I picked Asian Futurism: Anime, Legend, and SF and Mixed-Identity Cyborgs and Hybrid Futurism.
From the ppts which i attached, picking one art work on each paper(one is in Asian, another is in Mixed-Identity) and compare them with the requirements.
I do need speakers notes and length is going be in 15 minutes.
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Groups of students will present a comparative analysis between two case studies
(films or visual art) of their choice from two different lectures, with support from assigned readings. Students will
be asked to compare and contrast themes discussed in the course lectures and case studies they chose, and what
the differences and similarities are historically and theoretically, or in terms of experiences of those portrayed in
the works. An example of such an analysis is: comparing and contrasting works from one of the Indigenous
Futurist weeks with Afrofuturism, and using case studies with Ytasha L. Womack’s discussion of Afrofuturist
work that travels back in time to eradicate slavery with works that show futurist African societies not touched by
colonialism or slavery, such as Black Panther (dir. Ryan Coogler, 2018) in dialogue with Grace L. Dillon’s
Native Slipstream theory. Students would then be expected to use a case study found either in class or of their
own choosing, such as Sonny Assu’s (Kwakwaka’wakw) series of paintings that superimpose images of
‘desolate’ North-West Coast Indigenous communities (by Emily Carr and such) with that of futuristic
Kwakwaka’wakw ovoids mimicking spaceships taking Indigenous people away to not suffer the fate of
colonialism. Another example would be students analysing the representation of Monsters in SF in Polish or
Japanese films and compare it the theoretical texts on Feminist SF and female representation. Tomek Baginski’s
Jaga (2016) features a beautiful but dangerous ‘monster’ woman, not dissimilar to the Japanese representations of
monster women shown in class.
The purpose is not to suggest that everyone has the same experience or erasure of unique experiences, but to
show possible dialogues that are possible, between various communities, through the lens of speculative art and
fiction.
