Robotic, Erotic, Electric: ARTkive Gallery 30: Huck Finn! The ROBOTIC Edition!

Just got a groovy note from one of your colleagues.... check out the link by hitting the image below:

From: Katrina Vangelas kmisfit AT hotmail DOT com
Subject: Electric ARTkive
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:52:06 -0800
To: William Nericcio

Hey Dr. Nericcio,
I found this and thought you would find it just as interesting as I did, perhaps even more.
http://www.nerdist.com/2011/02/huckleberry-finn-with-extra-robot/

Kindest Regards,

Katrina Vangelas

Robotic, Erotic, Electric: ARTkive 29: THE WHO: WHO ARE YOU, a meditation Robert Louis Stevenson's DR. JECKYLL and MR HYDE

Robotic, Erotic, Electric: ARTkive 28: Brainpickings!

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Robotic, Erotic, Electric: ARTkive Gallery 27: The Future of Books and the Web...

Robotic, Erotic, Electric: ARTkive Gallery 26 | Brian Despain | Soulful Robots!

Click here for more Brian Despain's singularly humane metallic subjectivities:

Robotic, Erotic, Electric: ARTKIVE Gallery 25 | The Huck Finn Robot, via BoingBoing.net

Robotic, Erotic, Electric: ARTKIVE Gallery 24 | Mike Mignola, Setting, Meaning, and Literature

I think I am going to start using this old blog of mine from a previous class as the respository for yours and my Robotic, Erotic, Electric ARTkival contributions to our seminar.

Yesterday, Wednesday, February 9, 2011 in class (the lecture on René Magritte with the screening of Chris Marker's La Jetée), I was talking about how storytellers use setting to underscore theme--indeed, among modernists like James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner, setting as theme, or, even, setting mirroring psychology was a way of life (perhaps the best American author in this vein in Edgar Allen Poe, whose poetry and fiction anticipated what would come to be called high Modernism decades later). In class, I focused on Marker's uncanny settings (remember to look up the meaning of "uncanny" and to include a printout of an "uncanny" personal photograph you own, one that speaks to you of the past in moving/unsettling ways in your roboticJOURNAL), suggesting how the use of RUINS in La Jetée, the use of the NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, with all its corpse/relics, assisted Marker as he told a story of apocalypse and memory.

In any event here's a story from the horse's mouth about setting and narrative in the work of comics author Mike Mignola you may find useful:

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Original source, Cory Doctorow via BoingBoing.net

More Ersatz Human-inspired Art via Boingboing.net

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Miniature "Robots" | Mark Dery on Tiny Ersatz Humans and More!

Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog: WEDNESDAY | 1/26/11 | THE DONKEY SHOW Fiesta! At t...

Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog: WEDNESDAY | 1/26/11 | THE DONKEY SHOW Fiesta! At t...: "If you click the images and links below you will see that I am presenting a lecture tonight, Wednesday, January 26, 2011 @ 7pm, along with..."

Another Collection of the Uncanny Ersatz Human...

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.