Exeter, UK)
Arc Stockton (Stockton, UK)
Redbridge Drama Centre (London, UK)
CREDITS
Direction and Choreography
Rebecca Evans
Lead Creative Technologist
Simon Haenggi (Visual Pilots)
Back End App Development:
Owen Hindley (Huldufugl)
Front End App Development:
Alexander Wallin
Original music and sound
Ehud Freedman
Dramaturgy and Text
Adam Peck
Art Direction and Animation
David Altweger
Video
Alice Underwood
Images
David Griffiths
Electric Egg courtesy of Frequency Festival
Co-Produced by Helix Arts, Co-Commissioned by Bedford Creative Arts, Produced by Step Out Arts, supported by partners Creative Darlington, Metal Peterborough, Arc Stockton, Teesside University, Redbridge Drama Centre, Edge Arts/University of Bath, Visual Pilots, Huldufugl, and supported using public funding through
Arts Council England.
Narrative and Creative Design elements contributed by
Alex Hoban, Ray Cheung, Clarisse ODell and John Kavanagh
Producer
Jih Wen Yeh: Step Out Arts
Associate Producer
Victoria Eyton
Company Manager
Tim Chew
Photography and video for stage and app
Mira Loew
Set Design
Clarisse O'Dell
"Paranoid Android" by Radiohead,
performed by Threeds
"Paranoid Android" by Radiohead,
performed by El Ten Eleven