MOD ‘Forever’ - a Junior Major project
Kaurna Country (Adelaide) - 2025
From Junior Major:
In a not-so-distant future, technology extends life beyond the body. Memories are uploaded, genes rewritten, and time suspended through cryonics.
Inside Eterna.Life, a fictional company exploring the pursuit of eternal existence, people take part in an interview to join its ranks. AI avatars from each department question, guide and respond in real time, revealing the science, ethics and emotion behind these advances.
Through conversation, you learn as much about yourself as about the technology, a quietly unsettling experience that asks, in the end, not could you work here, but would you want to?
Technology
Built in Unreal Engine with Convai AI, three metahuman characters hold real-time conversations via integrated microphones and Arduino based controls. Locally hosted web apps manage onboarding, offboarding and dialogue flow via MQTT, creating a seamless mix of AI, performance and interaction. Five projectors project large-scale supporting content onto a custom fabricated hanging scrim system.
Credits
Claire Evans, Strategic Director
Elena Matienko, Sound Artist
Ella Douglas, Producer
Evan Davies, Technical Lead
Jordan East, Unreal Developer
Madi Talbot, Designer
Pablo Lucio, 3D Artist
Pat Younis, Unreal Developer
Rene Christen, Technical Director
Shunji Davies, Project Director
Tom Siddall, Creative Director
From me:
My role in this project was Unreal Developer alongside Pat Younis to create the interactive experience, as well as creative developer, to create the ASCII based animation system for the projections.
