[Atompunk] call for atompunk artists and exploring of concept definition

[John Harrigan]

I think that the game aesthetics and story line of Fallout falls  
firmly within the Atompunk concept.

http://fallout.bethsoft.com/index.html

John Harrigan

w:        FoolishPeople.org/JohnHarrigan.com




On 4 Dec 2008, at 20:14, Viola wrote:

> ATOMPUNK
>
> Tags: atom sputnik kosmonautic communism nuclear powerplants Jetsons  
> Gagarin
> communist paranoia man-on-the-moon Googie architecture mid-century  
> modernism
> utopian futurism pre-digital punk communism paranoia space cyber  
> oldnasa kgb
> east german gear industrial militairy power worlddomination
>
> Atompunk is a concept, what ideas exist about it? We'd like to  
> develop this
> concept together.
> Now 2009, 20 years after the fall of the iron curtain, how do we  
> reflect on
> the period 45-65 as artists, architects, designers, philosophers,  
> scolars.
> What does this cultural heritage of that period mean for us,  
> currently, for
> artists, designers, politicians, activists, historicans..
> What can we do with this when we think of a multi media festival on
> Atompunk?
>
> What how can the concept of Atompunk be described? What's Real  
> Atompunk?
> And which artists / projects. Do you perhaps have ideas or know any?  
> Any
> crazy people we should meet?
>
> (and how much retro futurism, sci fi can be done.. and where's the  
> Punk
> element: where's the critisism, turning things upside down, do-it- 
> yourself,
> against space-age glamour, how can you punk the atom era, and how  
> can you
> punk the communist paranoia?)
>
> What would look cool? What images do we think of, when thinking of  
> Atompunk?
>
>
> Viola :)
>
> -
> www.planetart.nl
> multi media art trash noise temporary autonomous zones underground
>
>
> (short video of openingnight GOGBOT08 on Steampunk:
> http://www.vimeo.com/1763848 )
>
>
>
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