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Rose Astronaut
Rose Astronaut
For: Masters in Media, Art and Design university project
Topic: Practical based research on post-apocalyptic imagery in science fiction cinema [1970-present]
"Science is a way of thinking about the reality that takes its objectivity for granted. Fiction is a way of describing the reality that assumes the subjectivity of experience—for every fiction, a different way of seeing things, a different reality. The two words together contradict each other. A thing cannot be both "science" and "fiction" at the same time, any more than it can be both "reality" and 'fiction' "
Darko Suvin
• Man Vs Machine - The greatest anxiety of them all for the future, robots, self-driving cars, electricity in the greatest extent of its possibilities. The pure potential is what drives the ideals of the human races idea of consumption, phones, music, tablets all the very start of the new bust and boom of technology potential. 3D printers, mass farming and of course what technology can do for us, scare and protect, protect and scare. Rules and regulations have been tested and manipulated since the early examples of where the robotically world can go. The fear now, of course, is within countries such as Saudi Arabia who have given the Robot Sophia a home. Speculative fiction from science fiction is what drives the fascination and keen as well as fear traits of humanity. People want to trust in the robotic creatures for protection while holding a fear for synthetically enthralling possibilities.
• The effects of the apocalypse - the void, the empty, the lost and confused, the driven by destruction images that are conjured within the genre, there are very few stances where the post-apocalypse symbolises something better visually. However, within the UK TV show Utopia, the utopia they seek is this fantasy that people are halved in populous, so is that a utopia in the post-apocalypse, yes to some extent but not the entire traditional, building are on fire and people are scared concept that science fiction promotes so frequently. Within my images, I wanted to create the uncanny in my images, this avoidance of people and really focus on the locations. As well as trying to create the appropriate soundscapes and sound design that reflects this too.
• Religious symbolism in science fiction - in the post-human world I have created, the world is void of religion in the traditional sense because, those who knew the religions, as well as the texts have since past. Where there is a void in the transcripts new collective worship becomes a feature. Such as this idea of lighthouses, which comes from the concept of Jesus being the light of the world. In my own imagery, which is influenced by own inherent interest in the Christian faith, developed into the imagery. Wanted to create this divine worship on items which seem trivial, such as people of the post-apocalypse world could celebrate the photograph, as a deity because it gives a glimpse of something else, something before and something to aspire to in the potential of the future, the fantastical. The train lines could be another photography theory ideal - with the leading lines but also a key feature in the development of this need to find a path and follow. Within a world of null, the traditional sense of the collective of the Church becomes the modern interpretation of such.
Rose Astronaut
Rose Astronaut
For: Masters in Media, Art and Design university project
Topic: Practical based research on post-apocalyptic imagery in science fiction cinema [1970-present]
"Science is a way of thinking about the reality that takes its objectivity for granted. Fiction is a way of describing the reality that assumes the subjectivity of experience—for every fiction, a different way of seeing things, a different reality. The two words together contradict each other. A thing cannot be both "science" and "fiction" at the same time, any more than it can be both "reality" and 'fiction' "
Darko Suvin
• Man Vs Machine - The greatest anxiety of them all for the future, robots, self-driving cars, electricity in the greatest extent of its possibilities. The pure potential is what drives the ideals of the human races idea of consumption, phones, music, tablets all the very start of the new bust and boom of technology potential. 3D printers, mass farming and of course what technology can do for us, scare and protect, protect and scare. Rules and regulations have been tested and manipulated since the early examples of where the robotically world can go. The fear now, of course, is within countries such as Saudi Arabia who have given the Robot Sophia a home. Speculative fiction from science fiction is what drives the fascination and keen as well as fear traits of humanity. People want to trust in the robotic creatures for protection while holding a fear for synthetically enthralling possibilities.
• The effects of the apocalypse - the void, the empty, the lost and confused, the driven by destruction images that are conjured within the genre, there are very few stances where the post-apocalypse symbolises something better visually. However, within the UK TV show Utopia, the utopia they seek is this fantasy that people are halved in populous, so is that a utopia in the post-apocalypse, yes to some extent but not the entire traditional, building are on fire and people are scared concept that science fiction promotes so frequently. Within my images, I wanted to create the uncanny in my images, this avoidance of people and really focus on the locations. As well as trying to create the appropriate soundscapes and sound design that reflects this too.
• Religious symbolism in science fiction - in the post-human world I have created, the world is void of religion in the traditional sense because, those who knew the religions, as well as the texts have since past. Where there is a void in the transcripts new collective worship becomes a feature. Such as this idea of lighthouses, which comes from the concept of Jesus being the light of the world. In my own imagery, which is influenced by own inherent interest in the Christian faith, developed into the imagery. Wanted to create this divine worship on items which seem trivial, such as people of the post-apocalypse world could celebrate the photograph, as a deity because it gives a glimpse of something else, something before and something to aspire to in the potential of the future, the fantastical. The train lines could be another photography theory ideal - with the leading lines but also a key feature in the development of this need to find a path and follow. Within a world of null, the traditional sense of the collective of the Church becomes the modern interpretation of such.