El Hardwick

originally imagined as a graphic novel, the project began in 2016, inspired by the marx quote: “history repeats itself, first as tragedy, the second as farce”. the last reserves of energy on earth are used by a social elite to give up their bodies, mass-upload their minds to a server, and migrate into cyberspace. with not enough bandwidth for everyone, those the algorithm deems less worthy are left behind on a resource-depleted earth to upkeep the servers; which a group of cyber-hackers attempts to destroy, before those in power declare war.