

“Half of this takes place in Karen’s pre-existing world, and half in yours,” said Matt Adams, one of Karen’s creators. The answers determine the tone and the direction of the relationship, and, to an extent, the course of the story. To do this, she must ask many questions, directly and indirectly, to see what sort of person you are. She wants to help you and be your friend. “We wanted to know, can the body be an opening to a story, and can you design something that is about surrender?” “We came to this through immersive theater,” said Amy Rose, who develops immersive art in a variety of forms with May Abdalla under the name Anagram.


John Hull, the blind theologian who wrote “Touching the Rock,” describes the feelings of losing sight as you grasp a thick rope and pull your way through the twists and turns of a labyrinth. They pour into your ears from a headset attached to a helmet whose translucent visor allows stray beams of light to enter. In the inky void of “ Door Into the Dark,” there are words to guide you. They ask: What is a story? Who gets to tell it and how? And, while we’re at it, who are you? All of them raise questions about the nature of vision, emotion and the role of an audience. Two of the projects exist online the others have to be tested at the festival (the Spring Studios space at 50 Varick Street). This interactive pentathlon is situated at the outer limits, and beyond, the cinematic experience. The installation, which invites participants to take a visionless, disorienting journey in a big black box, is one of five projects in this year’s Storyscapes, a division of the festival that presents experiments in narrative and storytelling. The evening ends with the biggest decision of all: will you continue in your new life as a woman, or take your decision back and return to your old, male body? Either way, you’ll find that your choice has some very… unexpected consequences.WITHIN a few minutes of entering “Door Into the Dark,” an interactive installation at the Tribeca Film Festival, you are, quite literally, at the end of your rope. The stakes get raised when your best friend, Dylan, shows up, and he and the stranger join forces to introduce you to the pleasures of double penetration. Then it’s time for you to learn to give head. First, he wants to smack your sweet ass if you’re good, you might get to choose whether he does it with his hand, a spatula or a wooden spoon. Should you accept, you’re transplanted into the physical form of your ideal woman (You get to customize your appearance, from your figure to your hair and eye color!) and subjected to the whims of a sexy, dominant man with the body that used to be yours. She offers to trade bodies and genders with you, on one condition: for the rest of the evening, you’re his to do what he will with sexually. One evening, a strange woman appears in your living room with a mysterious device she claims can transfer consciousnesses between bodies. In Switched!, you step into the role of an average man whose life is in a rut following a messy breakup. What would you do if the woman of your fantasies walked through your front door uninvited, and told you she wanted your body- literally ? That’s the question you get to answer in the debut interactive gender swap short from Aurora Sparks, author of hit interactive novels Become the Woman of Your Dreams!, SEX DUNGEONS OF THE RICH & FAMOUS and Become the Woman of Your Dreams! 2. And, in case you've forgotten, you and your new body are mine for the evening.'" A new, unfamiliar and overwhelming kind of erotic thrill traverses your body. You thrust your hand down your pants, under the waistband of your silky panties, past the fuzz of your pubic hair, and cup your vulva in its palm. Needless to say, you're going to do some exploring. The first female body you've touched since Carol. A new, unfamiliar and overwhelming "You, an undersexed dude, have been granted an all-access pass to a beautiful female body. "You, an undersexed dude, have been granted an all-access pass to a beautiful female body.
