The Voxel Is a Cutting-Edge Theater Experiment(bmoreart.com)
29 pointsby simonw8 days ago4 comments
  • fishtoaster3 days ago
    I'm a big fan of this genre of "a person got rich in tech and spent their wealth making an unrelated thing they wanted to exist in the world, untethered from the need to be profitable or self-sustaining."

    See also, Jamie Zawinski's DNA Lounge[0] in San Francisco

    [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_Lounge

  • simonw8 days ago
    Posting this here as a reminder that you can build a successful software company and use that to fund a cutting-edge experimental art and performance space under the cover of "it's a research lab".

    The Voxel doesn't even take a cut of ticket sales - it's completely free for the accepted artists to use: https://voxel.org/artist-residencies/

    Tech specs here: https://voxel.org/technical-information/manual/

    • ultrattronic2 days ago
      Well I mean it’s not a stretch at all for this specific company…a theater like this is a perfect testbed for QLab
      • simonw2 days ago
        That's the beauty of this: QLab clearly do need a lab space... but they maybe don't need that space to be this beautifully designed and then have it run as a whole theater with artist collaborations like this.

        I find the whole thing hugely inspiring. Chris is one of my new entrepreneurial heroes.

        • aplsoftwaredev2 days ago
          Thanks for sharing! I live in baltimore and have ridden my bike past this place multiple times and didn't know what it was. I asked my wife and her friend who is in the studio scene has done performances there.
    • DonHopkins3 days ago
      Department of Research Simulation
  • keeganpoppen3 days ago
    that place is absolutely gorgeous. like it or not, The Sphere is an amazing… cultural artifact, and stuff like this is absolutely the future.
  • ge962 days ago
    Was thinking literal voxel eg. game engine