Center for Science and the Imagination | Science Fiction TV Dinner: The Mailbox with Louis Yin and Diane Wong @imagineASU | Uploaded May 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
The Science Fiction TV Dinner series is a launch pad for imaginative, engaging conversations about science, technology, and society. We use science fiction as an inclusive meeting ground where people from diverse professional and intellectual backgrounds can bring their expertise and knowledge to the conversation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve shifted away from TV series and are instead screening short films by talented creators that invite us to explore a range of possible futures.
This episode features “The Mailbox" a short science fiction film about time travel and Chinatowns co-written and directed by Louis Yin. We start by screening the film, and then have a conversation with Louis, a writer and filmmaker based in China, and Diane Wong, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University and a researcher who studies the Asian diaspora and the urban immigrant experience.
During the TV Dinner event, we screened "The Mailbox" in its entirety. In this video, you'll see a the trailer of the film instead.
We would like to thank Storycom for their support and collaboration on this event. Storycom is the first professional story commercialization agency in China, and is dedicated to bringing excellent Chinese SF stories to domestic and global audiences in various formats. Storycom also presents The Shimmer Program to introduce new audiences to Chinese SF. Learn more at twitter.com/ShimmerProgram.
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Check out an exclusive video created to accompany this event, featuring poet, artist, educator, and anthropologist Corey S. Pressman teaching about Martian civilization, quantum cooking, and the future of fermentation.
youtu.be/W_xbM7FL09Y
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About the Center for Science and the Imagination:
The Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University engages in research, outreach and radical collaborations to reinvent our relationship with the future. From writers, artists, and teachers to scientists, engineers, and technologists, we bring diverse intellectual practices together to create visions of the future that are inspiring, inclusive, and imaginative. Learn more at https://csi.asu.edu.
The Science Fiction TV Dinner series is a launch pad for imaginative, engaging conversations about science, technology, and society. We use science fiction as an inclusive meeting ground where people from diverse professional and intellectual backgrounds can bring their expertise and knowledge to the conversation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve shifted away from TV series and are instead screening short films by talented creators that invite us to explore a range of possible futures.
This episode features “The Mailbox" a short science fiction film about time travel and Chinatowns co-written and directed by Louis Yin. We start by screening the film, and then have a conversation with Louis, a writer and filmmaker based in China, and Diane Wong, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University and a researcher who studies the Asian diaspora and the urban immigrant experience.
During the TV Dinner event, we screened "The Mailbox" in its entirety. In this video, you'll see a the trailer of the film instead.
We would like to thank Storycom for their support and collaboration on this event. Storycom is the first professional story commercialization agency in China, and is dedicated to bringing excellent Chinese SF stories to domestic and global audiences in various formats. Storycom also presents The Shimmer Program to introduce new audiences to Chinese SF. Learn more at twitter.com/ShimmerProgram.
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Check out an exclusive video created to accompany this event, featuring poet, artist, educator, and anthropologist Corey S. Pressman teaching about Martian civilization, quantum cooking, and the future of fermentation.
youtu.be/W_xbM7FL09Y
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About the Center for Science and the Imagination:
The Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University engages in research, outreach and radical collaborations to reinvent our relationship with the future. From writers, artists, and teachers to scientists, engineers, and technologists, we bring diverse intellectual practices together to create visions of the future that are inspiring, inclusive, and imaginative. Learn more at https://csi.asu.edu.
