Close Prev Next bio CV press releases and publications Sound Video Virtual Installations Babak Ahteshamipour bio CV press releases and publications Sound Video Virtual Installations Instagram Email Bandcamp Soundcloud Vimeo Post-coded Thoughts on the Never-upcoming Foreshadowed Li(f)e is a machinima movie created with The Sims . In this post-apocalyptic narrative, human beings suddenly vanish, leaving behind all their digital spawns: A.I., avatars, algorithms, and programs.
Faced with their own risk of extinction, these non-human entities acquire agency and embark into an existential journey to find meaning in an otherwise empty life.
The main character is Babak Ahteshamipour’s alter ego, who is reproducing the sheer banality of RL (real life) activities in an environment mirroring his “real”, concrete space, having imported some of his paintings, few custom 3D models from other video games that are depicted in the paintings, musical improvisations with electric guitar and piano, and a text visualizing the sim-avatar’s thoughts.