Jack Wedge is an award winning filmmaker and animator from New York. His work focuses on environmental storytelling and worldbuilding, seeking to portray environments as not just a setting, but a living character. Jack has been making animated films since a young age. Jack studied at the NYU Kanbar Institute of Film & Television, graduating in 2019. In 2020 he created a 6 episode web series for Adult Swim called "Domo Dreams". In 2021, Jack co-founded Laser Days Studio. He has created short films, music videos, and installations which have screened around the world.

 

Will Freudenheim is a game designer and researcher based in New York. His work focuses on creating experimental games and virtual environments that bring together human, artificial, and biological participants. Drawing from both game design and experimental music composition, Will brings forms of interaction and play into the process of producing digital animation, creating experiences that blur boundaries between various media forms. His projects cultivate shared digital worlds as experimental spaces for play, collaboration, and knowledge production. Currently, Will is developing "Biotopy," a biodigital project that connects a physical bioreactor with Unreal Engine to create a living Tamagotchi-like interface. His work as a game designer has enabled Laser Days to create interactive live performances, digital puppets, and physical installations. Will holds a Master's degree in Media Studies from MIT and is the editor of Interplay, a newly published book on game engines, machine creativity, and inter-species collaborative design. He has shared work at game festivals, exhibited in art galleries, and spoken at film festivals and universities around the world.

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