Robots, Prosthesis & Artificial Life (2007)

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Guest lecture for Royal College of Art, 2007

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prosthesisrobotics

artificial life

royalcollege

ofwww.a n d y m i a h.net

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?what are robots

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animal

intelligent

perfect

rational

machinic

humanoid

information processors

inhuman androids

cyborgartificial closed

emotional

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p r o s t h e s I s

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aimee mullins / Cremaster 3

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aimee mullins / cheetah legs

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Stelarc /third arm

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‘rudy’ the robot doctor

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r o b o t i c s

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“I’m FT”[femaletype]

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“I’m FT”

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Hal 9000

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A r t i f i c i a l L i f e

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Zizek | organs without bodies

dr strangelove

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Keith Edmier, Beverley Edmier, 1967

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nature vs technologybiology vs artifice

the banal non-functional