Is the future a moment in time or a place in history? Is it an attitude, an orientation, or an affect? Or is it a construction of form and style?
(Schavemaker, Folkerts, Lindner, 2015)

In the context of this module, our suggestion here is that you think of Warburg’s prompts and your visual essay and as a ‘future facing’ form of accumulation that would animate a possible ‘afterlife’ of a present time that you wish to bring into being –to ‘world’– in your own work. They might suggest tangible developments but can also be understood as ‘time capsules’ sent further to an unspecified time/place/situation. 

Finding Fanon 2 was commissioned by Brighton Digital Festival 2015, supported by Arts Council England.

The Finding Fanon series is inspired by the lost plays of Frantz Fanon, (1925-1961) a politically radical humanist whose practice dealt with the psychopathology of colonisation and the social and cultural consequences of decolonisation.

'Originating with science fiction and fantasy writers, the practice of creating imaginary worlds is one that has gone on to influence many contemporary artists today who are experimenting with advanced technologies to create alternate realities and new visions for the future. Here, Alice Bucknell draws a line from the otherworldly, ecological imaginings of writers like Octavia Butler and Ursula K Le Guin to the “digital gardening” practices of artists like Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Jenna Sutela and Ian Cheng...'