Imagining mannequined retail air patrolled by pesky laser fields…
A lonely AI sings the blues.
How do you top over the top?
Pyres of code in the writeable sky.
“These people want to be at home in the Universe.”
Machine, mind, and music.
Virtuosic mimicry meets techno-geek genius.
Vector vs. anomaly at the mannequin factory.
Architecture in the Age of Conceptual Reproduction
What’s cooking in the uncanny valley?
Hatsune Miku and crowdsourced charisma.
Clement Valla’s postcards from an imaging catastrophe.
Your phone can writhe in agony as you have that awkward conversation!
Integrating the technopsychic apparatus.
A sound piece that needs to be seen.
If androids do not yet dream, they certainly speak.
Embedded cameras in guys and dolls.
Do not taunt happy panda suit.
An idea whose time has come.
Full body scan burlesque.
Info pr0n gets physical. And — hermaphroditic?
Baby you can drive my hovercar.
Animation gets a Shinto wilding.
Just lie back and put on your visor and body armor.
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