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Pills, Laughs, Dystopia, and SkullFuck: a review of Drugs and Wires
Close your eyes and picture the nineties. Imagine the Windows 94 logo as if on a black computer screen, jagged with thick pixels and bleached by the bright light of the cathode tube behind the monitor...
Saga of the Killing Angel: A Review of Gunnm
I’m not much of a manga reader. For some reason, I find it difficult to focus on digest-sized pages printed in black and white, and sometimes it’s difficult to follow the action if there&#...
Is cyberpunk a sentient light bulb? – A review of Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.
Thomas Pynchon is widely regarded as one of the most influential of American novelists. Famously secretive, little is known of his whereabouts, save from two memorable cameos in The Simpsons. Gravity’...
Ryoji Ikeda: An Aesthetic of Code and Big Data
One of the most exciting artists active today, cyberpunk and beyond, is France-based Japanese visual artist and musician Ryoji Ikeda (born 1966 in Gifu, Japan). In 2014, Ikeda was commissioned for the...
ReTech – Cyberpunk Reclamation Art
ReTech is an art project run by the artist Asher. All of Asher’s work is accomplished by reclaiming disused, antiquated technology to be repurposed as art. The motto “Ars Ex Machina”...
Your Favourite Visual Style for Cyberpunk? [Poll]
Neon Dystopia has been growing. Whether we’re talking about the size of the team, the number of articles produced, the traffic heading to the website, or the projects we have in the pipeline. Ev...