- Venue
- Millais Off-site Projects
- Starts
- Thursday, March 25, 2010
- Ends
- Sunday, July 4, 2010
- Address
- Foyer, Sir James Matthews Building, Southampton Solent University, Above Bar Street, Southampton, SO14 7NN
- Location
- South East England
Roy Brown, Karen David, Lee MacKinnon, Steven Pippin, Tom Smith, Andrea Stokes, Emma Tod. This exhibition presents work by artists who are influenced by forms of science fiction, whether through literature, television or film. Science fiction has long been an established part of popular culture. However, today it is increasingly difficult to separate scientific fact from fiction, perhaps one reason why the genre endures and continues to provoke complex questions regarding nature, progress and ethics. Certainly, in these times of recession and uncertainty there seems to be an increased interest in the subject, influenced by the fact that science fiction often seems to pre-empt the uncanny and seemingly impossible march of techno-scientific progress. Emergent themes in science fiction include environmental disaster, the implications of globalisation, immigration and otherness, cyber-technology and robotics, biotechnology and nanotechnology, outer space, and even uncertainty regarding what constitutes nature itself. Science fiction is also about the realm of future possibilities. This exhibition reveals work by artists who consider themes from ufology and social anxiety to spirituality as an instrument of social criticism, and strange or unexplained phenomena.
