Actual Objects on their immersive setup Vicky, which informs the story of a future catastrophe through numerous perspectives.
Actual Objects is an speculative innovative studio whose practice focuses on world-building through a number of conventional and technological creative strategies. Painting and live action movie co-exist with 3D animation, AI and programs in the studio’s work, which consistsof music videos for Yves Tumor, A.G. Cook and Sega Bodega, as well as projects for Converse, Hood By Air and Marine Serre.
The studio’s newest work is Vicky, an interactive movie presently setup at Fact and 180 Studios’ Future Shock exhibit that informs the non-linear story of a future typhoon on the southern border of the United States in2028 The narrative, which is enhanced by noise style from Theo Karon, is spread throughout several screens, each of which homes a various character showing on the circumstance in various methods.
“What we were attempting to do with the piece is clarify a kind of dichotomy of sensations,” states Actual Objects co-founder Rick Farin. “So one where you have this really intimate experience with the character where you can walk up to the screen and hear them really plainly, and you have this really visceral, intimate sensation”.
In this movie, Actual Objects’ Rick Farin, Claire Farin and Case Miller talk about the concepts and strategy