“Speculative Objects: Materialising Science Fiction” presented by Muller
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- ISEA2013: 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Session Title:
- Assimilate This… Science Fiction and Media Art
Presentation Title:
- Speculative Objects: Materialising Science Fiction
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Panel: Assimilate This… Science Fiction and Media Art
Keywords: Speculative objects, Science fiction, Curatorial practice based research, Awfully Wonderful: Science Fiction in Contemporary Art, Performance Space.
In this essay I propose the idea of the ‘speculative object’ as a way of understanding how some artworks and artefacts function in human experience as philosophical tools. I explore the way in which objects materialize science fictional structures, in particular the way they provoke and support speculative thought.