HIAC: Lab Manual
Our Experiments So Far:
HIAC23: Thought Experiments
2017 will be the timeframe of Experiment 23, in four distinct parts: April 29th, July 29th, September 30th and December 30th @ 10pm. Institution Theater. More information coming soon!
read more#22(1-7): MetaCartography – The Iterative Mind Installation
johnny 5 was a moron but people still respected him #5Thursday, March 4th, 2010 Happiness is a Choice – Respecting Moronity Happiness did an experiment tonight. We have a lot of fun. We call ourselves scientists, and we call our shows experiments. We say we’re not doing improv shows– we’re scientists conducting experiments, and sometimes we employ improvisation as a tool for our experimentation. It’s […] https://choosehappiness.info/podcast-player/1/hello-world.mp3 ◑ STATEMENT Meta-Cartography is a new...
read more#21(a&b): Time-Travel Play
MINDMAP NOVEMBER 29TH AT 8PM Being the GRANDE FINALE of ALL THE TIME TRAVELS ALL THE TIME, a whole dang variety showcase festival of acts loosely related to time travel.THIS, our 21st experiment, promises to be perhaps more personal than any previous experiment, delving into the mind and life of one of our scientists through the use of footage and journal entries from over a decade ago. CAN one travel through time along the neural grooves of histories forgotten? CAN one REMEMBER? We shall map the mind of this intrepid scientist over...
read more#20: On Authenticity
AUTHENTICITY JULY 6TH AT 8PM SALVAGE VANGUARD THEATER (2803 Manor Rd.) TICKETS! TICKETS! TICKETS! Happiness is a Choice are performance scientists who use improv and meta-theatre to learn about each other and the moments they inhabit on stage. For Real This Time: A Psychedelic Odyssey on Questions of Authenticity is their most orchestrated and extravagant experiment yet– incorporating renowned guest improvisors, scripted narrative, meta-discourse, time-travel, and botany. Happiness is a Choice invites you to attend...
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#18: Memory in Five Acts
MEMORY IN FIVE ACTS AUGUST 31ST AT 9PM COLDTOWNE THEATRE (4803 Airport Blvd)
read more#17 Between Two States AND Times
we conducted an experiment with jon, without jon here is that same experiment, with jon see it: loss and gain
read more#16: WETF vs. THE METHOD
What Does Science Know? (Scientific Methodologies and The Great Debate)
read more#15: Between Two States
Happiness is a Choice at a Distance In this half hour we intended to test the following hypothesis: The farther away people are from Paul, the harder it is for him to tell them how depressed he is. audiovisual observations coming soon Thursday, November 11th hideout theatre
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#13: Cursed
. . . and requires more analysis. or maybe less. it was after midnight–at the very end of a mini improv marathon–and we let a heckler get up on the stage and teach us the basics of improv.
read more#12: SEFE-12
#12 got taped. Some Emails From Experiment 12: Gentile Men, I got two things on the roster here. One is about scheduley stuff, the other is further data on The Process (by which Happiness is a Choice discovers what Happiness is a Choice is). Scheduley stuff: Even though I have insisted time and again that Happiness is playing late Thursday night/early Friday morning for Out of Bounds, that is not the case at all. The truth is, Happiness is playing early Saturday morning at 1:30am, more commonly known as LATE FRIDAY NIGHT. Can we all like hang...
read moreThe Ring Culture of Nanah’d
by Jon Clinkenbeard Proof is a strange concept. Evidence can be lost. The senses can be deceiving and unreliable, even among groups of dissimilar individuals, each witnessing the same event. Ultimately, proof is individualistic. It requires nothing of the individual who experiences it, and provides nothing in return. Aside from hypothetical conjecture, every human has experienced an intimate knowledge of something that is very real for them, that they in turn are being challenged to explain to others, to convince them or convert them, of that...
read more#11: Visual Silence: – . –
find out what happened when the lights never came up HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE IN THE DARK in the dark in the dark in the dark in the dark
read more10 Came From The Vortex
It happened in the future. Tonight, 9:30pm, New Movement, find out what happened!
