Lovely interview from Jed Gottlieb Boston Herald with our "Life of Pi" Associate Puppetry and Movement Director, #ScarletWilderink on the demands (and joys) of the show on the puppeteers. #LifeofPiART bostonherald.com/2022/11/27/lif…

A little peek inside the rehearsal studio for Life of Pi featuring interviews with the puppet design team. Some great clips showing us stitching together some of the physical sequences in the show. #lifeofPiART youtube.com/watch?v=nOX4hG…

A lovely shoutout to “Life of Pi” and the power of puppetry and collective creation in Boston Herald’s year end theater review. Boston's theater season sizzled in 2022 - here are 5 standouts bostonherald.com/2022/12/25/bos… #LifeofPiART

Episode 8 of @tangiblehopeproject my #documentary #webseries is out and we’re going to #Denver! Give it a watch. By the end of it, you just may be contemplating making a move to the Mile High City yourself. youtu.be/o2AFAlx_KoU

Some really awesome footage from our press day at #LifeofPiBway. We demoed how we created the choreography for this sequence by layering on elements one at a time. With #HiranAbeysekera as Pi #BetsyRosen and #NikkiCalonge with me as the tiger.

Check out this excellent segment on #lifeofpibway. Being inside of the show, I forget how unique it is as a piece of theater and kinetic storytelling. A huge thank you to Jamie Wax and the whole CBS Saturday Morning team for highlighting the magic and hardwork behind the puppetry.

Excited to be a judge on #SingTank with a great group of other #Broadway veterans & investors. Tomorrow, May 12 @ 11am PT. Check out the latest #ApplesAndOrangesArts' THEatre ACCELERATOR cohort of new musicals that are integrating XR by watching LIVE on lnkd.in/ePGph6zD#Broad…

My students UMD Immersive Media Design are using Snapchat's Lens Studio to build AR experiences this summer. So I thought I would check it out and build a special lens for fans of the Broadway production of LIFE OF PI (I'm a puppeteer in the production). Link to lens snapchat.com/unlock/?type=S…

A shoutout to #MarylandToday's #KarenShih for the article about UMD Immersive Media Design's New Works Incubator. This year’s cohort of student creators is working with interactive projection projects, #VR, #AR, and sensor-based projects just to name a few! today.umd.edu/summ-ar-immers…

That’s a wrap on UMD Immersive Media Design's New Works Incubator program! Our 3rd summer generated a dozen new #immersivemedia projects by students from across #UniversityofMaryland's campus.

Back in the “lab” with #DanceXDance UMD Immersive Media Design . Prototyping new ways to run the robot and track on sculptural elements-as well as the dancer. Added a motion sensor to translate the dancer digitally. Choreo #AdrianeFang Music #SamCrawford Robots Huaishu Peng

Just published this Medium article about my experience teaching augmented reality design over the past few years. Hope it will be a conversation starter for anyone creating experiential works of AR or interested in training new talent for the medium. medium.com/@jondavidmarti…

Honored to be featured on the latest episode of the Internet of Senses Institute podcast, hosted by Joel L Garrison. We talk spatial storytelling, teaching AR design, puppetry and VR, and a whole lot more. youtube.com/watch?v=fIfCdM… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jon… . .

If you’re in the #DC area, come check out DANCE x DANCE, an interactive dance and robotics project I’m directing at #UniversityofMaryland. 9/12 at 7pm, Art & Sociology Building. theclarice.umd.edu/events/2023/ne…

Back in the virtual theater with #GumballDreams XR DREAMLAND - Kaohsiung Film Festival. A delight to perform across time and space from my studio in LA for an audience both virtually and physically a world away. Thx Ferryman Collective, @DeirdreVLyons , and Christopher Davis for creating such a beautiful show

If you’re lucky, your students will tell you how much they learned in your class. If you’re really lucky they’ll tell the press about it. arhu.umd.edu/news/david-oba… UMD Immersive Media Design #DavidObajemu #XR #AR #highered

Delighted to be interviewed for #BoldJourney this past month. We dive into the qualities that have kept me going as a creative, my work across the performing arts, #XR, and higher ed, and how a teacher taught me to see the world in profound ways. boldjourney.com/news/meet-jona…

For #Niantic’s #Lightship #RealWorldARChallenge, I led a team to build an MVP of “Low Carbon Labs,” an #AR ed game. Players must build carbon capture systems to lower the CO2 level in their environment. With #ChristopherMaxey, #XioahanWu, #MollyCarroll. youtube.com/watch?v=zQcCq2…

Open Call for “Future Frames,” a juried exhibition of AI-generated posters and short films that I’m co-curating. Deadline for submissions is August 31st. artu.us #AI #graphicdesign #film #aifilm #exhibition