The Voice of Gods in Your Ear:: Becoming the Avatar in Immersive Performance
ORCID
- Misha Myers: 0000-0002-4355-6602
Abstract
This chapter explores how immersion and participation are experienced and conjured through augmented reality (AR) technologies through the case study of the located and augmented reality-enabled performance Nobody’s Ocean. In the performance, audiences navigated the story-world of Homer’s The Odyssey augmented in the streets of Melbourne, Australia, through audio, visual and social media content facilitated by their smartphone. The chapter examines three relationships that distinguish immersion in AR-enabled performance: that between seamlessness and disruption, between place and narrative and between avatars and a sense of located embodiment. Nobody’s Ocean was performed in Melbourne 13-22 October 2016, directed by Misha Myers with technical design by Chris Heywood, and produced by Monash Academy of Performing Arts and the Monash University Centre for Theatre and Performance in partnership with the Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture.
DOI Link
Publication Date
2025-08-07
Publication Title
Experiencing Immersion in Antiquity and Modernity: From Narrative to Virtual Reality
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
ISBN
9781350419094, 9781350419100
Deposit Date
2025-11-17
Embargo Period
2026-02-07
Additional Links
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/experiencing-immersion-in-antiquity-and-modernity-9781350419094/, https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105008842444
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
First Page
129
Last Page
142
Recommended Citation
Myers, M. (2025) 'The Voice of Gods in Your Ear:: Becoming the Avatar in Immersive Performance', Experiencing Immersion in Antiquity and Modernity: From Narrative to Virtual Reality, , pp. 129-142. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.: Available at: 10.5040/9781350419124.ch-009
This item is under embargo until 07 February 2026
