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Jo Cattell

Theater Maker

Jo Cattell (theatre maker) is a leading voice in the convergence of live theatre and immersive technologies. Her work has appeared at Sundance Film Festival, the BBC, Sky Television, Cirque du Soleil, and multiple US and London theaters. She is a member of the LightPoets digital and immersive theatre collective, whose immersive graphic novel, SPEED OF DARK, recently opened in downtown Las Vegas. LightPoets also created the opening performance for TED 2022 demonstrating an onstage metaverse where the audience witnessed a world-first syncing of AR over 1400 devices and live streamed AR with performance around the globe. Cattell adapted Shakespeare’s KING LEAR into an AR immersive theatrical experience in collaboration with San Francisco State University's Fabula(b). She is a 3Arts awardee, a Joan Mitchell Center Fellow, a 2021 Illinois Artist Fellow and a Perkins Coie awardee. Cattell was the Maggio Directing Fellow at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, with whom she is currently collaborating with the world-renowned Electronic Visualization Lab at the University of Illinois to create HUMMINGBIRD, an immersive theatrical experience with VR. Cattell is head of content and cocreator at Kaleidoco, an innovative technology company blending digital with physical experience, and is currently building an AR mobile adventure that will be launched in 2023.

 

 

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There are 5 people depicted in Virtual Reality head sets. Behind them is a large screen showing a Japanese cherry orchard, a red sun, a bridge and snow-capped mountains. HUMMINGBIRD, a live immersive performance with virtual reality in collaboration with Daria Tsoupikova, Arthur Nishimoto, Sai Priya Jyothula, Lance Long and Andy Johnson. Photo by Lance Long and Daria Tsoupikova

Featured Artworks

  • A woman and man riding on top of the red TED logo, which has been turned into a rocket ship and is flying through space TED2022: A New Era Ekenah Claudin & Dani Maloney Projection mapped performance
  • Audience all holding up iPads which they watch a live performance with augmented reality through at TED2022 conference. . TED2022: A New Era Augmented reality in live performance
  • An acrobatic pole dancer spinning and hanging upside down on a pole of a 4-poster bed. Projection mapping paints the image with lilac, pinks and blues. SPEED OF DARK, Particle Ink in Las Vegas Natsumi Miyazaki as Lilith An immersive graphic novel
  • Nighttime and a full-blue moon hangs in the sky behind a black man who towers over skyscrapers. Dark, brooding and graphic-novel like. KING Edmund Act 1 Scene 2 from KING Photo by Christopher Marston An adaptation of Shakespeare's KING LEAR
  • Three intimidating figures, one sitting and two standing by an armchair wearing black suits and day of the dead make up. Blood trails from them and out of the photo. Don Chipotle music videos Don Chipotle music videos Photo by Joel Maisonette Based on Juan Villa's DON CHIPOTLE
  • The interior of a human artery with red fleshy walls. A red blood cell appears through the artery wall to address the audience, a group of young kids who are surprised by the blood cells appearance. EPIC TALE OF SCALE at Chicago Children's Theatre Inside the artery Immersive theatre performance
  • Jo Cattell artwork THE DISPLACED by Isaac Gomez, Haven Theatre Karen Rodriguez as Marissa Psychological Horror