*****2025/... – Carles Castaño

3D modelling, texturing, rigging and animation for the VR immersive experience *****2025/... by Carles Castaño (Servicios Inmersivos), exhibited during March 2025 at digital art gallery HYPER HOUSE (Madrid). The entire 3D pipeline (modelling, UVs, texturing, rigging and animation) was done in Blender by us at vertebra studios. Servicios Inmersivos then implemented them and programmed the VR immersive experience in Unity.

*****2025/... is an interactive immersive installation/experience in mixed reality by the artist Carles Castaño that proposes to occupy the entire physical space of HYPER HOUSE, transforming and readapting it with the virtual environment.

The artwork proposes a complex and extensive narrative, just like the reality -physical and virtual- of the consumer society we inhabit. It addresses a myriad of current real issues and possibilities through metaphor, directly or indirectly, in the form of a 3D virtual universe: fictitious reality, extreme consumerism, consumers and not people, strict rules focused on a broad but disadvantaged sector of society, unbridled inequality, frustrating inequality, prevailing individualism, death of the collective, the fall of basic rights, impossible housing, housing as a method of investment profitability, housing in a desperate format, imposed speed, no rights, ultraCapitalism, exploitation, ultra-rich ultra-poor, destruction, destruction of everything around us, destruction of the living, destruction of the real, destruction of what was already here.

‘We are witnessing the apocalypse, everything is being destroyed, the walls of the premises are cracking and pulverising, the plants are burning and turning into viscous black chapapote, the buildings are turning into fireballs.... We travel inside a chaotic universe in VR format. Users are invited to leave’.