Roboto Octopodo

Categories: IRL Immersive Experience Design, Art, Programming, Community Engagement.

PEAK is working with up-and-coming immersive experience team Roboto Octopodo, leveraging art to revitalize dormant retail space in downtown Portland, Oregon. Helping RO go from zero to full speed in short order, PEAK is providing operational systems design, team-building initiatives, business modeling, and go-to-market strategy for a multi-layered under-the-sea themed IRL immersive space.

The Humanity Center (THC)

Categories: Digital Immersive Experience Design, IRL User Journey, Community Engagement.

PEAK has partnered with Los Angeles-based creative powerhouse BOSA to create THC, an immersive online virtual world dedicated to promoting the mental, physical, environmental, financial and social benefits of legal cannabis. PEAK is tasked with looking at the project through a community lens, helping to craft community engagement-focused elements of the IRL and in-world user experience, the end-to-end user journey, the invitation to participate, and a hybrid (IRL/digital) investor summit.

AUXART High Water

Categories: IRL Immersive Experience Design, Art, Programming, Community Engagement.

PEAK was honored to produce AUXART’s seven-week reprise of its 2021 residency in Portland’s Building 5. Combining large-scale sculpture installation with a sonic theater of spatial sound art, AUXART created an immersive setting called High Water. This community-driven installation was open to the public October 21 - November 12, 2023.

High Water deepened AUXART’s exploration of themes related to the resiliency and meditative recovery of humans collectively from unanticipated catastrophic events like floods, quakes and fire through focus, organization and finally, no choice.

The residency set the stage for experiment and inquiry among artists who are expert in composing in ensemble settings. This means that they can build form and sound that is unscripted conversation ranging from quiet talk and thoughtful listening to forceful intensity and asynchronous interrupting.

Philip Krohn and the AUXART build team worked with multi-instrumentalists Jose Medeles (1939 Ensemble), Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), Lisa Molinaro (Modest Mouse) and Raymond Richards (The Parson Red Heads) in the composition and creation of this work.