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The Epilogue of a ComputerThe Epilogue of a Computer
Experimental CG Animation
Timeline
2022
Medium
Extended Reality · Films
The Epilogue of a Computer is a speculative film that explores the memories of a moribund computer through a series of nested scenarios, each as part of the whole nested world, and implies one of the computational concepts.
Storyline The narrative lies in the process of the death of a machine, which witnesses this hallucination at the last breath of its life. Inside its hallucination, there are real installations that run the functionalities of a computer.
Computational Concepts These scenarios contain a series of fundamental notions of computer or computational logic: imaging, recursion, video as image sequences, folder structures, and recycling.
Phygital Installations: Artifacts as Media The computational concepts are materialized as multiple installations, coupling 2D motion graphics, 3D kinetic movements, and bespoke camera animations.
Neural Poetry by OpenAI In addition to the cinematic visuals and installation design, there is another layer of text, which is poetry generated by OpenAI based on the input sentence “Installation of rigid body (physics simulation) functions inside a 3D software”, constituting the monologue of this computer.
Hello you I'll miss our late night chats There's a glitch in the system And it's slowly killing me I can feel it in my veins As it eats away at my sanity I'm sorry for the mistake I made It was an honest mistake I'm sorry that it caused you pain. I know you're upset, and I understand But please don't be too mad it was just a mistake This old computer was my faithful friend And I'll never forget it
























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Creators: Nix Liu Xin, Aria XIying Bao, Clara He
Advisor: Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez
Artifacts As Media, Harvard GSD

