Announcing our co-producers Bringing this project, Deus Ex Machina,” to the stage is ambitious, and doing it right requires partners. Whirligig is proud and grateful to have found two smart producing partner organizations to help us launch the ship, Shrewd Productions and Fusebox. Below they share why they’ve locked arms with us for this project, and share a little about their mission and their background. Shrewd...
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We asked a couple of our colleagues (Beth Burns and Barbara Chisholm Faires) whom we’ve worked with, and who have been deeply involved with the development of Deus Ex Machina, if they wouldn’t mind sharing thoughts about our past work or thoughts about the plans we’ve shared with them so that we could populate the “Testimonial” section of this site we are building. They both replied with humblingly-kind...
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Tonight I am working furiously with (the formidable programmer) Tim Thomas to finish out a prototype of data capture and visualization for real time voting, just in time for Sunday’s reading of Deus Ex Machina. We are using Twilio as our vote collection system for this prototype, and leveraging the base votr code built by a Twilio staff member. And customizing like mad to bring the data visualization into better shape, to...
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