Join Theater Designer, Film/Video Maker and Visual Artist Johnny Moreno in conversation with Young Joo Lee and her class on Tools for Virtual and Real Perceptions following a screening of The Chekhov Project’s film I Am a Seagull. Johnny is a long-standing member of The Chekhov Project and is a Producer, Camera Person and Additional editor on the film. RSVP at the bottom of this page.

ABOUT JOHNNY MORENO
Johnny Moreno is a Theater Designer, Film / Video Maker and visual artist currently residing In New York City. He is a long-standing member of The Chekhov Project and is a producer, cameraman and additional editor on The Chekhov Project’s feature independent film I am a Seagull. He has worked internationally as a concert video director and visual artist with Grammy award winning singer Lila Downs and continues to develop new work as a video / projection designer in the performing arts. Johnny is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama in Design. 

ABOUT I AM A SEAGULL
I am a Seagull follows a community of actors in their frenzied and loving attempt to stage a Chekhov play in their front yard. Life and rehearsal blend together in this filmic portrait of The Seagull, an abiding fable that plumbs the splendors and hazards of our human need to create art and make contact with one another. Through juxtaposing phases of rehearsal, live performance and pure cinema this hybrid documentary captures the idealism, contradictions and raw instinct that fuels theatre-making itself.

ABOUT TDM 168L TOOLS FOR VIRTUAL AND REAL PERCEPTIONS
Taught by College Fellow in Media Practice Young Joo Lee, Tools for Virtual and Real Perceptions examines how the current media culture affects the perception of the physical reality, identity, and relationship to other humans as a starting point for individual projects. Some of the themes in the class are virtual reality, gender and community, dreams as virtual reality, phantom limb, extension of body and sensorial organs.

ABOUT TDM OPEN SEMINARS
This year, Theater, Dance & Media opens up its classrooms to the wider Harvard community. Join us for conversations with guest artists and speakers in intimate settings.