Technician
Intrapology is a queer sci-fi series in the form of interactive online shows that combine theatre and games, for audiences that are excluded from in-person venues due to disability, chronic illness, or geography. Our shows are powered by our own original software, and is set in a storyworld inspired by feminist technoscience theories. Our first season is funded by a Project Grant from Arts Council England, and we performed our first two episodes in late 2024.
We are looking for a technician who can run our online streams, working under our technical director and in collaboration with one other technician.
Pay
We have a budget of £400 per episode available for this service.
Objectives
- Support technical rehearsals and live performances, with a total of 10 hours of direct engagement per performance.
- Minimise latency - this is a high priority, due to the interactive nature of the performances.
- Build workflows that reflect our research into the environmental impact of our way of working, focused on the emissions resulting from video streaming
- Where possible, help us to increase our use of open-source software, and interoperability with a variety of services, including indieweb and the Fediverse
Required skills
We’re looking for a new technician, who:
- Is experienced with streaming and/or remote events
- Uses OBS, ideally familiar with some of its more advanced features
- Knows how to handle sound issues that we often face, such as: consistent volume across multiple video call sources, avoiding echo during hybrid performances
- Has a connection to at least one of the communities that we need to reach: games streaming, disability arts, at-home theatre, etc.
- As with all of our roles, this is ideally suited to someone who faces barriers to in-person arts and culture venues due to chronic illness, disability, or geography
How to apply
- In 300 words, tell us about yourself, the work you make, and how you would approach this task.
Email: contact@intrapology.com
Motivations and priorities
We care about:
- A flourishing culture of networked live art that centres people who have been let down by the illusory “return to normal”: disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent people, as well as people who face other barriers to in-person venues such as geographic inequality.
- Anti-racist and decolonial worlding, neuroqueering, and solidarity with all oppressed people.
- Sustainable technology, frugal computing, indieweb, open source, right to repair, keeping the web free, and pursuing the dream of permacomputing. No blockchain, no Web3, no “AI”.