A crop of “Number 6″ by Scott Listfield from a new art show in Los Angeles.Image: Gallery 1988
“I have a lot of questions about how the future might look, and I don’t want an algorithm to draw them. So let’s do it instead.” With that sentence, artist Scott Listfield tasked a group of artists with digging into their imaginations, finding their vision of the future, and putting in the present for all of us to see.
The result is “The Sci-Fi Show,” a multimedia art exhibit that’ll be on display via Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles, CA from 7-10 p.m. January 5 at 1056 S. Fairfax Ave. As most of you don’t live in Los Angeles though, it seemed obvious that io9 readers would find the work both beautiful to look at and fascinating to consider. So Listfield and Gallery 1988 allowed us to highlight a selection of work in the show in the following slides, along with some commentary from Listfield himself.
“I’m an artist. Not a scientist, not a futurist, and not even all that much of a curator. But in a time where AI and algorithms and Amazon devices are increasingly doing the talking for us, I wanted to let the artists in this show talk about the future, in their own words,” Listfield told io9. “And so I, along with the folks at Gallery 1988, invited a bunch of people to be in my sci-fi show.”
Check out several images here, and see the full show in person on Friday, January 5, and online tomorrow, January 6 at nineteeneightyeight.com.