*Yeah, I plan to show up at the London wing of this event. Although it's slightly embarrassing that I haven't recently speculatively rebuilt a megalopolis with giant interactive slime molds.
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/thrilling-wonder-stories-3.html
(((Check out that line-up. "Speculative Culture" at its finest, ladies and gents.)))
VINCENZO NATALI*
Director of Cube, Splice, and forthcoming feature films based on J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise and Neuromancer by William Gibson
BRUCE STERLING
Scifi author, commentator, and futurist
KEVIN SLAVIN
Game designer and theorist of "how algorithms shape our world"
ANDREW LOCKLEY
Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor for Inception, compositing/2D supervisor for Batman Begins and Children of Men
PHILIP BEESLEY
Digital media artist and experimental architect
CHRISTIAN LORENZ SCHEURER
Concept artist and illustrator for computer games and films such as The Matrix, Dark City, The Fifth Element, and Superman Returns
CHARLIE TUESDAY GATES
Taxidermy artist and sculptor—to lead a live taxidermy workshop
DR. RODERICH GROSS AND THE NATURAL ROBOTICS LAB
Head of the Natural Robotics Lab at the University of Sheffield—to lead a live Swarm Robotics demonstration
GAVIN ROTHERY
Concept artist for Duncan Jones's film Moon
GUSTAV HOEGEN
Animatronics engineer for Hellboy, Clash of the Titans, and Ridley Scott’s forthcoming film Prometheus
JULIAN BLEECKER
Designer, technologist, and researcher at the Los Angeles-based Near Future Laboratory
RADIO SCIENCE ORCHESTRA
Theremin-led electro-acoustic ensemble
SPOV
Motion graphics artists for Discovery Channel’s Future Weapons and Project Earth
ZELIG SOUND
Music, composition, and sound design for film and television
Better yet, Matt Jones of the ultra-talented design studio BERG will join Liam Young to serve as co-host for the day. Here's a map for how to get there; the event is free but space is limited.
That same day—Friday, October 28th—over at Studio-X NYC, Thrilling Wonder Stories 3 will kick off at 1pm local time, lasting till 4 or 4:30pm. Speaking that day are:
NICHOLAS DE MONCHAUX
Architect and author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo
HARI KUNZRU
Novelist and author of Gods Without Men, Transmission, and The Impressionist
BJARKE INGELS
Architect, WSJ Magazine 2011 architectural innovator of the year, and author of Yes Is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution
SETH FLETCHER
Science writer and author of Bottled Lightning: Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy
JACE CLAYTON AND LINDSAY CUFF OF NETTLE
Nettle’s new album, El Resplandor, is a speculative soundtrack for an unmade remake of The Shining, set in a luxury hotel in Dubai
Then, Saturday, October 29th, everything comes to a close with an epic second day—from 2-7pm—at Studio-X NYC, featuring:
JAMES FLEMING
Historian and author of Fixing The Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control
MARC KAUFMAN
Science writer for the Washington Post and author of First Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth
ANDREW BLUM
Journalist and author of Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
DAVID BENJAMIN
Architect and co-director of The Living
DEBBIE CHACHRA
Researcher and educator in biological materials and engineering design, featured in Wired UK's 2010 "Year In Ideas"
HOD LIPSON
Researcher in evolutionary robotics and the future of 3D printing
CARLOS OLGUIN
Designer at Autodesk Research working on the intersection of bio-nanotechnology and 3D visualization
CHRIS WOEBKEN
Interaction designer
SIMONE FERRACINA
Architect, winner of the 2011 Animal Architecture Awards, and author of Organs Everywhere
DAVE GRACER
Insect agriculturalist at Small Stock Foods
ANDREW HESSEL
Science writer and open-source biologist, focusing on bacterial genomics
