R & D
Exploring character creation, acting, and performance in the age of virtual worlds, AI, and robotics.
A practice of questions
The studio’s research and development practice serves as a bridge between imagination and reality, helping bring new creative visions to life while exploring how emerging technologies are reshaping character, performance, and human experience—and what new possibilities may emerge through them.
Fields of exploration
The studio explores how performance and character are reshaped through emerging technologies, and how human performance in turn shapes these technologies.
- Virtual reality and real-time environments
- Motion and performance capture
- Volumetric capture and digital human systems
- AI-driven character and interaction models
- Embodied robotics and synthetic presence
Driven by Curiosity
1. How does performance change when character is no longer limited to the human body?
2. What new forms of character emerge through virtual worlds, AI, and embodied technologies?
3. How do humans form emotional connections with digital characters, intelligent systems, and synthetic beings?
4. How might these emerging forms of performance shape human experience and society?
5. Where might emerging forms of character and performance create value beyond the arts?
What collaboration can look like
The studio serves as a creative R&D lead across performance and emerging technologies, operating in initiatory, exploratory, and concept-driven modes between strategy, creation, and hands-on development.
- Developing R&D strategy and creative direction for performance-driven projects.
- Designing and leading experimental frameworks for testing new technologies and character systems.
- Prototyping and testing AI-driven, virtual, and embodied performance systems.
- Directing, performing, and shaping narrative and character work in early-stage VR and capture environments.
- Writing concepts, research-driven narratives, and production-ready documentation.
The studio is grounded in
a personal vision and practice,
with its research forming the Foundation
for wider collaborative work.