ARTICLE: THE ICONOGRAPHY OF CHRISTIAN WRIGHT'S HUGGING EMBRACE

Christian Wright, Hugging Embrace, 2014

“SOMETHING BULGING IN THE DEPTHS OF HIS LEATHER PANTS”

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A bizarre slo-mo conversation between two robotic characters about a “luring bulge” and “golden eyes” that sound sounds like it was lifted from a cheap erotic novel, Hugging Embrace, one of Christian Wright’s earliest machinima, takes glitching to the next level. Characters literally break apart as they discuss the need to find a more private place to indulge in post-human intimacies. The penetration test seems successful, as polygons converge and then explode in a myriad of pieces. A single caress produces unfathomable damage as hands disappear into bodies without organs and limbs vanish in a mountain of hay. Characters’ legs and arms twist unnaturally. A bodily union becomes a literal merging of dark souls. The video illustrates the cheesy dialogue in a comic way and obscenity turns into hilarity. Hugging Embrace redefines kinky for the avatar age. There’s flesh. And there’s skin. There are lubricated shafts. But not the kind you imagine.

“This was juicy”, we are told.

Oh yeah, that was juicy.

(continues)

Matteo Bittanti

Works cited

Christian Wright

Hugging Embrace

digital video/machinima (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 14’ 30”, 2014, United Kingdom

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