Playing a key role in this mix was a collection of CHAUVET Professional Maverick and COLORado fixtures, which, like the rest of the rig, was supplied by 4Wall Entertainment. We even opened more seating by compressing the FOH area.”ĭierson and his team called upon an impressive collection of lighting fixtures, video panels and scenic elements to fill the big venue with visuals that would immerse all fans in the performances, whether they were sitting in the audience or watching via livestream. “Ultimately we configured the rig to provide good views to everyone seated within a 270-degree radius of the stage. “We wanted to ensure that every seat in the house received a high visual value for their ticket purchase,” said Dierson. To accommodate the larger crowd, the design team began angling each of the production elements to create a more rounded look to the overall production at the LA Forum. “Upon hearing that tickets sold out so quickly, we immediately realised that we were going to have to expand the production experience to a much wider audience, as there would be even more seating areas opened for extra ticket sales,” said Patrick Dierson of The Activity, which created the lighting rig for the Capital One sponsored concert, featuring artists like Coldplay, All Time Low, Imagine Dragons, Måneskin, among others. A thrilling response, no doubt, for producers, Diversified Production Services, Firehouse Productions, and All Access Staging and Productions, as well as everyone else associated with the event, but one that also necessitated some adjustments to the stage design. Tickets for the inaugural iHeartRadio ALTer EGO 2022 concert were gobbled up by eager fans within 20 minutes of going on sale. Michael Stumpf studied philosophy at the University of Vienna and now is an artist, designer and cultural theorist.CHAUVET Professional Maverick and COLORado fixtures play a key role in the iHeartRadio ALTer EGO 2022 lighting rig, supplied by 4Wall Entertainment. Robin Klengel works in Graz and Vienna as an interdisciplinary artist, illustrator, cultural anthropologist and vice president of the Forum Stadtpark. Leonhard Müllner works as an artist in the public and digital space and is currently writing his doctoral thesis at the Linz Art University at the Institute for Art and Cultural Studies. Moving within games but ignoring the intended gameplay, Total Refusal allocates these resources to new activities and narratives, in order to create “public” spaces imbued with critical, even subversive potential. In their practice, they critically analyze and appropriate digital game spaces and recontextualize them. Total Refusal is Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, and Michael Stumpf. This weird phenomenon is known to persist in the players’ subconscious and to resurface in their dreams, like a curse. Featherfall focuses on the archetypal nightmare of falling, which in video games is often exacerbated by a recurring programming error otherwise known as a glitch which causes the player’s alter ego to suddenly disappear beneath the surface, plummeting into a void. In their psychoanalytic examination sui generis, Austrian collective Total Refusal (Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf) suggest that games and dreams have much in common. Adopting the format of the video essay, the project began as an investigation of the relationship between game playing and dreaming, a recurrent topic in video game forums. Originally conceived as a video installation, Featherfall is presented on VRAL as a single channel machinima. FEATHERFALL Digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 10’ 21”, 2019 (Austria) Created by Total Refusal (Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf), 2019 Introduced by Matteo Bittanti