Retro futurism
Retro-futurism , also called retrofuturism , denotes the idea of the future that prevailed in the past and that we look at retrospectively from today . The term was first used in 1983 by American media artist Lloyd Dunn. According to Stewart Home , retrofuturism is “modernity after the conditions of postmodernism ”; the best-known variant of retrofuturism is steampunk .
Visions of the future
Visions of the future of the past are numerous documented in science and art. In the creative context, these visions of the future manifest themselves particularly in the field of science fiction . Ideas of the future are inevitably influenced by the perception of the respective present and this time dependency becomes clear in retrospect. Examples are the silent film Journey to the Moon , the animated series The Jetsons , the series Spaceship Enterprise or the film Alarm in Space . Many people find it particularly attractive to compare these fictitious documents from literature, film, music and painting from the past with the development that has actually occurred. A defining term is that of “tomorrow that never was”.
(Retro) futurism in art and design
Retro-Futurism also describes a movement in art and design that consciously refers to the future visions of the past in new works. Many designers orientate themselves on the work of Luigi Colani , whose design was fed by the examination of the future and who is considered the most important German future designer , or on the Googie style. Often the retro elements are put in a new context. In the film, there is an explicit example of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow from 2004, which was recorded with modern digital technology and whose equipment is reminiscent of older science fiction films such as Metropolis , Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers . Further examples of outdated ideas about the future are in Back to the Future 2 and 2001: A Space Odyssey . Retrofuturistic motifs can also be found very often in completely computer-animated films such as Robots and The Incredibles , in computer games or in drawn comics. In literature, retrofuturistic motifs are reinterpreted, for example, in the steampunk genre .
discussion
In the media discussion of the retro wave, there were considerations that preoccupation with the past would stand in the way of preoccupation with the future and would have escapist tendencies. While the original goal of retrofuturism was to find ideas for the future in the past, the result is often just another style of pop culture . When asked what could come after retrofuturism, the latter gave no answer. When looking at the perspectives of the past, there is also a lack of clarity because aesthetic trends from several decades are mixed with modern ideas about the future. Thus, retrofuturism is "fake history". Nevertheless, preoccupation with the visions of the future of the past is seen as a legitimate starting point for shaping one's own future, because there new strength can be drawn by reflecting on old, known values. The idea of "progress by looking back" is a pretty and productive paradox.
literature
- Karl Böhm, Rolf Dörge: Our world of tomorrow. Man and his world , New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1959.
- Birkel (ed.): The world of tomorrow. Birkel scrapbook , 1959.
- Tommy Laeng: Future dreams from yesterday, today, the day after tomorrow , Berlin a. a. (Lit Verlag) 2010. ISBN 978-3-643-10675-9
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b page no longer available , search in web archives: Retrofuturism on cyberbrain-cafe.ch
- ↑ Oliver Marchart : "Neo-Dadaistischer Retro-Futurismus" or: How Stewart Home invented the avant-garde ( memento of the original from January 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on sammelpunkt.philo.at
- ↑ René Walter: Retrofuturism: 2008 from the perspective of 1968 on nerdcore.de (German / English)
- ↑ Henry Jenkins: "The Tomorrow That Never Was": Retrofuturism in the Comics of Dean Motter (Part One) on henryjenkins.org (English)
- ↑ Retro-News on retro-futurismus.de
- ↑ Stefan Schultz: Retro-Art: The wondrous world of steampunks. In: Spiegel Online. July 4, 2007, accessed June 9, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Niklas Maak: Nostalgia and Style: Retrofuturism is a fake story. In: Spiegel Online. June 5, 2005, accessed June 9, 2015 .
- ↑ A Techno-UFO for James Bond ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in art-magazin.de
- ↑ Michael Staiger: Body Pictures in Film of the 90s , Freiburg 2001.
- ↑ Retrofuturism on netzfischer.eu
- ↑ History on pwp.detritus.net (English)
