The Uncanny Transhuman: Tamar Levine and Rob Sheridan

The Tale of the Self-Healing Robot

Heralded and Unheralded Movie Robots from Yesteryear

Eyegiene: The Televisual Age of Sex and Race: What Are You Up To on November 19, 2010 at 10am!? ...

Eyegiene: The Televisual Age of Sex and Race: What Are You Up To on November 19, 2010 at 10am!? ...: "I am going to be delivering a piece from my new book EYEGIENE as part of a lecture series at the San Diego Museum of Art, SDMA on the morni..."

The Ersatz Human: Gorllaz/Brian McCarty Edition

thanks to MW Harper for sharing the link!

Cool Sci-Fi Covers!

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leon ferrari: more meditations on the ersatz human

The Real-Life Orgasmatron: Nothing Obscene About this Machine

Hit the image for the link; my thanks to Sam Wood for the reference.

Bizarre Giant Baby!

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More on the Ersatz Human: Maria Bychcova

Crazy New Meerkat Ad | Swarm Digital

Those cool blokes and lasses from Swarm Digital have asked that I help make their cool meerkat marketing campaign viral and I am happy to oblige--true, there are no ersatz humans in this advert, but the use of CGI anthropomorphized meerkats is pretty close! Take a look!

Cyborgs Walk Amongst Us

In the Depths of the Uncanny Valley! Yikes!

Rebecca Tillett: Photographic Musings on the Ersatz Human

Few other photographer working today combine a post-sontagian/post-virilio savvy with a killer sensual instinct than Rebecca Tillett--here's one of her works from her Model Mayhem self-portrait folio.

Her main site is right here.

The Eight Most Prominent Hyper-realist Sculptors: REPOST

I may well be Nostradamus...

Tex[t]-Mex talks about this anime eye-craze back in the day, back in 2007 when it was sweeping Japan.... Life imitating Art--an old theme! Hit the image for the story.

Dawg Sights Wisdom, from May 2007, The Ten Bells Pub, Spitalfields, London, UK

Every now and then you run across wisdom in London loos--in this case, I ran across a cautionary missive that rings true! As with most images on this blog, click to enlarge.

That's "Dawg," my canine-tag, pointing out the scribbled bon mots.

Cool Kids Encyclopedia Ersatz Humans via Boingboing.net

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Mark Dery IS the Obscene Machine--Catch his Lecture on Anatomy, Exhibitionism, and More in Brooklyn!

Click the Kitty for the skin[ny]!!!

State of the Art: The Ersatz Human

Manorexic Mannequins in New York Magazine | The Skinny on Skinny Ersatz Humans

A Noir Allegory on the Ersatz Human and Robots

Robots Running About LOCO!

Toward an Aesthetics/Erotics of the Ersatz Human

See the art of "Oyster Dreams" here. Selected works appear above.

cool robot gracias to boingboing.net

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Venus de Barbie, and More...

Robots! Melting Faces! Classic Take on Ersatz Humans and More... COMICS STYLE!

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Robots, Now! The Big Picture

New Robotic Erykah Badu Album/Cover via BoingBoing.net

Steampunk Barbie! Cool Robotic/Ersatz Human Mixes! via BoingBoing.net

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"Progress" Voyeur BARBIE-style

More of the Ersatz Human: Pregnancy Edition

ALMA: Animated Meditations on the Uncannyness of the Ersatz Human