Digital Works Podcast

Episode 023 - Annette Mees (Audience Labs) on technology in cultural experiences, and hyper-reality opera

September 08, 2022 Season 1 Episode 23
Digital Works Podcast
Episode 023 - Annette Mees (Audience Labs) on technology in cultural experiences, and hyper-reality opera
Show Notes

A conversation with Annette Mees, Annette is an award-winning artistic director, creative producer and cultural strategist.

Annette used to be Artistic Director of Coney (an award-winning company of adventure and play which put the audience at the centre of every experience), she ran Audience Labs at the Royal Opera House. She is currently Artistic Director of Audience Labs & Visiting Senior Research Fellow in Culture and Creative Industries at King's College London, and is also the Chair of the FutureEverything a year-round cultural programme, that brings people together to discover, share and experience new ideas for the future.

We discuss the use of technology in cultural experiences, we also discuss Current, Rising which is a hyper-reality opera that Annette made whilst at ROH (I discussed this project in Episode 018 with Eva Liparova, who was a producer on the project, listen to that conversation).