THIS MACHINE KILLS VIBES

With face-tracking data captured from myself giving a written presentation, a CGI bog body was produced using a combination of Unreal Engine, Metahuman, and Houdini. The resulting animated figure presented this paper at a conference, ‘Poetics of Encryption’, in Berlin, 2023. The paper gives an overview of Most Dismal Swamp projects, situating the recent commission Scraper, while delving into some of its conceptual and thematic motivations.