Acid City

Jack Wedge is an award-winning filmmaker and animator from New York. His work focuses on environmental storytelling and world building, seeking to portray environments as not just a setting but a living character. Wedge has been making animated films since a young age, and he studied at the NYU Kanbar Institute of Film & Television, graduating in 2019. In 2020, he created six episodes of the web series Domo Dreams for Adult Swim, and in 2021 he co-founded Laser Days Studio. He has created short films, music videos, and installations that 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, and his work as a game designer has enabled Laser Days to create interactive live performances, digital puppets, and physical installations. Freudenheim 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.