Ancient Futurism

Names

• Ancient Futurism
• Ancient Futurisms
• Connected to, but not always the same as Ancestral Futures and Ancestral Futurism(s)

Definitions and Descriptions

• Relating to the broader genre of Futurisms, Ancient Futurism is a style which blends Ancient, Contemporary and Futurist codes. This style or genre can be overlapped with many others and can apply to a specific project or the creator's overall practice.

Artists & Creators

• Aids-3D, Daniel Keller & Nik Kosmas (US-DE)
• Morehshin Allahyari (IR-US)
• Kai (Kari) Altmann aka Hitashya (US-IN-EG-FR)
• Nag Ashwin (IN)
• Luc Besson (FR)
• Roland Emmerich (DE-US)
• Omar Gilani (PK)
• Frank Herbert (US)
• LaFawndah (US-FR-EG-IR)
• Subash Thebe Limbu (NP-UK)
• Sam Madhu (IN-DE)
• Virgil Ortiz (US)
• Rajni Perera (CAN)
• Svetha Yallapragada Rao aka Raja Kumari (US-IN)
• Bhavya Ramesh (IN)
• R-U-In?S, Kai (Kari) Altmann, Iain Ball, Sebastian Moyano, Emily Jones, Matteo Giordano, Sam Hancocks and others (US-UK-IT-AR-AU)
• Marina Satti (GR)
• Colin Self (US-DE)
• Shilo Shiv Suleman (IN)
• Timur Si-Qin (DE)
• Samar Younes aka Samaritual (US)

Discussions

• Remixing ancient culture with contemporary futurism, TEDx Talk by Sam Madhu at TEDxSIUHinjewadi, January 2020.

Publications

Books

• Kai (Kari) Altmann (ed.), R-U-In?S Catalogue #001, 2010. Visual content, art and new editorial spreads culled from the R-U-In?S project in 2009-2010. Includes an essay. Works by Kai (Kari) Altmann, Iain Ball, Matteo Giordano, Sebastian Moyano, Emily Jones, Sam Hancocks.

Essays, Articles, Book Chapters

• "The Ancient Futurism of Rajni Perera", Foyer, Perspectives, March 08 2023.

See Also

Futurisms, Indigenous futurism, Ancestral Futurisms, Afrofuturism, Arab Futurisms, Post-internet art, Crisiscore, Nomadic Futurisms, Intercultural Futurisms, Transcultural Futurisms