Monday, March 31, 2008

Read Science Fiction? Help me out?

I would like to try to compile a list of artists and artforms from future fiction. Fictional people doing things considered in the story to be art but as far as we are concerned are science fiction. Off the top of my head I can think of:

  • Phil Fry and the Holophoner from Futurama
  • Waldo and the Zero Gee Ballet from Heinlein’s “Waldo”
  • Bobby Chumbo (I think) from Gibson’s “Spook Country” – he does “locational meta-tagging” as visual art
  • I guess the band “Disaster Area” and the planet building Magratheans from Adams “Hitchhiker’s Guide” also qualify
That’s the sort of thing I am after.

If you can come up with anything, put it in the comments or send me an email.

kthxbi

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