Kim Kardashian: an artist’s guide to the future

A dystopian view of the future locks art and culture into a virtual world where everyone lives a Kardashian-style online augmented existence.
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It is impossible to know exactly what the future holds; however walking through a landscape created from an embellishment of the present might be the next best thing.

Swapping a crystal ball for a combination of fiction, film and performance, speculative architect Liam Young investigates emerging trends and uncovers the signals of a possible tomorrow. His aim: to help today’s populace reconsider the way they think, and to motivate them into participating in piecing together a new picture of the future.

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Sarah Ward
About the Author
Sarah Ward is a freelance film critic, arts and culture writer, and film festival organiser. She is the Australia-based critic for Screen International, a film reviewer and writer for ArtsHub, the weekend editor and a senior writer for Concrete Playground, a writer for the Goethe-Institut Australien’s Kino in Oz, and a contributor to SBS, SBS Movies and Flicks Australia. Her work has been published by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Junkee, FilmInk, Birth.Movies.Death, Lumina, Senses of Cinema, Broadsheet, Televised Revolution, Metro Magazine, Screen Education and the World Film Locations book series. She is also the editor of Trespass Magazine, a film and TV critic for ABC radio Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast, and has worked with the Brisbane International Film Festival, Queensland Film Festival, Sydney Underground Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival. Follow her on Twitter: @swardplay