Sentences with phrase «dystopian vision of»

Though the excavator heads and the magazines were both once lively tools used by people for creation and learning, they now stand as objects frozen in time — still relics that reflect a dystopian vision of our society.

This ranges from the sheer exuberance of Michael Landy's installation of a costermonger flower stall loaded with fresh flowers, to the monochrome, dystopian vision of American artist Banks Violette, whose work has rarely been seen in the UK.

In Nocturne / Doublemoon (2017), he merges the mysterious atmosphere of Romantic painting with elements of Haruki Murakami's novel 1Q84, named for George Orwell's dystopian vision of 1984.

Paik saw the event as a counter response to George Orwell's dystopian vision of 1984.

In a dystopian vision of our near future, Detroit is the story of three androids,...

In a dystopian vision of our near future, Detroit is the story of three androids, three machines designed to obey, who start to feel emotions.

I'll just say it's a wise, sweet, and deeply unsettling story - a brilliant dystopian vision of some possible futures awaiting us, the children of the Information Age.»

Nabil Elderkin (director) and Marcus Guillory (writer) / Gully (U.S.A.): This non-linear, slightly dystopian vision of LA follows three disaffected teenagers, Jessie, Calvin, and Nicky — all victims of extreme childhoods, running supreme hedonistic riot as they try to work out a way in life.

You've got the father - son partnership between Will Smith and Jaden in yet another post-apocalyptic dystopian vision of earth, and it's from hit - and - miss director M. Night Shyamalan.

Jurassic Park was firmly grounded in its source novel's Shelley-esque skepticism of human progress; Minority Report was a prescient dystopian vision of fascism and corporatism run amok.

A new play provides an all - too - realistic dystopian vision of the financial crash's impact on ordinary lives.

It presented a dark, dystopian vision of political oppression.

This has raised the spectre of technological unemployment — the dystopian vision of an economy in which machines make many workers obsolete.

This was a year where dystopian visions of dying mutants and warring apes captured the national zeitgeist.

From the malevolent mainframe of 2001's «Hal» to the proliferation of remote - controlled, drone - delivered destruction, dystopian visions of technology exist in abundance.

As society continues to seek an understanding of the digital age by rational means, Ida Kvetny's work offers a dark alternative: a Surrealist aesthetic united with dystopian visions of the modern world.

While Eisenman's early work overtly explored identity, gender, sexuality, family dynamics or inequality through provocative subject matter, Winter Solstice 2012 Dinner Party articulates her more recent preoccupation with portraits of individuals or groups engaged in different social activities — inspired equally by French Impressionist bourgeois café scenes, the dystopian visions of James Ensor and the casual gatherings with friends and fellow New Yorkers.

Existing global narratives about the future tend to be either dystopian visions of collapse and hardship, poorly articulated pathways to utopian fantasies, or stories that overestimate the power of conventional strategies to create real change.

Not exact matches

It's certainly a dystopian vision — but it's not too dark to inspire the name of meal - in - a-bottle company Soylent's newest product.

But even Orwell, with all his visions of a dystopian future, restricted this unbridled hate to a daily two - minute period.

In contrast to this vision of reality as television, Sun Microsystems co-founder and chief scientist Bill Joy depicted a dystopian world in which the hubris of the human race will engender nonprotein life - forms that will multiply and threaten the planet.

Many people could construe the tagline of Malcolm Gay's recent book, «The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High - Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines,» as a vision of dystopian cyborgs lording over the general public.

With The Hunger Games» dystopian view of the future of North America, we recap Hollywood's best to worst visions of corrupt governments, sinister medical programs, and hellish landscapes.

This is no Disney fable and the apocalyptic vision isn't for everyone, but science - fiction fans and adventurous filmgoers will find this ingenious explosion of retro - cyberpunk a compelling dystopian vision with a gleam of hope.

The fantastic A New Tomorrow: Visions of the Future in Cinema program currently screening at Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art includes two dystopian features that delve beyond the humour to explore the reality of the dichotomy of both unwanted and desperately needed offspring, courtesy of Andrew Niccol's 1997 effort Gattaca and Alfonso 2006 offering Children Of Meof the Future in Cinema program currently screening at Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art includes two dystopian features that delve beyond the humour to explore the reality of the dichotomy of both unwanted and desperately needed offspring, courtesy of Andrew Niccol's 1997 effort Gattaca and Alfonso 2006 offering Children Of Meof Modern Art includes two dystopian features that delve beyond the humour to explore the reality of the dichotomy of both unwanted and desperately needed offspring, courtesy of Andrew Niccol's 1997 effort Gattaca and Alfonso 2006 offering Children Of Meof the dichotomy of both unwanted and desperately needed offspring, courtesy of Andrew Niccol's 1997 effort Gattaca and Alfonso 2006 offering Children Of Meof both unwanted and desperately needed offspring, courtesy of Andrew Niccol's 1997 effort Gattaca and Alfonso 2006 offering Children Of Meof Andrew Niccol's 1997 effort Gattaca and Alfonso 2006 offering Children Of MeOf Men.

