Medea
Technology
Virtual-Venu
Custom Software
Web Sockets
Online Interactions
Date
March 2024
Collaborators
CultureHub NYC
LaMaMa
Medea is a borderless Tekhne Epic for live audiences in person and online conceived by La MaMa's Great Jones Repertory Company, CultureHub, and Zishan Ugurlu. The epic tells the story of Medea, a refugee whose reality is shattered when she learns of her and her children's looming exile, investigating parallels between the myth and the current refugee crisis by collaging real stories, ancient tongues, and hackable audiovisual systems.
The livestream was produced using LiveLab Broadcaster, a browser based low-latency livestreaming platform that allows for real time interactions with online audiences. The open-source project is supported and used by CultureHub and NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.
