From the rain-soaked streets of Blade Runner to the gravity-defying digital world of Tron, and more. Discover how cyberpunk's gritty visual world was shaped by 1980s politics, detective noir, anime, ziggurat architecture, and the extraordinary imagination of artist Syd Mead.

Featuring Graham Murphy, Anna McFarlane, and Elon Solo.

The Imagined Futures miniseries is produced in partnership with The Public Domain Review. https://publicdomainreview.org/

RELATED LINKS:

Object Substack: https://object.substack.com/

Hugh Ferriss and retrofuturist ziggurats (Public Domain Review): https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/modern-babylon-ziggurat-skyscrapers-and-hugh-ferriss-retrofuturism/

The 1984 Apple Macintosh commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I

EPISODE CREDITS:

Host, research & production: Ferren Gipson

Music: Tom Lloyd

Object cover art: Anna Bu Kliewer

Learn more at objectstories.co

Follow Ferren on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/ferrengipson/

From the juke joint scenes in the Oscar-winning film Sinners to Parliament-Funkadelic album covers and beyond, explore how Afrofuturism's visual history can be traced through comics, music, data visualisation, and contemporary art.

Featuring Ytasha Womack and Reynaldo Anderson.

RELATED LINKS:

Object: https://objectstories.co/

Before Yesterday We Could Fly at the Met: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/afrofuturist-period-room

W.E.B. Du Bois's hand-drawn infographics: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/w-e-b-du-bois-hand-drawn-infographics-of-african-american-life-1900/

EPISODE CREDITS:

Host, research & production: Ferren Gipson

Music: Tom Lloyd

Object cover art: Anna Bu Kliewer

The Imagined Futures miniseries is produced in partnership with The Public Domain Review. https://publicdomainreview.org/

Learn more at objectstories.co

Follow @ferrengipson on Instagram

Explore an early version of a Jurassic park with the quirky dinosaur sculptures at Crystal Palace Park. In this bonus episode, we take a detour from our Imagined Futures miniseries to think about how scientists and artists imaged the very distant, pre-historic past.

Featuring Nancy Rose Marshall.

RELATED LINKS: Object: https://objectstories.co/ Crystal Palace Dinosaurs: https://cpdinosaurs.org/

EPISODE CREDITS: Host, research & production: Ferren Gipson Music: Tom Lloyd Object cover art: Anna Bu Kliewer

Learn more at objectstories.co Follow @ferrengipson on Instagram