Monday, March 9, 2009
Pencil Sculptures
Jennifer Maestre is an artist from South Africa who makes sculptures out of everyday objects like pencils and nails. Spiky sculptures! Inspired by sea urchins!
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My Uncanny Valley
- mc
- The "uncanny valley" is a hypothesis that as a robot is made more humanlike, the emotional response from a human being to the robot will become increasingly positive and empathic, until a point is reached beyond which the response quickly becomes that of strong repulsion. The phenomenon can be explained by the notion that, if an entity is sufficiently non-humanlike, then the humanlike characteristics will tend to stand out and be noticed easily, generating empathy. On the other hand, if the entity is "almost human", then the non-human characteristics will be the ones that stand out, leading to a feeling of "strangeness" in the human viewer.