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The Prairie of Possibilities

Burning Man 2023

Intro

The Prairie is about the transformational power of storytelling to generate empathy, inspire connection, and create a space us to reflect on what it truly means to be human.

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Layout

At Burning Man 2023, we enhanced the Prairie with a central platform, engraved with our glowing latin motto, for an elevated view of the glowing grasses.

Interactivity

To walk through the Prairie is to stroll through a metaphysical field that (for some mysterious reason) has briefly become visible to the human eye. Participants walk a gently-sloping path among swaying grasses, stroking the glowing fibers. The grass stalks are outfitted with an array of sensors that enable it to respond to participants’ behavior and demonstrate a sense of interactive ‘aliveness’. 

 

Interactive elements include the glowing Portals at the Prairie perimeter, hidden hot-spots in the platform that enable effects in the field, and the story-collector phone booths, collecting the stories that echo events back to participants in the field.

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Artists

Core team






Casey Marvin // Creative Director

James Gwertzman // Chief Visionary

Nathan Pegram / Hardware Director

Paul McDaniel // Technical Director

Collaborators

Angela Lee // Technical artist (audio)

Dirk Rosenberg // Technical artist (audio)

Erin O'Brien // Project Manager

Jessica Creane // Voice artist (stories shared by the entity)

Kendrick Feller // Technical light artist (real-time audio visualization)

Sarah Elmaleh // Voice artist lead (voice of the Entity)

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Builders

Angela Lee

Benjamin Gebo

Brian Axelrod

Casey Marvin

Craig Massie

Colleen Sullivan

Danielle Kushner

Dirk Roosenburg

Erin O'Brien // Project Manager

James Gwertzman // Build Lead

Julia Kester

Julia Heasler

Kendrick Feller

Nathan Pegram

Mykola Simutkin

Paul McDaniel

Quailynn McDaniel

Simone Engelen

Petri Anne

Tech

Tech specs TBD

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