Editing Infrared (section)

==== Promotion of Science Fiction ====
Infrared's aesthetic orientation heavily draws from the science fiction genre, drawing from Landian notions of time and hyperstition as well as an interpretation of the present orientation of Chinese cinema. According to Haz Al-Din, contemporary socialist realism must be based on science fiction as the realization of the future has become an ever-present, unavoidable and objective realty.

How the future is being realized, related to and imagined is an unavoidable part of the post-capitalist civilization humanity has long begun to transition into. Infrared views the purpose of contemporary art to lie in giving expression to the lofty aspirations of humanity, as long as they do not serve as a medium with which to escape the contradictions of reality rather than reconcile them.

Major aesthetic inspirations Infrared draws from include, but are not limited to:

* Death Stranding
* The Wandering Earth 
* The Three Body Problem
* The Terminator series
* The Works of Fan Wennan

Chinese science fiction artist Fan Wennan was among the first to be interviewed by Infrared, even before Haz began livestreaming.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhooFz-Tfz8</ref>