It’s fitting that the European renaissance of automata, or kinetic sculptures designed to mimic human movement, began with a clockmaker—like their timekeeping counterparts, automata operate on cue, ...
Even before Mary Shelley imagined the animation of the lifeless in Frankenstein, brilliant minds across Europe – clockmakers, to be exact – were already tinkering in their workshops, breathing life ...
In this thought-provoking discussion, panelists will consider the relationships to—and projections on to—transgender bodies. The speakers will explore the relationship of consciousness to biology, the ...
OK, near-life. Life, exquisitely mimicked. Life so lifelike that it prompts the question: if it isn't alive, what is it? It's an automaton. Also known as a "living doll." A clown strums a ukulele. An ...
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