I ROBOT

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Puzzling on the Pygmalianesque desire to create an other that is not human but one's own. I built a meccano robot, taught it to speak and move as I wanted it, juxtaposing the latex to add a fetishistic frisson, this was shown in a corridor space. The long strip of latex hung from a curtain pole against the wall and the film was projected at floor level against it.

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Research was conversing with cleverbots on line, watching Wall-e, Blade Runner, Ex Machina, Star Wars, Robot Stories, Humans and many more. As well as continuing to read and discuss psycho-analytic thinking about attachment to an object, how much that object has to do, perform or look like to become 'real'.

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Louis Philippe Demers lecturing at Wimbledon said that people will attribute human qualities to very little, we are programmed to see a face, to recognise friend or foe in a shape or movement. We are all cyborgs if we have a mobile phone.

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