Abstract
Terminus Recoded | 2025 | Stephen Roddy | Ireland
The 2025 recoding of the 2014 digital video, Terminus Abruptus wherein the track 'The Life and Death of Terminus Abruptus' is set to visuals from Micro-Commando Diatron-5 (1985) or Space Transformers, which is described by TVTropes.org as a perplexingly insane and incredibly low-quality pseudoanime from South Korea. The makers of the cartoon heavily plagiarized a number of popular animations from the time and has been unfavourably compared to the show Transformers. Nonetheless, the piece portrays Cold War Era fears about the roles of technology, robotics and artificial intelligence in society, albeit through a uniquely capitalist gaze. This digital work recuts the show to a soundtrack that is intended to highlight and draw attention to key salient moments wherin these Cold War anxieties are at their peaks.
The 2025 recoding of the 2014 digital video, Terminus Abruptus wherein the track 'The Life and Death of Terminus Abruptus' is set to visuals from Micro-Commando Diatron-5 (1985) or Space Transformers, which is described by TVTropes.org as a perplexingly insane and incredibly low-quality pseudoanime from South Korea. The makers of the cartoon heavily plagiarized a number of popular animations from the time and has been unfavourably compared to the show Transformers. Nonetheless, the piece portrays Cold War Era fears about the roles of technology, robotics and artificial intelligence in society, albeit through a uniquely capitalist gaze. This digital work recuts the show to a soundtrack that is intended to highlight and draw attention to key salient moments wherin these Cold War anxieties are at their peaks.
| Original language | English (Ireland) |
|---|---|
| Place of Publication | Global |
| Publisher | The Wrong Biennale |
| Edition | 7th |
| Media of output | Film |
| Publication status | Published - 4 Feb 2026 |
UCC Futures
- Future Humanities Institute
Keywords
- Music
- Video
- Animation
- Recut
- sound & music computing
- Digital Art
