This essayistic collage work explores the cinematic world of cyberpunk, from sprawling dystopian megacities to the digital playground of cyberspace.

“Hugely enjoyable… Showing recurrent tropes (body modification, ‘jacking in’) and repeated pieces of dialogue (like, “When I was I child I thought as a child…”), the essay shows the ways in which those films of the 1980s and 90s foresaw the Black Mirror surveillance society we’re now facing, along with the outlaw technologies and potential for resistance.” – ArtsHub

RESET is on display as part of ACMI’s exhibition The Future & Other Fictions, which opened 28 November 2024 and runs until 27 April 2025.

Written and edited by Conor Bateman
Curators: Amanda Haskard, Chelsey O’Brien and Liam Young