Office of Everyone

Talking creative access in The Whale on the BBC🐋 Exploring how spatial creative captioning in The Whale placed access at the heart of the artistic process. Read more about The Whale via like in bio (officeofeveryone.com) @bengglover @esjayclark

This #worldbookday discover The Whale: An Experimental Theatre Experience. Only this weekend at FRAMELESS, step inside a first-of-its-kind immersive retelling of Moby Dick. Tickets via link in bio. From the minds of @officeofeveryone and @raucouscaucous #theatre #londontheatre #westend #londonhotspots

Fusing live performance and immersive technology 🐋 “The Whale” is a new experimental theatre experience @framelessldn from 6 to 8 March Co-Directed by our MA Digital Direction Tutor (Research) Jack Hardiker-Bresson @jackhardiker and Playwright and Creative Director of Raucous, Sharon Clark @esjayclark . The Whale brings the classic novel Moby-Dick to life through a new hybrid form of immersive theatre. A specially developed system of spatial creative captioning weaves text directly into the projected environment, making language part of the landscape. The Whale is one of just nine projects selected for the Expand category of the Immersive Arts Prize, chosen from more than 2,500 applications nationwide. @bengglover – Creative Captioning @___riyamahajan – Lead 3D Visual Artist Joseph Whitmore @studio.ubl – VFX Supervisor @rian.stephens – Creative Technologist Helen Skiera @helenskisound – Sound Design Shankho Chaudhuri @shankho_c – Physical Design Ryan Joseph Stafford @rjs_ld – Lighting Design Phil Kay @philipkaymakesmusic – Musical Score Keegan Curran @keeganjcurran – Production Manager Harshadha Balasubramanian – Access Creative Produced by Office of Everyone and Raucous Supported by Immersive Arts, Royal College of Art and University of West England #MobyDick #ImmersiveExperience #Art

Introducing The Whale. A bold new immersive theatre experience. Premiering at FRAMELESS from 6 to 8 March, this experimental show by @officeofeveryone and @raucouscaucous introduces a new form of creative captioning, making theatre more accessible and dynamic than ever before. Step inside the classic tale of Moby Dick and become part of the story. Tickets for the limited showcase run are available now via the link in bio. @dcrcuk @jackhardiker @esjayclark @helenskisound @studio.ubl @philipkaymakesmusic @rian.stephens @shankho_c @___riyamahajan @rjs_ld @keeganjcurran @cssdlondon @sung_hoooon @rca_digitaldirection @rcasoc

A big moment for The Whale 🐋 Last week we ran our first full-size content tests, exploring the visual treatment and animated movement of water, as well as the cueing and fidelity of our custom creative captions system. Next: we bring in the physical set, actors, and Spatial Audio! Created with @esjayclark @jackhardiker and our amazing team (all tagged), and funded by @immersivearts_uk - Video description: A montage of scenes inside a large-scale projection space showing various animated ocean environments. Waves and ocean textures shift in style and color across the room. Interspersed are large text screens that display messages in different font sizes. Audio description: Ethereal whale song created using various string instruments. #immersive #theatre #projection #accessibility

We had a blast introducing our new @immersivearts_uk funded project, The Whale, to industry peers at @bfilff ! From an oddball idea born while working on the @rca_digitaldirection shows at @framelessldn to speaking at the London Film Festival…IS WILD. So proud of the team! Thanks @uschrauth for curating such a supportive space. Great to see so many old and new friends. Now we have to finish the thing @esjayclark

Thanks to support from @immersivearts_uk , we’re bringing The Whale to life! This immersive reimagining of Moby Dick is co-created by Jack Hardiker-Bresson (Office of Everyone) and Sharon Clark (Raucous). The Whale explores dynamic relationships between ecological themes, physical environments, 180° projection, and spatial creative captioning by @bengglover - offering powerful new ways for deaf and hearing-impaired audiences to engage with immersive narratives. (Link in bio)

🐋 A reimagining of Moby Dick, blending digital and physical worlds in large-scale projection environments from our MA Digital Direction Tutor (Research), Jack Hardiker-Bresson @jackhardiker is one of 9 UK projects awarded a £50,000 expanded grant by Immersive Arts UK in their first round of funding! The Whale is an immersive reimagining of Moby Dick designed for live audiences, brought to life by Jack Hardiker-Bresson (@officeofeveryone ) and Sharon Clark (@raucouscaucous ). This innovative project cultivates dynamic relationships between digital projection, physical environments, and spatial creative captioning, offering new ways for deaf and hearing-impaired audiences to engage with immersive narratives. Massive congratulations to our @rcaanimation graduate @wen_ben who has won a grant in the Experimental category too! 👏👏👏 #ImmersiveArt #ImmersiveTech #Art #DigitalArt #DigitalArtist

🐋 We’re excited to finally share that we have been awarded Expand funding from @immersivearts_uk for our new project ‘The Whale’. With our collaborator @raucouscaucous we’re looking forward to exploring new relationships between physical and digital worlds, and new spatial modes of creative captioning with @bengglover . BTS film by @sung_hoooon (project link in bio) #ImmersiveArtsUK #ExpandFund

‘Through the Cracks’ @guardian “Best Theatre to Stream this Month”!! 👀 Download free in bio Transcript: Rip up your floorboards – with the assistance of augmented reality – to watch a world of drama unfold beneath your feet with this app created by Office of Everyone and English Touring Theatre. Each tale centres on someone who has disappeared through the cracks in some way; the first, In Time, is a queer romance written by Sonali Bhattacharyya, narrated by Ian McKellen and starring the ever-excellent Sophie Melville. Available now.

Amazing news! ‘Through the Cracks’ has won the inaugural Meta Morph Award, celebrating the exciting collaboration between my studio, @officeofeveryone , and theatre company @englishtouringtheatre . 👀 Download free in bio.

Through the Cracks is now available to download! This brand new free Augmented Reality app shares untold stories of people whose tales have fallen - both figuratively and literally - through the cracks. Using the app on your smartphone or tablet, you will see a virtual crack appear on the physical floor beneath you. Through this crack, you will watch and listen to a story unfold beneath your feet. This method of presenting stories through Augmented Reality has the quality of an intimate performance that can be experienced anywhere. Co-created by Office of Everyone’s Jack Hardiker and ETT’s Artistic Director Richard Twyman, the instalment is written by Sonali Bhattacharyya. Jennifer Bakst directs Ian McKellen (Narrator), Sophie Melville (Milly), Annabel Baldwin (Patricia/Pearl), and Dorothea Myer-Bennet (Maggie).  Senior AR developer and 3D artist: Antek Jancelewicz Download links in bio ⬆️ #WeAreETT #OfficeOfEveryone #ARTheatre #ianmckellen