Elena KNOX “Actroid Series II”

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Virtual assistants manage our lives, and robots pretend to be friends. Totemism, idolatry, and fetishism – through these, we attempt to solve our ultimate loneliness in the galaxy. Digital portraits that embed an organic male gaze into robots modelled after young women critique the subtle takeover of society by patriarchal surveillance in the form of quasi-feminine technologies. Chatbots and holographic characters offer problematic glimpses of a futuristic work-life fantasy.

Period	2021/12/4 (Sat) - 2022/1/16 (Sun)
Closed	12/6, 12/13, 12/20, 12/27-1/3, 1/11
Time	11:00-19:00
Admission	Free
Venue	Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo: Space A (1F)
Cooperation	Ishiguro Laboratory, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University (Otonaroid) / Lindsay WEBB
Support	Watanabe Laboratory, Department of Intermedia Art & Science, Waseda University

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Artist Talk

Date	12/25 (Sat) 17:00-
Admission	Free　*Booking required
Speaker	Elena KNOX FUKUHARA Shiho Shiho Fukuhara is engaged in developing new technology and platforms to integrate intelligence into our everyday things, with the purpose of investigating how creations with technology and traditional crafts critically reflect our consciousness of physicality, aesthetics, materiality. Fukuhara graduated with a Masters in Interaction Design at RCA in 2003. In 2004, she established Biopresence Ltd. in London with Georg Tremmel and they formed BCL, an artistic research framework, in 2007.
Language	Japanese/English (Interpreter: AKIYAMA Juri)

Profile

Born in 1975. Knox’s art extends across digital media, performance, sculpture, sound, music and installation. Recent works use state-of-the-art Japanese robots to audition roles of identity and belief in scientific and technological futures.
http://www.elenaknox.com/

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Elena KNOX