Sentences with phrase «in dystopic»

They ask what it means to «make» in a world filled with the aftermath and by - products of industrial consumer culture, where e-obsolescence insists on being visible and physically negotiated in the material world — a world in which optimistic Modernist ideologies of efficiency, productivity, mass - production, and newness result in dystopic technological breakdown and ecological disaster.

In September, he showed some sculptures (one featuring a live Emperor scorpion) in a dystopic group show called «Bathymetry» at Del Vaz Projects, a new space operated out of a west L.A. apartment.

In these dystopic scenes, new civilizations are imagined with inhabitants who participate in a range of provocative, sexual, and often humorous acts.

Rooted in the dystopic depiction of the sci - fi genre, the works mark an attempt at constructing a vision of the future by assembling pieces of contemporary life, architecture and technology.

Pat O'Neill's noir Water and Power uses superimposition, special effects, time - lapse shots and layered imagery to tell a science - fiction inflected story set in the near future, of the struggle for water in a dystopic desert created by Los Angeles» vast water consumption.

Sorta related, in a dystopic - industrial way: WNYC has added audio to the slideshow and essay I did on my father's mining images.

For our second special issue In Blank We Trust, the artist addressed the notion of «paradise,» and how it manifests in the dystopic vision of her landscapes.

Those 60,000 hairs don't quite have a natural movement about them, but who knows what sort of conditioner mankind's got in the dystopic future?

Launched in 1987 by tabletop gaming specialist Games Workshop's Rick Priestly as a sci - fi - themed follow - up to highly successful orcs - and - elves franchise Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40,000 puts the player in control of squads from the Imperium of Man, Eldar, Orks, or Daemons - equivalent to men, elves, orcs, and demons from fantasy literature - in a dystopic future known as «grimdark» after the franchise's tagline of «in the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.»

An opening cinematic shows the region in dystopic state, as series mainstay IF rides her motorcycle across desolate lands like some kind of moe Mad Max.

Not exact matches

If Ridley Scott's dark, dystopic film Blade Runner is the popular image of the future American city, here seemed to be a city evolving in a different direction.

Yes, big data may well transform the way we do politics in the U.S., but I suspect that the more dystopic predictions, (which at their most extreme involve a nation of drooling automatons spoon - fed information through targeted communications) won't come to pass... if for no other reasons than practical ones.

I thought Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence in 2001 was powerful — not in the sense that it portrayed a dystopic, post-apocalyptic world.

Gary Ross played it too safe with the first installment, only vaguely sketching the story's dystopic setting and questionably delivering a bloodless blockbuster about kids forced to kill kids in gladiatorial combat for the reality TV era.

eccentricly the mere approach for this flick to occur to people's sight would be the cameo in «v for vedentta» which is natalie portman's recent flick of dystopic graphic novel.

But instead of returning to shacks to live in poverty and squalor as most District 12 residents do, the victors are granted lavish homes, riches, plenty of food, and all the latest conveniences this dystopic post-apocalyptic future has to offer, like telephones and in - air projection televisions.

Also screening in Headliners is Ben Wheatley's High Rise, a dystopic psyhological thriller starring Tom Hiddleston and Jeremy Irons; Kurt saw the film and called it «triple distilled satire, to be served cold with a garnish of mania in his review.

Though this picture never offers any easy answers, it certainly will nevertheless resonate with countless black gays who've survived similar abuse during formative years spent negotiating their way through a merciless, macho, inner - city gauntlet A decidedly - dystopic perspective of growing up gay in the «hood.

Now the thing about Nicoll's previous sci - fi films is that they weren't as interested in showing us how the dystopic futures they portrayed fall or change, they were more interested in simply showing us how people would live in these realities as a reflection of our own.

A dystopic Capitol requires its twelve subjugated districts to pay tribute in the form of a teenage boy and girl who are forced to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.

Having not read the book, my interest was quelled by the high - concept premise: imagine a dystopic scenario where all of a sudden and quite inexplicably the people around you start going blind and, like a virus, this blindness spreads in every direction leaving a society crippled and in frantic want of quarantine; yet you keep your vision and bear witness to the theatre of the absurd that occurs in the absence of that so vital sense in others.

The dystopic teaser co-stars the actor Tessa Thompson, whose character is abducted by a figure in military uniform, and who later embraces Monáe on a beach; it cuts then to Monáe lying on an examination table as a series of haunting and cryptic flashbacks play in rapid succession and she narrates: «They drained us of our dirt, and all the things that made us special.»

You really can't describe the situation we are in today as an estrangement between the bankers and corporate CEOs and the rest of the 99 percent that brings out the worst in both — barefaced greed and a hateful relish in the suffering of others in the first and a dystopic and quiescent resignation to the inevitability of capitalism in the second.

The movie adaptation of author Lois Lowry's 1993 bestselling dystopic novel, The Giver, about a utopian society that becomes dispelled, was released nationwide in theaters on August 15.

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Sixteen - year - old Katniss poaches food for her widowed mother and little sister from the forest outside the legal perimeter of District 12, the poorest of the dozen districts constituting Panem, the North American dystopic state that has replaced the U.S. in the not - too - distant future.