read more9 is Haunted With Demons of Happiness Past
ten minutes of nineOr maybe it’s daunted with he-mans of hoppiness past. Mmm, hoppiness. That reminds me of bunnies and beer. Maybe Experiment 9 will be brimming with bunnies and beer. Happiness can’t predict the future with any certainty. But we know that if you’re there, you will change the experiment for the better, even if you don’t utter a word. It’s true. That’s science. Happiness is a Choice in Block Party at The New Movement at 9:30 pm on Rosewood and Poquito.
read more8 Happened on the 8th of July (coincidence)
I: Experiment 8 was made of Jon, Paul, and Jeff. II: It lasted 10 minutes.
read more7 Happened After it Didn’t Happen When We Said It Would Happen
1. Experiment 7 happened at The New Movement. 2. It was 7 minutes long (coincidence). 3. It was supposed to be made of only Jeff and Paul. 4. Paul was late to arrive to Experiment 7. 5. In the first 6 minutes, Jeff was alone. 6. Jeff experienced in that time great joy. 7. Paul arrived with a minute remaining in our set. 8. Paul experienced happiness in that minute.
read moreVISUAL SILENCE = THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT
7 became 11Hideout became ColdtowneSun became Moon HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE IN THE DARK in the dark in the dark in the dark in the dark
read more6 in the Public Soundscape
“You Express Things Through Noise” March 15th. 8:30pm. ColdTowne. noise inspironateCommence 00:31 3/11 Anonymous Happiness Practitioner (AHP) say word on “You Express Things Through Noise”. Address you, reader. AHP suspect you question. How Happiness not know? Happiness know title. Experiment title “You Express Things Through Noise”. Right? So Happiness know. Happiness know now. Ahead of time. Time enough to think ahead. Ahead of time of experiment. Happiness hear question. Address it. Answer yes. You...
read morejohnny 5 was a moron but people still respected him
#5Thursday, March 4th, 2010 Happiness is a Choice – Respecting Moronity Happiness did an experiment tonight. We have a lot of fun. We call ourselves scientists, and we call our shows experiments. We say we’re not doing improv shows– we’re scientists conducting experiments, and sometimes we employ improvisation as a tool for our experimentation. It’s awesomely self-indulgent and pretentious, but the more we pretend to take Happiness seriously, the more fun we seem to have. After five experiments in the last three...
read moreIt Was the Night of his 38th Birthday . . .
And Jeff had an epiphany that went something like this. Caution: REAL AND RAW DATA AHEAD! Jepiphany It was over a month ago, but I remember I was tired from something when I arrived at Mike’s. You can hear the fatigue in my voice. On the other hand, Paul and Mike were both there to greet me with some birthday wishes and libations, so I was very happy and heart-warmed to be there. Mike happened to already have his audio recorder rolling when I asked them if they wanted to hear the story of what I was calling an “epiphany”...
read moreResults Are Data Are Eyeballs
data data data data Public Experiment 4 February 4th at The Hideout SADNESS je’s pre experiment demand raw audial data from experiment thoughtful results Public Experiment 3 January 22nd at Dillengerella KINDNESS Efficiency and Efficacy proposal raw audial data Public Experiment 2 January 14th at Dillengerella GRAVITY Space, Commercialism, The First Law of Motion, and Hugs in Space proposal Public Experiment 1 January 5th at Coldtowne POETRY Diary, Sincerity, and Lift-off ...
read more#3: Killin’ Em With Kindness
HIAC Experiment #3 – Killin’ Em With Kindnessor: PRETENDING Hypothesis:A State of Mind is a Form of Pretending Terms – Solipsism Experiment 3.1:Participant 1 – Face the wall, close your eyes, don’t turn around and open them until you can see the world as pretend.Control: We are in a world of gravity.Variable: Music.Participant 2 – Ask questions.Results:10:15 – “I think I made up my favorite people in the world.” Experiment 3.2:Participant 1: – Start telling a story while pretending...
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