The Culture & Technology Podcast

Alice Bucknell: Ways of Worlding

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The politics and poetics of building worlds

GUEST

Alice Bucknell (she, they) is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. Working with game engines and speculative fiction, their practice examines interconnections of architecture, ecology, magic, and nonhuman and machine intelligence. https://alicebucknell.com/

HOST

Severin Matusek is a cultural theorist and founder of co—matter, a creative studio exploring the cultural and societal impact of new technologies.

IDEAS AND PEOPLE IN CONTEXT

  • E-Z Kryptobuild is a work of speculative fiction that responds to architecture’s role in producing systems of global inequity and the climate emergency. https://alicebucknell.com/projects/e-z-kryptobuild
  • Critical fabulation is the combining of historical and archival research with critical theory and fictional narrative to fill in the blanks left in the historical record. https://tools.bard.edu/wwwmedia/files/7498724/6/AR317_Critical%20Fabulation.pdf
  • Swamp City imagines the Florida Everglades as a luxury eco-tourism retreat in a near-future reality of severe climate disruption. https://alicebucknell.com/projects/swamp-city
  • The Martian Word for World is Mother merges science-fiction strategies with a critical approach to contemporary proposals for the habitation of Mars. https://alicebucknell.com/projects/the-martian-word-for-world-is-mother-2022
  • The Alluvials is a video work and playable game that explores the politics of drought and water scarcity in a near-future version of Los Angeles. https://alicebucknell.com/projects/the-alluvials-the-game-2024
  • Unreal Engine is a series of 3D computer graphics game engines developed by Epic Games. https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US

    • CREDITS

    The Vienna Business Agency supports new companies, projects and products that develop Vienna's creative industries further. Find out more at viennabusinessagency.at.

    Editorial Team (in alphabetical order): Carina Dala, Kesia Inkersole, Severin Matusek, Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör, Theresa Reimann-Dubbers, Alice Smith, Heinz Wolf

    Theme Music by Hell Mutang.

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