Elsewhere, another duo by the name of L.A. Raeven, who are twins and have been closely collaborating their entire life, created a distressed robot doll named Annelies (Liesbeth + Angelique).
Adjoining not just the tonality of their names but also a dramatized, counter-normative version of their physical appearance, the barefoot replica with bristled hairs and frostbitten skin coyly sits on the floor and sobs to the hypothetical death of whichever twin dies first.
Encountering this sensorial robot delivers a haunting, lasting impression, an eerie feeling that the more you try to substitute organic emotion with techne (Plato’s term denoting technology, craft, and art), the more you are prone to create a weirder third thing.
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