The Aesthetics of Latin American Science Fiction 1: Constructing Visual and Digital Futures

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This panel studies the ways in which Latin American visual artists, film directors, hypermedia creators and digital writers have imagined and distributed a rich variety of visual and digital futures. Papers cover a wide range of media to explore how creators appropriate and transform tropes from international archives of science fiction motifs to articulate their own visions of the future, while they also creatively work around and beyond constraints imposed by resources that cannot be compared to those of Hollywood or societies in which almost unlimited Internet bandwidth is available. A second panel on literary SF complements this session.

Sub Track

• Mass Media and Popular Culture

Session Organizer

• Antonio Córdoba, Manhattan College

Chair

• Antonio Córdoba, Manhattan College

Individual Presentations

• La imaginación desbocada. Políticas de lo estético en la construcción del imaginario visual de la ciencia-ficción. - Silvia G Kurlat Ares

• A World That Never Was: Science Fictional Aesthetics in 'La obra del siglo' - Emily A Maguire, Northwestern University

• Ibero-American Digital Hyper-Punk Fiction: Hackers, Psychos, and Exploited Bodies - Eduardo Ledesma, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Astral Cities?: Science Fiction Futures in Contemporary Brazilian Film - Antonio Córdoba, Manhattan College

• De i+Real al “paquete”: las revistas de ciencia ficción en Cuba - Erick Mota, Centro de Formación Literaria Onelio Jorge Cardoso

Discussant

• Sarah Ann Wells, University of Wisconsin, Madison