Cyborg Futures: Where Science Meets Fiction

As we head toward a post-human future, there are many ethical questions to consider. One proponent of interdisciplinary conversations around technology is Dr. Teresa Heffernan (Professor of English, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax), who has organized the Cyborg Futures Workshop, happening in Halifax this weekend. RECURSOR: What motivated you to start a conversation between science and other disciplines? Where do you see science and fiction colliding? HEFFERNAN:  Fiction often gets mobilized in the tech world as, “This is our future; this is fiction becoming fact.” Robotics and artificial intelligence has.
As we head toward a post-human future, there are many ethical questions to consider. One proponent of interdisciplinary conversations.

Sci Fi with a Twist: The Mystery of RESET

A young girl named Sofie (Wilma Hedberg) resides with her mother (Cecilia Milocco) on a vast, isolated farm at the turn of the 20th century. To ease Sofie’s loneliness, her mother reads to her letters she receives daily from her beloved absentee father. One fateful day, however, Sofie discovers a shocking secret about her family and farm that will change her reality forever. RESET is a gripping sci-fi mystery with a mind-bending twist you won’t see coming. Created by Swedish filmmaking duo Fredrik Akerström and Marcus Kryler, the short is also beautifully acted and gorgeously shot. In fact, the vivid.
A young girl named Sofie (Wilma Hedberg) resides with her mother (Cecilia Milocco) on a vast, isolated farm at the turn of.

New Voices, Global Fans: The Boston Science Fiction Film Festival Turns 42

Some things improve with age, and that includes film festivals. We spoke with festival director Garen Daly about the lasting impact of the Boston Science Fiction Film Festival (Boston SciFi) and its continuing dedication to bringing genre films to an intelligent, eager audience. “We are a boutique film festival that specializes in high end storytelling,” Daly explains. The event includes nine days of short films, full length features, webisodes, workshops and more. The final day is a 24-hour film marathon, with an in-memoriam feature, cartoons, trailers, sing-along and, of.
Some things improve with age, and that includes film festivals. We spoke with festival director Garen Daly about the.

Indie Sci Fi Film “One Under the Sun” Imagines a World without War

One strength of science fiction is its capacity to ask hard questions about the world we live in and offer new ways of thinking about them. We chatted with husband and wife team, Vincent Tran and Riyaana Hartley, about their indie sci fi think piece, One Under the Sun. RECURSOR: Tell us about the concept behind One Under the Sun. What’s it about? VINCENT TRAN (VT): We wanted to propose an idea — what would it take to have a day without war? The world is so complicated and so layered that people can’t imagine it..
One strength of science fiction is its capacity to ask hard questions about the world we live in and.

Sci Fi Thriller: The Making of Agent with Derek Ting

We chatted with Derek Ting, who recently produced his first science fiction-themed feature Agent, about creating a sci fi thriller, what inspires his work, and more. RECURSOR: What led you to make an independent science fiction feature? DEREK TING: I’ve always loved science fiction. It started when I saw Return of the Jedi as a kid (and subsequently all of the other ones). Aliens, Terminator, and Predator are also some of my favorites growing up. I always wanted to make a science fiction movie, but I didn’t want to.
We chatted with Derek Ting, who recently produced his first science fiction-themed feature Agent, about creating a sci fi.

Fiction Meets Fact: Robotics in Today’s Sci Fi

How do you watch a film that plays with scientific principles, especially when you’re an expert who knows exactly where the film is getting it right…and wrong? That’s the dilemma faced many of the scientists we interview here at Recursor. As we chatted about robotics with Vassar College’s John Long (read the interview here), we asked him his thoughts on which science fiction films handle the science of robotics accurately. One of the biggest challenges in making robotics believable in films is a problem that plagues other genres too.
How do you watch a film that plays with scientific principles, especially when you’re an expert who knows exactly.

Parsing the Robotic Future with Vassar’s John Long

Asking when robots will take over the world sounds like a review of Robopocalypse. Yet with recent advances in artificial intelligence, everyone is chiming in on the subject, even the New York Times. How do you separate conjecture from real science? You call an expert! We spoke with John Long, Professor of Cognitive Science and Biology at Vassar College, and Director of the Interdisciplinary Robotics Research Laboratory, about the current state of robotics. Long is well suited for robotics research. “I started out as a biologist specializing in biomechanics, which studies how.
Asking when robots will take over the world sounds like a review of Robopocalypse. Yet with recent advances in artificial.