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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 29, 2005
Closed Dec 3, 2005

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http://www.bam.org

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

The Builders Association returns to BAM with Super Vision, a multimedia theater collaboration with the multidisciplinary design studio, dbox, following the popular and critical success of Alladeen. This piece explores how peoples' identities seem to be increasingly dependent on, and constituted by, the cloud of data -- from credit card purchases to email messages to medical records -- that surrounds each person. Conceived and created by The Builders Association and dbox, set design by Stewart Laing, text by Constance De Jong, and video design by Peter Flaherty.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



BAM Harvey Theater
651 Fulton St
New York, NY 11217


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Before Super Vision begins, one of its characters delivers a curtain speech, but not the now-standard one reminding us to turn off our cell phones and unwrap cellophane-packaged candies. Instead, she gives us demographic information about the audience, gleaned from the credit card purchases of our tickets. We are told that those seated in the front orchestra at BAM's Harvey Theater make an average of $50,000 more per year than those in the balcony, who are identified in this survey as a "multi-culti mosaic." This and other insights, the speaker reveals, have been gathered by Claritas, the same organization that works for Coca Cola and the U.S. government.

Once again, the Builders Associati[...]


Reviewed by Adam Klasfeld on Nov 30, 2005

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