The Third
Darrin Verhagen, RMIT University | [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/133465887″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=true&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]
Scott Wilson, Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand | It is, perhaps, a little, hyperbolic to refer to George Lucas as ‘the greatest artist of our time’, responsible for closing ‘the gap between art and technology more successfully’ (Paglia, 2012) than any other; yet it is impossible to avoid the impact Lucas’ films have had…
Jacqueline Furby, Southampton Solent University | Terry Gilliam studied physics at Occidental College (later transferring to politics), and his appreciation of the absurd poetics of science is evident in his handling of scientific subjects such as time and time-travel. His films also reveal his fascination with the workings of the human mind, perhaps none more…
Rebecca Hutton , Deakin University | ‘The purpose of a thought-experiment, as the term was used by Schrödinger and other physicists, is not to predict the future […] but to describe reality, the present world.’ — Ursula K. Le Guin[i] Science fiction, according to Pearson, Hollinger and Gordon’s Queer universes: sexualities in science fiction,…
Lindsay Hallam, University of East London | The genre of science fiction brings us worlds of wonders and new possibilities, the discovery of new realms, meetings with new beings and organisms. Science fiction also presents us with new ideas, a setting for philosophical contemplation about what the ‘human’ is, and how we as a…
Darrin Verhagen, RMIT University | Sound – Darrin Verhagen Image – Richard Grant “The listener is in search of information. The ubiquity effect is based on the paradoxical perception of a sound that we cannot locate, but we know is actually localized. … Often it is important to know where a sound comes from;…
We are again pleased to offer you a wonderfully exciting and provocative episode of Deletion. The pieces included take us from the sonic terror fields of outer space to inner personal traumas, from the confusions of time travel to the brutality of totalitarian thought control and the dangers and pleasures of Sade as it manifests…