FuturePerfect Productions

FuturePerfect is an extended reality studio creating immersive experiences for global audiences. We build interactive narratives that push the limits of virtual production in order to maximize both cultural and economic impact. Our client-based work is distributed across VR, live performance, physical installations and game consoles. The studio is based in Brooklyn, NY and led by Founder & Executive Director Wayne Ashley and Technical Director Xander Seren.

We work with clients to design, build, and implement artistic and commercial projects, we originate new work, and we consult with governments and institutions. We specialize in pioneering new approaches to creating work.

Our work comes about through playful experimentation and serious research. We are driven by a compulsive desire to collaborate across different histories and expertise—involving not only artists—but also statisticians, anthropologists, philosophers, architects, designers, engineers and experts in other fields. We are non-hierarchical and eclectic in our aesthetic interests, resisting divisions between high and low or pop and experimental. Performance as an organizing principle and practice is central to our work, not as an end, but as a point of departure—a place from which we leave to other destinations.

We’ve induced intense hallucinations in hundreds of audience members, invented new instruments for an underwater music concert, made theatrical interventions in public libraries, deployed databases and algorithms to generate new dramatic texts, and with computer vision developed a live animation system for a French Shakespeare production.

Our clients and collaborators have included BAM, Performing Arts Hub Norway, Fusebox Festival, Nike, Australia Arts Council, CLICK Festival, The Danish Ministry for Culture, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, ELEKTRA, New York Theatre Workshop, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, The Watermill Center, winter guests, Chico MacMurtrie, Verdensteatret, Between Music, Théâtre de l’Union, New York Live Arts, PS122, 3LD, among others.