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The essay and the concept of the Uncanny\u00a0are familiar to literary theorists and art historians, who have\u00a0charted its the literary and theatrical origins of the concept through\u00a0works by ETA Hoffman, Mary Shelley, Karel Capek, and Isaac Asimov, its\u00a0rich history in psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and philosophy, from\u00a0Jensch to Freud to to Heidegger to Derrida to Cixous to what Martin\u00a0Jay described as the \u201cmaster trope\u201d of the 1990\u2019s.<\/p>\n
In my own art and research, I’m interested in mortality and the boundary between what is alive and what is life-like.\u00a0 I’ll present a\u00a0series of short films and artworks that explores this boundary,\u00a0including the Telegarden (1995-2004), an online installation that let\u00a0participants tend a living garden using an industrial robot via the Internet.\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/goldberg<\/span>. Ken Goldberg<\/span> is an artist and professor UC Berkeley. Ken is a pioneer in internet-based robotic telepresence and Cloud-Based Robotics \/ Automation and has published over 200 peer-reviewed technical papers\u00a0on algorithms for robotics, automation, and social information\u00a0\u00a0 filtering; his inventions have been awarded eight US Patents. He is\u00a0Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Engineering (T-ASE), Co-Founder of the African Robotics Network\u00a0(AFRON), Co-Founder of the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM),\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Co-Founder and CTO of Hybrid Wisdom Labs, Co-Founder of the Moxie\u00a0Institute, and Founding Director of UC Berkeley’s Art, Technology, and\u00a0Culture Lecture Series which has hosted over 150 presentations by\u00a0\u00a0artists and curators. Ken’s artwork has\u2028been exhibited at Ars Please join The Department of Technology, Culture and Society for Ken Goldberg‘s talk, Beyond the Uncanny Valley.\u00a0 Fri 10\/9 from 3-4pm in NYU MAGNET’s Lecture Hall. The essay and the concept of the Uncanny\u00a0are familiar to literary theorists and art historians, who have\u00a0charted its the literary and theatrical origins of the concept through\u00a0works by ETA … <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0======<\/p>\n
\nFor details on\u00a0research and art, please visit:\u00a0http:\/\/goldberg<\/span>.