‘Cyberpunk’ opens at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

“We are living in our imagined future,” Academy Museum curator Doris Berger writes in her Introduction to Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures through Cinema. “The current debates about artificial general intelligence and cybersecurity, the fear of sentient machines harming humanity, and the destruction of our environment due to climate change connect our lived reality with cyber¬punk narratives. These bleak scenarios—stable ingredients of futurist cinema since the late 1970s—feel so familiar now, as many of those imaginations have become real. Cyberpunk narratives combine cybernetics and digital culture with a punk attitude. They explore and reflect on topics such as new tech¬nologies, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, cyborgs, hacking culture, capitalism, colonialism, and race, gender, and class relations as well as climate change, often through a defiant approach toward established hierarchies. As these stories present visions of the future on our planet rather than in faraway galaxies, they also comment on our earthly past and present. … As digital media theorist Jason Edward Lewis once stated, “We’re all immigrants in cyberspace.’” Pictured here, Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Cameron during production of The Terminator (1984).

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