Immersive Creatives: Adrian Hon Joins Traverse Theatre – Announces Events For 2025
Immersive Creatives: Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre has announced that Adrian Hon, the former CEO and founder of Zombies Run studio Six To Start has joined the organisation as an Associate Artist, giving the theatre a new focus on immersive technologies and experiences.
A new programme of Immersive Creatives events and panel discussions have been announced, running across 2025.
The next of these takes place on Tuesday, March 18th. It features Adrian and Clare Duffy, the Artistic Director of Civic Digits theatre company, discussing the company’s participatory, immersive performances and Konx-om-Pax (aka Tom Scholefield) on his real-time synaesthetic audio-visual shows.
The event is free. Tickets are available here.
Dr Clare Duffy is the artistic director of Civic Digits:
Civic Digits is a data-driven creative learning theatre company that creates participant-led, immersive performances. The work focuses on empowering young people, their families, communities, institutions, and ultimately society to think critically about the dangers of data-driven technology, to protect themselves and others, and to fully benefit from its opportunities.
Clare created Many Good Men in February 2024 at Hearts Football Club after co-writing it with two groups of young people in Edinburgh. Many Good Men is a piece of digital forum theatre addressing the radicalisation of masculinity, incel culture and the manosphere. “Essential viewing for our time, not only for young people but for everyone who cares about their future.” ★★★★ THE SCOTSMAN
Civic Digits also created The Big Data Show a digitally interactive live and hybrid performance about privacy, hacking and the value of data, which over 4000 young people ages 10 – 13 have participated in since 2017. It is part of the accredited course: “An Introduction to Cyber Resilience and Digital Citizenship”. Other on-going projects include Bad Actor and A.I and Planet Earth.
Konx-om-Pax is Glasgow-based composer and visual Artist Tom Scholefield
2012 saw the release of his first full-length album on Planet Mu titled “Regional Surrealism, followed by Caramel (2016), Ways of Seeing (2019). Caramel was short-listed for Scottish Album of the Year in 2017
Refresher EP (2019) title track Cascada featured in the Chanel Spring-Summer 2018 Haute Couture Show. In 2020 Return to Cascada EP was released and featured a remix by Skee Mask which received support from Four Tet and Mary Anne Hobbes.
As a performing artist, Tom has collaborated on Audio Visual live shows with Kode 9, Hudson Mohawke (Warp Records) and Lone (R&S Records). He curated an evening of music at Berlin Atonal Festival 2018 called “Contemporary Hardcore” which showcased cutting-edge visuals with classic rave music. In 2019 he toured “Ways of Seeing” live show around festivals in Europe including Mira (Barcalona) and Redbull Music Festival (Istanbul).
2020 also saw the release of “Astronomical Objects”, a long-form dreamlike ambient album that caught the attention of Wise Music.
Adrian Hon said:
Theatre has been the trailblazer for “immersive experiences” throughout history, from installation art and site-specific performance to virtual reality games and live action role playing. I’m incredibly excited to work with the Traverse in exploring where theatre can lead us next in the rapidly-growing immersive universe.
Book your ticket for the March 2025 Immersive Creatives event here.
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