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The premise of this piece was an exploration of the morals of artificial intelligence, of the possibility of making analogues of human beings in virtual worlds. I was interested in what could go wrong and how the technology could be abused.

I attempted to construct an environment so bleak and absurd that it would constitute abuse of the virtual actor.

Exploitation: The Hypocrisy of Theocracy

Exploitation: The Hypocracy of Theocracy from Simon Crowe on Vimeo.

This animated short is the outcome of an animation course I took alongside my foundation diploma. It was based on an anecdote of my mother's, describing what she came to know of the life of a woman she met in county Galway, Ireland.

The Magdalene laundries were founded by the Roman catholic church in Ireland as asylums for what were deemed to be fallen women, as time went on however, far from being sanctuaries for prostitutes and such; for a growing number of women, from more varied walks of life, they became forced labour camps. Their new life of piety commonly amounted to unpaid labour.