The project was developed together with the dancer Anna Kravchenko at humainTrophumain in Montpellier, after winning an open call for works from the European Network for Contemporary Creation (ENCAC). Kravchenko’s movements were captured by Microsoft Kinect, and this data was in turn fused with the crowd simulation software Golaem Crowd. In Warburton’s own words, “this experimental project takes place at a time when the uses of artificial intelligence, chatbots, supercomputers and deep learning algorithms are constantly called into question. These entities are not human, but they are designed by humans to give the impression of humanity. When humanity is encoded as a set of parameters, we are forced to question the representational power of AI software, and in project such as this, imagine what these primitive beings could one day become.”