The Voxel Is a Cutting-Edge Theater Experiment

https://bmoreart.com/2024/09/the-voxel-is-a-cutting-edge-theater-experiment.html

29•simonw•1w ago

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simonw•1w ago

Posting this here as a reminder that you can build a successful software company and use that to fund a cutting-edge experimental art and performance space under the cover of "it's a research lab".

The Voxel doesn't even take a cut of ticket sales - it's completely free for the accepted artists to use: https://voxel.org/artist-residencies/

Tech specs here: https://voxel.org/technical-information/manual/

DonHopkins•2d ago

Department of Research Simulation

ultrattronic•2d ago

Well I mean it’s not a stretch at all for this specific company…a theater like this is a perfect testbed for QLab

simonw•2d ago

That's the beauty of this: QLab clearly do need a lab space... but they maybe don't need that space to be this beautifully designed and then have it run as a whole theater with artist collaborations like this.

I find the whole thing hugely inspiring. Chris is one of my new entrepreneurial heroes.

aplsoftwaredev•2d ago

Thanks for sharing! I live in baltimore and have ridden my bike past this place multiple times and didn't know what it was. I asked my wife and her friend who is in the studio scene has done performances there.

keeganpoppen•2d ago

that place is absolutely gorgeous. like it or not, The Sphere is an amazing… cultural artifact, and stuff like this is absolutely the future.

fishtoaster•2d ago

I'm a big fan of this genre of "a person got rich in tech and spent their wealth making an unrelated thing they wanted to exist in the world, untethered from the need to be profitable or self-sustaining."

See also, Jamie Zawinski's DNA Lounge[0] in San Francisco

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_Lounge

ralfd•2d ago

The website is either old or very retro cool:

https://www.dnalounge.com/gallery/2026/01-24/020.jpg

This picture from a recent concert looks how I imagine the Bay Area:

https://www.dnalounge.com/gallery/2026/01-24/020.jpg

Edit: There is a video streaming service of alternative music videos of which the complicated UI I can't quite understand:

https://www.dnalounge.com/musicvideos/

Edit2:

Hahahaha! You have to copy the links into the browser as the DNA greatly dislikes hacker news.

ge96•2d ago

Was thinking literal voxel eg. game engine

I replaced the front page with AI slop and honestly it's an improvement

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