1. Dreaming up a Future…
Sci-Fi’s self awareness

2. Science Fiction Images
• Technology
• Urban Landscapes
• Aliens
• Media
 Generic Exhaustion – Standard Repetition

3. 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

4. Urban Landscapes
Modernist Iconography
&
Postmodern Decay

5. A Rose stays a Rose…

6. Media
Aliens

7. Technology

8. Anicom-SciFi
Animated (self aware) / Sit-Com Conventions / In-Jokes / Future Playground
Science-Driven / self-reflexive parody

9. 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

10. Approaching Sci-Fi approaching Reality