When Dr. Richard Wallace created his Award-Winning "ChatBot"
named A.L.I.C.E., he further blurred the lines between animate
and inanimate. Soon after, when Chatbots became little more than
customer service reps it became clear that Robots, Chatbots and
Humans have a lot in common: Drudgery.
Wallace was wrong when he said that “all humans are robots.”
Correction, sir:We’re NoBots.
Amazing that the human body, so finite, tangible and mortal,
can be the container of dreams – intangible and infinite. To
get our minds deeper into the dream world we turned to
Satoshi Kon’s Paprika. And we brought with us our very own dream dictionary
Dolls of Innocence
Anatomical. Androgynous. Disturbing. Un-nerving. Unsettling. The dolls that inspired Oshii’s Innocence blur the line between animate and inanimate. Welcome to Oshii’s Doll House
What happened to the sexy cyborgs
of the early 90s? Are they all dead
or maybe deleted? Neither, actually.
As it turns out they’ve been hiding
out in Montreal, Quebec. And they’re
looking pretty stylish. Check out
Canada’s Cyborg Fashion
Being in your right mind but the
wrong body is the dilemma of
dualism and the inspiration
behind Trans-Somaticism
Some people aren’t real,
but they should be. You’ll
find many such people in
The Real World of zu Pan
Dead Man Walking...and running,
and jumping, and javelling and
pretty much anything else that a
dead man shouldn’t do.
See what else the living dead is
up to in the Body Worlds Exhibition
Hans Bellmer didn’t blur the line
between art and porn. Quite the
opposite. But to see the art in
these deviant dolls, you have to
read between the lines, and the
legs of Hans Bellmer’s Dolls
For $166,000 you can have
ASIMO the walking robot.
For a click of a button you
can haveA Dancing Robot
If you think serious humor is
an oxymoron, then so is the
medical business. Here’s a
sadly funny look at Pharma’s
Future – and yours.
Male or female? In the case of Claude Cahun, the answer is all of the above. Check out the rebellious life of The Androgyne
Plastic surgery and media images have given evolution some competition. At least, according to Wang Du’ s new definition ofThe PostHuman.
