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Amorphous: Playing With Reality
Amorphous: Playing With Reality
Amorphous is a large-scale, multisensory immersive experience that merges interactive scenography, playful tactile installations, optical illusions, narrative design, and multi-user VR to explore one central question: How do we perceive and inhabit our bodies?
Amorphous is a multiplayer location-based experience guiding audiences through a series of rooms where playful storytelling, immersive technology, tactile exhibitions, and intimate testimonies invite participants to explore the plasticity of their physical and emotional selves.
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£50,000
How do we perceive and inhabit our bodies?
Aims of the project
In partnership with researchers at KCL and Birkbeck, we will develop and test prototypes of Amorphous, refining script, accessibility, gameplay, and pacing through workshops with people with lived experience and subject experts.
Building on prior work and VR prototypes, we will create an end-to-end test of the multi-format immersive experience, blending physical and digital interactivity, working towards a showcase with invited audience, which will set the shape for full production of the work.
Meet ANAGRAM
May Abdalla
Co-Director
she/her
ANAGRAM is an award-winning creative studio specialising in interactive storytelling and immersive experience design that challenges the status quo. Experimenting at the edges of technology, our mission is to make thought-provoking and playful experiences that bring profound new perspectives.
We use physical and interactive storytelling across a number of contexts to challenge, inspire and influence the cultural discourse around present social and political issues.
The personal is always political. How we see ourselves, our value, meaning and power is something that comes from the invisible context of culture and society. Revealing what is invisible gives us power to change it.
Door Into The Dark (2015) was our debut into the immersive arena. Our more recent works include Goliath: Playing with Reality (2021), Messages to a Post Human Earth (2021), A Face to Open Doors (2020) and The Collider (2019).
Emmy-nominated and winners of the Grand Jury Prize for Best VR Work (2021) and the Venice Immersive Achievement Prize (2024). Anagram have previously been awarded the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival Storyscapes Award, the 2019 Sandbox Immersive Art Award, part of the Best VR in 2019 at the Venice International Film Festival.
Barry Gene Murphy
Co-Director
he/him
Barry is Creative Director at Anagram, with over 20 years’ experience in animation film making, 3D and special effects, and a decade in XR creation.
John Hunter
Senior Producer
he/him
John is Anagram’s producer, leading on both Impulse and Amorphous in the Playing With Reality collection.
