Class 4 - High Tech, Low Life

Today (snow storm. everyone zooms):

Schedule:

• Cyberpunk Documentaries and Discussion
  • Cyberpunk Part 1
  • Queen of Cyberpunk in Japan
• Cyberpunk today
  • media
  • discussions
• Group meetings

Queen of Cyberpunk in Japan - Cybermom

Cyberpunk Documentary

Influences:

Graphic Novels:

• The Long Tomorrow
• 2000AD
• Neuromancer (graphic novel version)

Stories:

• Johnny Mnemonic (William Gibson)
• Burning Chrome (William Gibson)
• We can remember it for you wholesale (Philip K. Dick)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Philip K. Dick)

Film:

• Trancers
• The Terminator
• Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future
• Robocop
• The Running Man

Anime:

• Bubblegum Crisis
• Akira

Games

• Snatcher (Dreamcast)
• Neuromancer video game (Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS) (play online at Internet Archive)

Second Life documentary by Means TV

CW: digitally-depicted sex

Dos Viruses

Shared in class:

Georges Polti’s 36 Dramatic Situations - Michael brought up that most stories/themes can be found within one of these 36 situations

Group meetings

Review mood board, plan, materials list

Next week: Get in touch to pick up supplies from Lee on 2/21

In-class on 27th: hardware build-out, 3d printing and laser cutting demo

Cyberdeck project due March 5