Event 3: Contact
Contact movie poster Contact is a hard science fiction novel turned movie exploring humanity’s contact with extraterrestrial life. It follows the story of Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway obsessed with documenting radio communications of some alien life form. Motivated by her deceased father, Ellie struggles to retain funding for her research, until she finally receives signals from space. She, along with other scientists, attempt to decipher their messages, later finding out that Earth was prompted to create a complex transportation device that travels through space. Throughout the modern century, our scientific reality is influenced by art, and art influences scientific discovery. Karel Čapek’s science fiction play R.U.R. labeled humanoid machines as “robots,” thus leading to the wide interest in artificial intelligence in both academia and fiction. ORLAN's Harlequin Coat Contact deals with the struggle between the polarizing conception of co
