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In his artistic practice, Andrew Roberts uses video game development software and 3D modelling to create fictional universes that investigate cultural archetypes found in the literary genres of horror and fantasy, in roleplaying games and in other expressions of globalized culture. The artist’s projects appropriate the forms of digital production to hack their technologies, while also addressing the dynamics of the US-Mexico border and other aspects of the regime of late capitalism that affect our sensibilities. Spectral corpse, a video installation produced for the MUAC, builds a fictional narrative of a zombie apocalypse that took place in 2006. Four living dead teenagers speak to the cataclysm through pop culture references and the violent sociopolitical context of the first decade of the twenty-first century in Tijuana and the north of Mexico. This piece explores the rise of a generational sensibility and its connection to death as a spectral entity through the creation of mortal programming in the digital world, as well as its repercussions on our flesh-and-blood bodies, in the context of violence exacerbated by war and economic systems built on death. Film credits: Written, directed, and animated by Andrew Roberts. Music by Espectro Caudillo (Reuben Torres).