Most Dismal Swamp is a project emerging from the curatorial, artistic, and research practice of Dane Sutherland (b. 1985, Scotland). Its multimedia works involve collaboration, commissioning, and convivial speculation with a wide network of artists. These projects are modular and densely populated, presented through immersive and bespoke installations, as well as online – multi-user shared hallucinations dredged from the slumgullion swamp of adversarial digital, platform, and neural media. A rigorous ‘acid pessimism’ animates the work of Most Dismal Swamp: an acerbic yet playful immersion into composite hallucinatory lifeworlds, gamespaces, and protocols that constitute the hostile architectures of our shared platform-mediated crises. Most Dismal Swamp’s work has been presented at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2024); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2024); /slash arts, San Francisco (2022); Hellerau, Dresden (2022); MIRA Festival of Digital Arts, Barcelona (2021); Gossamer Fog, London (2019); and Arebyte, London (2019). Dane Sutherland lives and works in London.