WAY TOO FAR XR, INC.
Immersive Systems for Performance, Culture, and Public Space

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The Next TiMeS New York Live Arts Premiere
Emerging Technology & Storytelling Residency  + Summit
Against Gravity: Flying Afrikans + Other Urban Legends
There Goes Nikki Tribeca Immersive Official Selection
Unsorted Depths Jacob’s Pillow, PillowLab
Psalm for the Mismemoried
Distance Anatomy
DEMO 2024 XR Track @ New Inc
Duende: A Live Video Opera
Illumination: Tracing the Paths of Black Economics in America
Red Summers VR presented by The Guardian
Suga’ Sundance New Frontiers Selection
While You Wait...2.0 supported by LMCC & UMEZ grants

Way Too Far XR is a creative studio specializing in audiovisual design, immersive production, consulting, and hands-on workshop training in XR (extended reality) and interactive media. Founded by Carlos Johns-Dávila, a Peruvian American multimedia artist and composer, the studio develops tech/art installations, performances, and educational experiences that blend technology, storytelling, and cultural research. Based in New York City and working out of Prime Produce Apprentice Cooperative, with projects extending to Philadelphia, Carlos also serves as a co-owner of Black Heart, bringing a collaborative, community-driven approach to every project.

Contact
cjohnsdavila@gmail.com
IG: @carlosjohnsdavila

January, 2025Against Gravity: Flying Afrikans + Other Urban Legends Renegade Performance Group
NYC
Projection Design by
Carlos Johns-Dávila

For Against Gravity: Flying Afrikans + Other Urban Legends by Renegade Performance Group, conceived by André M. Zachery, my projection design approach focused on supporting a personal and historical exploration of Black masculinity through layered visual storytelling. Drawing from archival imagery, text, and abstracted motion graphics, I created a visual environment that moved between memory, geography, and myth—echoing the performer’s journey from 1980–90s Chicago to the legacies of figures like Fred Hampton, Ben Wilson, and Harold Washington. The projections functioned as both landscape and psychological space, integrating poetry and historical resonance to expand the narrative beyond the body and into a collective cultural memory.