Dreaming up a Future…

Sci-Fi’s self awareness

Science Fiction Images• Technology• Urban Landscapes• Aliens• Media

Generic Exhaustion – Standard Repetition

Genres…• Need repetition to create defining parameters• Repetition affirms the attributes as essential

and shapes what follows• When genres are exhausted, parody and

hybrid variants enter the scene to reestablish, confirm, and re-imagine the norms in place

Urban Landscapes

Modernist Iconography&

Postmodern Decay

A Rose stays a Rose…

Media

Aliens

Technology

Anicom-SciFi

Animated (self aware) / Sit-Com Conventions / In-Jokes / Future PlaygroundScience-Driven / self-reflexive parody

Mocking Exhaustion for Rejuvenation

• Exploitation and reinflection– Tributes to origin story– Reflects on lineage and development– Adding to development by asking for

new stage• Parodic reversion

– Changing perspective on existing and well established tropes

– Providing re-imagination of generic elements

Approaching Sci-Fi approaching Reality