The Sci-Fi Film Festival is on in London at the moment. This in itself is pretty awesome, but Transmission have also curated an exhibition for the festival called 'Life in 2050'. Each of the featured artists have given a representation of what they think the world will be life in 40 years and the variety of responses is amazing. There is an overriding sense of decay and destruction in the works which says something about the current state of the world. This particular video by Future Deluxe, however, has a rather more positive view on the future with blinding white light and surreal graphics which are absolutely mesmerising. (all images and video from the Life in 2050 website, also the song in the background is Harmonic 313 in case anyone is interested)
Artist Tom Gallant
Artist Mario Hugo
I couldn't stop staring at that video, it puts you in a trance.
ReplyDeleteCool artwork on the site, thanks for talking about this or I probably never would have seen it. I agree that there does seem to be a consistent them of impending doom, post-apocalyptic and all that jazz (I half expected to see a still from Mad Max or The Road Warrior pop up during the slide show). However, I also felt there was an undertone of the organic in most of these pieces as well; even the ones that seem to be all about destruction and decay tended to include aspects of nature. Whether as a return to a quasi-barren landscape, or nature flourishing in the absence of human civilization, as we currently know it; I thought nature showed up in interesting ways. Which, in my opinion, speaks just as much to our current global psyche as the themes of decay and destruction.
ReplyDeletehypercobo- It's almost hypnotic isn't it?
ReplyDeleteJeff- I completely agree. Nature is often considered as either a means of escape from a manufactured future, or a dominating force that leads to the downfall of civilisation. I've found a lot of science fiction books and films either address nature as the 'ideal' or the 'enemy'. These works often include an organic element which, as you said, definitely reflects the main issues in today's world.