Did Inception blow your mind?Then you’ll love the third installment of the Thrilling Wonder Stories conference, a science fiction storytelling marathon taking place simultaneously in New York City and London this weekend. Complete with musical performances, distinguished speakers and demonstrations that include a taxidermy workshop, swarm robotics, live movie soundscapes and some animatronic guests, this is one event that promises to cover all your futuristic bases.The storytelling marathon is the main attraction and will feature stories that probe the depths of your imagination and break the bounds of possibility with fantastical worlds, inventions, and both dark and delightful premonitions for the future. They will test the boundary between the present and future, exploring how our sci-fi fantasies can become reality, while examining the social and technological situations of today and their potential consequences. The event will be livestreamed from London’s Architectural Association and New York’s Studio-X, you can tune in here.Guests include Vincenzo Natali, director of Splice and Cube; scifi author Bruce Sterling; Academy-Award winning special effects designer for Inception, Andy Lockley; concept artist and illustrator for The Matrix and The Fifth Element, Christian Lorenz Scheurer; architect Bjarke Ingels; architect and co-director of The Living, David Benjamin; amongst many other incredible inventors, architects, scientists, and innovators. So tune in, and get ready to have your mind blown, again.
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