Maud Acheampong (they/them) is a Ghanaian-American Poet and New Media Performance artist interested in soft technologies like misery, ugliness, nostalgia and the way they manifest in our digital ecologies – for better or worse. Through Dainty Funk, their digital avatar and drag persona, Maud takes on monstrous forms and attempts to chronicle these assumed human phenomena with a digital lens. What does it mean for our bodies, our time, our pasts, to be so incredibly digitized? What of those archaic social constructs that bear no weight in the digital world? Or too much weight? Dainty Funk is that moment of connectivity – between beauty and beast, art and science, technology and feeling.