Tag Archives: neuromancer
The Original “Matrix”
If an artist has a pedigree, Gibson is surely the Wachowski Brothers’ grandfather. Just finished reading William Gibson’s Neuromancer, the origin of the both the term “matrix” as it is used in The Matrix, and the word “cyberspace” as it is used in real life. (In fact, it may have well had a hand in the […]
Popular Fiction as High Art
As an artist I consider my self eclectic and postmodern. One of the tenants of postmodernism is that of recycled culture, and the influence of both “high art” and “low art” (i.e., popular culture) without distinction. John Storey, in his book Cultural Theory and Popular Culture, states that the postmodern approach would “no longer recognize the […]
