Explore the transhumanist future today at TempleCon, New England’s revolutionary Retro-Futurist Convention! Coming to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Warwick, Rhode Island on the weekend of February 1st-3rd, 2013, TempleCon 2013 is your weekend portal into the war for control of the human genome, featuring a plethora of games, performances, workshops, stories, music, vendors, and seminars that explore Retro-Futurist genres such as Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Cyberpunk, and more, with this year’s special focus being Biopunk, that uniquely contemporary vision of enhanced evolution currently re-shaping multiple branches of Retro-Futurism with all its gene-bending glory.
We are seeking costume designers interested in participating in our Biopunk themed fashion show “Intersectional: Fashion, Flesh, and Biohacks.” Biopunk is a cutting-edge trend in speculative fiction, currently far more popular in Japan than in the United States, and profoundly influencing both live-action and animated film in that country. Biopunk has stretched forth its tentacles to touch every single one of the classic retro-futurist genres of speculative fiction and the movies born from those genres. From the classic tale of gothic horror, Frankenstein (artfully re-imagined in Steampunk form) to the Dieselpunk horror of the Mutant Chronicles to the existential angst of the Cyberpunk anime Ghost in the Shell a variety of Retro-Futurist movies incorporate Biopunk themes. How you choose to integrate these into your designs is up to you.
How would you fit your costuming and prop creations into an environment shaped by an unprecedented ability of near-future humanity to sculpt their bodies at the genetic level via gene therapy, or at the cellular level via nano-technology, or at the skeletal level via bone grafting, or at the intra-muscular level via liposuction and implants, or on the surface via tattooing and skin and hair grafting, or modifying sensory input via electro-magnetic implants? How do you see others wearing or wielding your work in such an environment? Does your work hide or reveal such modifications, or the social status that results from them?
In addition to the “Intersectional” fashion show, we also hold an annual “Maker’s Masquerade” costume contest, and will be hosting the Casshern-themed “Neo-Sapien Ball” as well. We are still accepting event submissions for costuming and prop-related workshops and seminars.
For more information, please visit our website located at Welcome to TempleCon.org or our official Facebook page or feel free to contact us directly with fashion show applications and any questions at information@templecon.org.
- Madame Ximon
TempleCon Creative Director & Logistician
www.templecon.org
We are seeking costume designers interested in participating in our Biopunk themed fashion show “Intersectional: Fashion, Flesh, and Biohacks.” Biopunk is a cutting-edge trend in speculative fiction, currently far more popular in Japan than in the United States, and profoundly influencing both live-action and animated film in that country. Biopunk has stretched forth its tentacles to touch every single one of the classic retro-futurist genres of speculative fiction and the movies born from those genres. From the classic tale of gothic horror, Frankenstein (artfully re-imagined in Steampunk form) to the Dieselpunk horror of the Mutant Chronicles to the existential angst of the Cyberpunk anime Ghost in the Shell a variety of Retro-Futurist movies incorporate Biopunk themes. How you choose to integrate these into your designs is up to you.
How would you fit your costuming and prop creations into an environment shaped by an unprecedented ability of near-future humanity to sculpt their bodies at the genetic level via gene therapy, or at the cellular level via nano-technology, or at the skeletal level via bone grafting, or at the intra-muscular level via liposuction and implants, or on the surface via tattooing and skin and hair grafting, or modifying sensory input via electro-magnetic implants? How do you see others wearing or wielding your work in such an environment? Does your work hide or reveal such modifications, or the social status that results from them?
In addition to the “Intersectional” fashion show, we also hold an annual “Maker’s Masquerade” costume contest, and will be hosting the Casshern-themed “Neo-Sapien Ball” as well. We are still accepting event submissions for costuming and prop-related workshops and seminars.
For more information, please visit our website located at Welcome to TempleCon.org or our official Facebook page or feel free to contact us directly with fashion show applications and any questions at information@templecon.org.
- Madame Ximon
TempleCon Creative Director & Logistician
www.templecon.org
