Stuart Candy

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About me

Industry Arts
Occupation Experiential Futurist
Location Los Angeles, CA, United States
Introduction Experiential futurist. Distinguished Visiting Professor of Critical Futures at Tecnológico de Monterrey; Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Bristol. Director of Situation Lab; co-editor of Design and Futures; co-creator of The Thing From The Future and The Futures Bazaar. Chair of the Center for PostNatural History; Fellow of The Long Now Foundation. Short portfolio here; full bio here.
Interests filmmaking, travel, food, languages, underground culture
Favorite Movies Eternal Sunshine, Her, Children of Men, Amelie, Arrival, The Matrix, Reservoir Dogs, Life of Brian, Westworld, The Prestige, Minority Report, Traffic, A Few Good Men, Delicatessen, Gallipoli, Inception, Terminator 2, The Thin Red Line, Gattaca, Breaking the Waves, Casablanca, Barry Lyndon, The Truman Show, This Is Spinal Tap, Breaker Morant, Koyaanisqatsi & Baraka, Borat, Solaris [both versions]
Favorite Music Radiohead, Andrew Bird, Cliff Martinez, The National, Arcade Fire, Brian Eno, Augie March, Gomez, Elbow, Counting Crows, Chicane, Powderfinger, Coldplay, Beck, Boris Kovač & Ladaaba Orchest, Redgum, Paul Kelly, Shpongle, U2
Favorite Books Vonnegut, Orwell, Dahl, Watts, Céline, Lindqvist, DFW, Trickster Makes This World, The Gift, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Finite and Infinite Games, The Clock of the Long Now, How Buildings Learn, Knots, The Songlines