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Last week, we told you about how artist Brody Condon got a Rhizome grant to do a play based on William Gibson's cyberpunk classic Neuromancer, which he would be staging at a barn in rural Missouri with a cast taken from a local Baptist Church amateur drama group. Condon's other art is equally wonderful and bizarre, often including recreations of video game fights acted out by members of the Society for Creative Anachronism. I caught up with Condon via e-mail, and found out that he's actually in the middle of staging his biggest, strangest mashup of art and gaming yet. More »
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If I were to tell you that a theatrical version of William Gibson's famous novel Neuromancer was going to be performed in a rural Missouri town, starring a radical leftist activist and members of an amateur theater troupe from a local Baptist church, what would you say? It probably wouldn't be: "Yeah, and wouldn't it be great if all the cyberspace scenes were done with cardboard cutouts that people move around on stage, accompanied by Indonesian Gamelan music?" And yet that's exactly what Brody Condon is going to do, next summer, with grant money from the Rhizome Foundation. I know it sounds insane, and that's precisely the point. More »
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