Samantha Gorman
Samantha Gorman
Writer / Director / Artist / Curator / Educator
Samantha works at the intersection of text, cinema, performance and digital culture. She created the hybrid iPad novella Penumbra and co-founded Tender Claws, an art collective and studio that produces VR, iOS apps, games, and live interactive performances. Together with fellow OneFifty artist Danny Cannizzaro, they created their award winning app, PRY, won the New Media Writing Prize and was named a Top 25 app by Apple in 2015.
A storyteller is a soothsayer, an evangelist, a touchstone, an oracle.
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Other Works
BODY AS
Within a feedback loop between choreographer Anne Burnidge and her troupe and Samantha, this performance’s central themes were uncovered: body as figurative and literal structure. Both visuals and text reference architecture devices and processes found in the blueprints of several cathedrals. Through movement and words, these elements are poetically mapped to the body.
PRY
Six years ago, James returned from the first Gulf War. Explore James’ mind as his vision fails and his past collides with his present. PRY is an app hybrid of cinema, game and novel that reimagines how we might move seamlessly among words and images to explore layers of a character’s consciousness. Open or shut James’ eyes, pull apart his memories, or read his thoughts infinitely scrolling in every direction.
