Forget phone-taps and email hacks, what if someone could invade your very mind? In The Institute, participants must work together to free the mind of a brainwashed special agent, while a shadowy intelligence agency and a secretive research institute both vie for the knowledge trapped within it. Part puzzle game, part multimedia theater, The Institute allows players to explore a surreal mental landscape, while forcing them to confront questions about power, privacy, security, and the murky shades of grey between them.
The Institute featured both live performance...
...and recorded media.
Not only did participants interact with cast members...
...they also solved puzzles involving tangible elements such as photographs...
...documents...
...bottles of unidentified scents...
...and even a custom-made music box that only plays the correct song when assembled in the right way.
Press
The Brooklyn Paper
American Bazaar
The Brooklyn Daily
ITP at NYU-Tisch
Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College
The Institute was performed at the Game Play Festival 2015, at the Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
Written and Directed By
Sharang Biswas & Clio Davis
Sharang Biswas & Clio Davis
Created By
Clio Davis, Sharang Biswas, Kyle Greenberg, Erin Finnegan, Monique Naoum, Yu Ji, Michelle Chandra
World by
Sharang Biswas, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Pierre Depaz and Adam Jackrel
Starring
Vincent Cooper, Corey Roberts, Charlyn Brea, Melissa Mejias Parker, Nick Tyson, Nicholas Hubbard, Clara F Pagone, Jerllin Cheng, Andres Taracuik, Amelia Winger-Bearskin
Cinematography
Nick Tyson, Jerllin Cheng
Editing
Jerllin Chencg, Clio Davis, Sharang Biswas
Physical Computing
Jonathan Sparks
Lighting
Elizabeth M Stewart
Projections and Animation
Melissa Mejias Parker, Kyle Greenberg, Sharang Biswas
Sound
Kyle Greenberg, Clio Davis
Graphic Design
Monique Naoum
Music
“Brian’s Song” written by Clio Davis, Performed by Clio Davis and Corey Roberts
"Mistake the Getaway", “Clean Soul” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Special Thanks
Shawn Van Every, Andrew Lazarow, Gabe Barcia-Colombo
Made Possible by the ITP-Google Experiments in Storytelling Grant
Clio Davis, Sharang Biswas, Kyle Greenberg, Erin Finnegan, Monique Naoum, Yu Ji, Michelle Chandra
World by
Sharang Biswas, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Pierre Depaz and Adam Jackrel
Starring
Vincent Cooper, Corey Roberts, Charlyn Brea, Melissa Mejias Parker, Nick Tyson, Nicholas Hubbard, Clara F Pagone, Jerllin Cheng, Andres Taracuik, Amelia Winger-Bearskin
Cinematography
Nick Tyson, Jerllin Cheng
Editing
Jerllin Chencg, Clio Davis, Sharang Biswas
Physical Computing
Jonathan Sparks
Lighting
Elizabeth M Stewart
Projections and Animation
Melissa Mejias Parker, Kyle Greenberg, Sharang Biswas
Sound
Kyle Greenberg, Clio Davis
Graphic Design
Monique Naoum
Music
“Brian’s Song” written by Clio Davis, Performed by Clio Davis and Corey Roberts
"Mistake the Getaway", “Clean Soul” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Special Thanks
Shawn Van Every, Andrew Lazarow, Gabe Barcia-Colombo
Made Possible by the ITP-Google Experiments in Storytelling Grant