RHIZOCORP ARCHIVE JIM OSMAN

Opera, Performance Art & Mixed-Media Storytelling

Jim Osman performing The Encrypted Forest
The Encrypted Forest — solo cyberpunk storytelling performance, 2024
Stage production of La Voix Humaine directed by Jim Osman
La Voix Humaine — directed by Jim Osman for the RWCMD MA Opera Directing showcase, June 2022
Poster for Hoora puppetry and performance art night
Hoora! — bi-monthly puppetry and performance-art night, 2019
The Wandering Scholar production directed by Jim Osman
The Wandering Scholar — directed by Jim Osman for Northern Opera Group, Leeds Opera Festival, 2021
Closed Circuit/Cold Case running on a CRT monitor Visitors playing Closed Circuit/Cold Case at an exhibition
Closed Circuit/Cold Case — graphic text adventure built for the ZX Spectrum, shown at ARCADE, Cobden LDN’s interactive-art exhibition at Hypha Studios, Euston Square

Selected Work, Training & R&D

  • Camden People’s Theatre, Solo Show Development Programme — The Encrypted Forest, cyberpunk storytelling show, 2024
  • Bloomsbury Festival, New Wave Theatre Programme — The Encrypted Forest, cyberpunk storytelling show, 2024
  • Director, La Voix Humaine — Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama MA Opera Directing showcase, June 2022
  • Director, The Wandering Scholar — Northern Opera Group, Leeds Opera Festival, 2021
  • Hoora! — bi-monthly puppetry and performance-art night, 2019
  • Closed Circuit/Cold Case — graphic text adventure built for the ZX Spectrum, presented at ARCADE, Cobden LDN’s interactive-art exhibition at Hypha Studios, Euston Square
  • ALGO/AFRO Futures Live Coding — algorithmic music course run by and for Black musicians, 2023
  • Bright Black’s Immersive Story Labs — immersive storytelling course, 2023
  • Telegrafia, Hackney — built a DIY square-wave ring-modulation synthesiser based on the LM567 Tone Decoder chip, 2023
  • Seeing the Machine — live coding for Blessed Foundation at The Bacon Factory, December 2023
  • Dungeon Synth Audio Storytelling — Algorave at IKLECTIK Art Lab, December 2023
  • Dub Siren Drone Noise Performance — Noisemas at IKLECTIK Art Lab, December 2023
  • Opera Directing 1-to-1 — twelve-week tuition course with Daniel Kramer, former Artistic Director of English National Opera, 2021
  • Director, Spoken Futurism Live — Bathway Theatre; Afrofuturist spoken-word and hip-hop performance
  • Artist, Accept the Cookies — research and development at Void Space Festival; group project funded by Immersive UK
  • Sound and music, To Me Temu — Royal Academy of Arts Drawing Room performance with Lolly Adams, combining clowning and noise machines

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