The new season of Black Mirror is near, and we've just received our first taste of the dystopian vision Charlie Brooker and company have in store for viewers.

Actor - turned - screenwriter Hampton Fancher came next, as he built out the screen story by adding its noir elements; filmmaker Ridley Scott (Alien) contributed his staggering cinematic vision for a dystopian near - future and ever deeper layers of meaning, aided by late - coming screenwriter David Webb Peoples.

The setting is almost dystopian in appearance, and, appropriate for a film made in 1984, it brings to mind George Orwell's infamous vision of the country.

Minority Report's visual identity owes a lot to Spielberg's vision of a future society that's at the same time dystopian and utopian, but also to the brilliant work of cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, who shot it with high - speed film.

The other finds star Suki Waterhouse getting into a rusty car somewhere in the desert that is Amirpour's vision of a dystopian America.

After its opening - credit sequence, during which Roger Pratt's camera roams around what is eventually revealed to be a metal Bat - Signal, Burton establishes his vision of Gotham City: an unabashedly surreal environment that owes more to the dystopian sci - fi visions of Metropolis and Blade Runner than to any of the notions of noir - ish realism that underpins Nolan's films.

The opening shot of the vast, dystopian city of Los Angeles — dubbed «The Hades Landscape» — is an absolute feast for the eyes and a vision that's yet to be beaten — even by today's standards.

That the film confronts these issues head - on, without the crutch of allegory, is rare in itself, but what makes Black Panther truly unique is that this «dystopian» present is juxtaposed with a (stunningly staged) utopian vision that is also wholly steeped in the black experience — in its history, iconography, and culture.

The vision of a dystopian future that has had the greatest influence over publishing in recent times came not from a novel created for young adult readers, however; it is in fact the fate suffered by the music industry in its attempts to deal with to digital disruption.

Author of The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future Interview starts at 18:40 and ends at 43:00 «All the visions that most people have of the future are all dystopian, and they're afraid.

The music was composed by Australia's Power Glove and the soundtrack «mirrors the game's vision of a nostalgia - drenched journey into the world of VHS - inspired dystopian futures.»

Set on a dystopian Earth nearing the end of its life, The Surge offers a grim vision of our future.

A vision which is not dystopian but real, an engaged critical analysis inface of the brutalisation of a supposedly democratic, humanitarian and affluent present viewed from a near future.

Inspired by Mana's distinct industrial landscape, GENERATION SHIP constructs a vision of sanctuary within a near dystopian future.

The author urges Londoners to come out to Annka Kultys to see Fedorova's «eerie, computer - generated visions» of a «surreal, dystopian, post-human future landscape.»

Opening June 3, 5 - 8 pm, «Telling the Futures» is an outdoor group exhibition placing many different future options into relation — a kind of «choose your own adventure» of apocryphal psychic visions of political election cycles for survival in a dystopian utopia.

His work is currently being exhibited in London's prestigious Victoria and Albert Museum as part of the science fiction - themed exhibition Memory Palace based upon author Hari Kunzru's futuristic vision of a dystopian London, and next on his agenda is a solo exhibition entitled Controlled Spaces in Portland's Breeze Block Gallery in their main space, alongside UK - based Carl Cashman in Gallery 2.

Inspired by the recurrent nature of war and histories bound to repeat themselves, Schoultz's latest exhibition toggles between his signature frenetic imagery and a new stark minimalism reminiscent of various art historical conventions — though both illustrate a topical, dystopian vision.

As Cooper discusses the technology and his visions of the future, the piece weaves his personal trajectory with that of a dystopian landscape in which natural and digital worlds coexist.

Much, although not all, of the material for this exhibition was drawn from the Judge Dredd comics — a dystopian future - vision that focuses on a central character who dispenses an authoritarian, immediate and violent form of justice.

Gordon Cheung is a contemporary artist whose work captures the mood of the global collapse of civilization — or a dystopian, prophetic vision of it — where moral, economic and environmental crises have spun out of control.

Having said all this, I must add that Drawdown is not yet a tonic strong enough to cure the dystopian plague that has come to penetrate most all our visions of the future.

«In Orwell's dystopian vision, the Party spent its every energy to ensure the people knew nothing of what was really going on, ensuring that only a narrative approved by the «Ministry of Truth» saw the light of day.

«I must add that Drawdown is not yet a tonic strong enough to cure the dystopian plague that has come to penetrate most all our visions of the future.

There are recently published macro studies like Max Tegmark's Life 3.0 which opens with an apocalyptic (fictional) vision of a dystopian future from w which we are to be (putatively) saved by the (real) intervention of such as Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking to support the work... Continue reading Artificial Intelligence, Legal Services and Justice →