America likes its champions reluctant, and Collins specializes in that surly breed: her heroine trounces dystopic despots while chewing her cheek in self - doubt.

Worry not, for there are those (myself among them) that cheer you on in your desperate attack on linguistic subterfuge by people who doubt their own credibility and wish to hide behind the type of double - speak that characterizes dystopic novels such as 1984.

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Whether you follow our friendly dragons down the rabbit hole of a potential dystopic future, and get to fistbump Pritvitej along the way, or prefer challenging yourself with high - intensity beatmaps in a Zero Distraction environment and get a nice workout while you're at it - Holodance has you covered.

Like in any proper dystopic world, the machines decide that it's time to get rid of the humans for good, and the player is the last stalwart against them.

Kohler writes that the works in the show (which include an installation and collage works) address «the theme of despair and loss... a slow moving katabasis; the dystopic descent of bottoming out, depression and loss of social standing.

Below the catwalks, in a final chapter, lies a dystopic, postindustrial vacationland for the workers whose labor has become obsolete, inspired in part by Aldous Huxley's writings about a future era of automated labor.

Both Indiana and Wilcox address a constellation of ideals related to the so - called American Dream, including progress, freedom, and self - determination, creating work in which affirmation and critique — utopic and dystopic visions — exist side by side.

The day before Sheffield Doc / Fest begins, artist Richard DeDomenici will remake several minutes of dystopic docudrama Threads in the very locations that the original show was shot, and he wants your help!

Hershman Leeson's female cyborgs and AI projects explore seduction, the performance of gender, and the tantalizing idea of creating new life - forms and reproducing ourselves, touching on the utopic and dystopic scenarios inherent in both.

In this exhibition, Uoo's dystopic cyborg - mannequins are juxtaposed with Euler's multilayered figurative painting within an environment designed by Uoo.

ALEX DA CORTE: FREE ROSES The centerpiece of this extravaganza of consumer - inspired psychedelic art is an installation inspired by Arthur Rimbaud's dystopic poem «A Season in Hell.»

Ongoing has been my interest in sexuality, intimacy, and the persistance of desire in projects such as Dystopic Romances and Serial Romance Paintings»

The new «super hero» works (SH I — IV, 2014) appear in the exhibition and are the first of a new series of images that are romantic yet dystopic.

His work is inconspicutious, dystopic versions of cartoon characters reminisent of the movie protaganists you loved in your youth fill the screens of this exhibit.

Hijacking a phrase from The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard's first science fiction novel and one of his London - based dystopic tales, Walled Gardens in an Insane Eden portrays the world we live in today: on the precipice but hopeful for a less fragile future.

The program of films looks, in an associative way, at the dystopic potential of the present day inherent in current developments in the fields of ecology, society and politics.

In his latest series of paintings and C - prints, Bickerton focused in on the debaucherous side of the Western imagination, crafting dystopic back - alley worlds set somewhere in Southeast Asia and lit by tawdry neon signs, strip clubs, and sex shops and populated by scantily clad, hyper - sexualized bodies, Western transients and sex touristIn his latest series of paintings and C - prints, Bickerton focused in on the debaucherous side of the Western imagination, crafting dystopic back - alley worlds set somewhere in Southeast Asia and lit by tawdry neon signs, strip clubs, and sex shops and populated by scantily clad, hyper - sexualized bodies, Western transients and sex touristin on the debaucherous side of the Western imagination, crafting dystopic back - alley worlds set somewhere in Southeast Asia and lit by tawdry neon signs, strip clubs, and sex shops and populated by scantily clad, hyper - sexualized bodies, Western transients and sex touristin Southeast Asia and lit by tawdry neon signs, strip clubs, and sex shops and populated by scantily clad, hyper - sexualized bodies, Western transients and sex tourists.

★ Ed Paschke (closes on Friday) A formalist in wolf's clothing, or the most abstract of Photo Realists, Paschke produced dystopic visions of a Chicago - inspired dark side, where crime, race, clubs and an eerie glamour mixed with intimations of violence.

Dunkerley, whose most recent solo show, Where Things Go at Joe Bar last year, was moored in obsessive compulsive wordplay, has illustrated a series of detailed gouache landscapes depicting dystopic urban design and architecture, like a valley uniformly planted with vertiginously vertical high - rise apartment buildings (LeCorbusier Kundig).

On the occasion of her 2016 — 17 show at MoMA PS1, curator Peter Eleey wrote: Drawing inspiration from the distorted bodies that litter the histories of modern painting, Braunig adapts these legacies to the discomforts and instabilities of contemporary life... While evocatively dystopic, her paintings also subtly empower their vulnerable subjects, advocating a humanist art for an age in which individual experience seems threatened by forces beyond our control.

Dane Winkler activates Hamiltonian's back gallery with a host of new sculptural work that approximates a dystopic farmyard in Homesteading.

Chinese artist Cao Fei explores dystopic scenarios in her first solo exhibition in the U.S. at MoMA PS1.

Themes of exaggerated consumption, film noir and the depiction of women in art, the dystopic American landscape, and the intersection of popular culture and politics, are explored through works by acknowledged masters such as Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol, as well as by many artists not traditionally associated with Pop whose art may be understood within its wider field of reference.