Jonathan D Martin

Director and performer of VR/XR, immersive theater, documentaries, and artistic mischief. Co-Artistic Director, Smoke & Mirrors Collaborative.

[Jonathan D Martin @JonDavidMartin]

Check out this fantastic behind the scenes look at "DANCE x DANCE" that #EricKruszewski produced and shot along with #LauncelotLin for the “Enterprise: University of Maryland Research Stories” series.
https://t.co/AjHjxMWU6p

#interactive #choreorobotics #UMD

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Open Call for “Future Frames,” a juried exhibition of AI-generated posters and short films that I’m co-curating. Deadline for submissions is August 31st. https://t.co/feyRaVdjZC #AI #graphicdesign #film #aifilm #exhibition

[Jonathan D Martin @JonDavidMartin]

For #Niantic’s #Lightship #RealWorldARChallenge, I led a team to build an MVP of “Low Carbon Labs,” an #AR ed game. Players must build carbon capture systems to lower the CO2 level in their environment. With #ChristopherMaxey, #XioahanWu, #MollyCarroll.
https://t.co/ydqFChus4a

[Jonathan D Martin @JonDavidMartin]

Delighted to be interviewed for #BoldJourney this past month. We dive into the qualities that have kept me going as a creative, my work across the performing arts, #XR, and higher ed, and how a teacher taught me to see the world in profound ways. https://t.co/O2IzQYsRwn

[Jonathan D Martin @JonDavidMartin]

If you’re lucky, your students will tell you how much they learned in your class. If you’re really lucky they’ll tell the press about it. https://t.co/DCRuNb8Sg3 @umd_imd #DavidObajemu #XR #AR #highered

[Jonathan D Martin @JonDavidMartin]

Back in the virtual theater with #GumballDreams @XRDreamland_KFF. A delight to perform across time and space from my studio in LA for an audience both virtually and physically a world away. Thx @Ferryman_VR, @DeirdreVLyons , and @screamingcolor for creating such a beautiful show

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@umd_imd New Works Incubator at #NextNowFestival. #AR music-themed escape room, #VR, and interactive projection. When I launched the program 3 years ago, this was the kind of diverse immersive projects that I hoped we could help students create. Super proud!

[Jonathan D Martin @JonDavidMartin]

If you’re in the #DC area, come check out DANCE x DANCE, an interactive dance and robotics project I’m directing at #UniversityofMaryland. 9/12 at 7pm, Art & Sociology Building. https://t.co/0hcBEmOQfz

[Jonathan D Martin @JonDavidMartin]

Honored to be featured on the latest episode of the @InternetSenses podcast, hosted by @JoelLGarrison. We talk spatial storytelling, teaching AR design, puppetry and VR, and a whole lot more. https://t.co/WWPOTXXhjo https://t.co/GGsPuTgrm0 . .

[Jonathan D Martin @JonDavidMartin]

Just published this Medium article about my experience teaching augmented reality design over the past few years. Hope it will be a conversation starter for anyone creating experiential works of AR or interested in training new talent for the medium. https://t.co/wjFXEVlGiA

[Jonathan D Martin @JonDavidMartin]

Back in the “lab” with #DanceXDance @umd_imd . Prototyping new ways to run the robot and track on sculptural elements-as well as the dancer. Added a motion sensor to translate the dancer digitally. Choreo #AdrianeFang Music #SamCrawford Robots @huaishup

[Jonathan D Martin @JonDavidMartin]

That’s a wrap on @umd_imd's New Works Incubator program! Our 3rd summer generated a dozen new #immersivemedia projects by students from across #UniversityofMaryland's campus.

[Jonathan D Martin @JonDavidMartin]

A shoutout to #MarylandToday's #KarenShih for the article about @umd_imd's New Works Incubator. This year’s cohort of student creators is working with interactive projection projects, #VR, #AR, and sensor-based projects just to name a few! https://t.co/yeGZ5TWmgH

[Jonathan D Martin @JonDavidMartin]

My students @umd_imd are using Snapchat's Lens Studio to build AR experiences this summer. So I thought I would check it out and build a special lens for fans of the Broadway production of LIFE OF PI (I'm a puppeteer in the production).
Link to lens https://t.co/Gr9XKFefYV

[Jonathan D Martin @JonDavidMartin]

Excited to be a judge on #SingTank with a great group of other #Broadway veterans & investors. Tomorrow, May 12 @ 11am PT. Check out the latest #ApplesAndOrangesArts' THEatre ACCELERATOR cohort of new musicals that are integrating XR by watching LIVE on
https://t.co/sTAs2yCxTD

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Check out this excellent segment on #lifeofpibway. Being inside of the show, I forget how unique it is as a piece of theater and kinetic storytelling. A huge thank you to @Mistahwax and the whole @cbssaturday team for highlighting the magic and hardwork behind the puppetry.

[CBS Saturday Morning @cbssaturday]

"Life of Pi" - first a hit novel, and then an Oscar-winning movie - is a story unlike any other. Now, with state-of-the-art puppetry and stagecraft, that story is on Broadway. @Mistahwax goes behind the scenes.

[Jonathan D Martin @JonDavidMartin]

Some really awesome footage from our press day at #LifeofPiBway. We demoed how we created the choreography for this sequence by layering on elements one at a time. With #HiranAbeysekera as Pi #BetsyRosen and #NikkiCalonge with me as the tiger.

[Catherine Schreiber @CSchreiberBway]

In honor of π Day, here’s a sneak preview behind the creative process of @LifeofPiBway! 🎥 by Ethan Treiman

[Jonathan D Martin @JonDavidMartin]

Episode 8 of @tangiblehopeproject my #documentary #webseries is out and we’re going to #Denver! Give it a watch. By the end of it, you just may be contemplating making a move to the Mile High City yourself. https://t.co/O7OO0DGN3l

[Jonathan D Martin @JonDavidMartin]

@RTB_Cheerful is becoming one of my favorite sources for news stories that highlight initiatives large and small that are making the world a better place to live in.

[Tangible Hope Project @HopeTangible]

Happy New Year from THP! To help us look towards 2023 with a sense of the possible, check out the “Year in Cheer” from @RTB_Cheerful A (much needed) reminder of some of the many compelling stories of positive change that happened around the globe in 2022. https://t.co/LVFJvIxqxN

[Jonathan D Martin @JonDavidMartin]

A lovely shoutout to “Life of Pi” and the power of puppetry and collective creation in Boston Herald’s year end theater review. Boston's theater season sizzled in 2022 - here are 5 standouts https://t.co/una3LR9Di1 #LifeofPiART