Panel Statement

Panel: Assimilate This… Science Fiction and Media Art

Keywords: Speculative objects, Science fiction, Curatorial practice based research, Awfully Wonderful: Science Fiction in Contemporary Art, Performance Space.

In this essay I propose the idea of the ‘speculative object’ as a way of understanding how some artworks and artefacts function in human experience as philosophical tools. I explore the way in which objects materialize science fictional structures, in particular the way they provoke and support speculative thought.

• Lizzie Muller, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

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