This interactive live Fast Forward event invited audiences to explore how musical storytelling extends beyond the stage to influence other sectors. At our Fast Forward: Technology as a Liberatory Tool, we began to investigate how technology can serve artists and creators.
To ground the discussion in lived artistic practice, we’ve engaged two artist case studies. EmmaLee Kidwell and Maria Isabella Andreoli are developing Come See Your Future, a mixed-reality musical that reimagines how audiences experience narrative across physical and digital space. Inyosi Sebenzekhaya is creating Priestess Portals, an evolving work exploring how spiritual technologies and extended reality can merge to generate new forms of ritual, embodiment, and collective transformation. Technologists Aaron Santiago and Dr. Courtney D. Cogburnwill joined the conversation to help audiences better understand how awareness can create agency as we imagine together how technology can be used to fuel the change we want to see in the world.
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CREDITS
Produced by | MTF Musicals
Hosted by | Brisa Areli Muñoz
Featuring | EmmaLee Kidwell & Maria Isabella Andreoli, INYOSI Sebenzekhaya (b. Nia O. Witherspoon) PhD, Aaron Santiago, & Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn
Production
Creative Director | Andrea Negrete
DP | Andrew Young
Editing | Andrew Young
Sound Mixing | Falan Nuhring
MTF Team
Abigail Grubb | Director of Interdependence & Collective Care
Andrea Negrete | Director of Access & Advocacy
AriDy Nox | Director of Decolonization & Sustainability
Brisa Areli Muñoz | Director of Artistic Innovation & Emergent Magic
Brandon Powers | Artistic Innovation Lead
Falan Nuhring | Coordinator of Connectivity & Systems
Sidney Erik Wright | Artistic Programs Lead
MTF Board of Directors
Amy Goldwasser
Ariel Estrada
Catherine Pulley-Dennison
Cheyenne Myrie
Isabel Quinzaños Alonso
M Von Nida
Special Thanks To
The MTF Community & MTF Makers Past and Present
Kelindah Bee | Producer of Fast Forward Live Tapings
Sol & Yue Productions
Shakina Nayfack | Founding Artistic Director
Mei Ann Teo | Former Artistic Director
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MTF’s Institutional Support
The Mellon Foundation
Joseph F. Savage Jr. Charitable Foundation
Howard Gilman Foundation
The Jerome Foundation
Fast Forward is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
