Filip Hodas Pop Culture Dystopia
This article review's Prague-based digital artitst Filip Hodas' Pop Culture Dystopia Part II series. The images are made using 3D digital modeling. They depict pop culture icons reimagined as ruins in the distant future. The article praises Hodas' work as lifelike and engaging. Hodas brings a new perspective to familiar images, attempting to view them in the ways that we view ancient egyptian or greek art today - as mysterious ruins. Though the same images could potentially have been made in another medium, the fact that many of the pop culture icons originally existed as digital works (e.g. Spongebob in an animated tv series) make 3D digital modeling an especially appropriate medium for this work. We do not tend to think of digital works as decaying in the same way the physical art. Imagining a digital world with decay and death brings our attention on the ephemeral nature of the physical world. It also presents a dystopian view of the world - as in, for example, the poem Ozymandius, the viewer is left imagining what might happened to these icons to leave them rusted and lifeless. Though in some ways whimsical, these pieces are a powerful reminder that nothing is permanent.
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