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Showing 1 to 20 of 162 for “"uncanny"”.
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Uncanny Bodies
<p>In “Uncanny Bodies,” unseemly bits are revealed, sensibilities are questioned, and solid ground morphs into shaky mounds. I delve into how the uncanny challenges traditional views and societal norms about the body. My artwork emphasizes the fluid and often unsettling experiences of physical …
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Uncanny valley
… and post-production stages of the short film UNCANNY VALLEY, a film about a person trying to digitally resurrect his deceased mother. After his mother passes away from cancer, Anish finds a place where he can input data in order to breathe life into expired things. UNCANNY VALLEY touches on …
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The Social Uncanny Valley
The Uncanny Valley effect refers to the observation that robots who are highly human-like elicit negative responses from observers. Based on this observation, we examine human responses to AI-generated objects which are very similar to those made by humans. To date, it is unknown whether such …
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The Uncanny Valley Effect
The Uncanny Valley Effect (UVE) first emerged as a warning against making industrial robots appear so highly human-like that they could unsettle the real humans around them. It proposed a specific pattern of negative emotional responses to entities that were almost but not quite human, and has been …
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The 'Uncanny' and The Android
… she most often makes her appearance in the uncanny text. This appearance is nearly always accompanied by some variation of the vision motif. Despite wide spread interest in both the Uncanny' and the android, to date, there is not a theory which accounts for the uncanny nature of the android …
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The Initiation of the Beautiful Uncanny
… in arts and one of the interests was in the uncanny where it was relating to surrealism. Previous artwork has addressed the Freudian uncanny concept as an unfamiliar, frightened emotion that is negatively disturbing. However, the concept of Nicholas Royal that uncanny can be strangely …
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Exploring Fear and Freud's The Uncanny
… I will use Sigmund Freud's theory of the “uncanny” as a possible device to examine the complexities of fear and its effects both on the mind and body through the medium of literature, and, more specifically, where and how these notions are used within my own short stories. By exploring how …
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Uncanny Reminders: The 'Nazi' in Popular Culture
… in combination with Freud’s concept of the uncanny, this thesis examines the dynamics of the relationship between the ‘Nazi’ and its audience in four examples: television episodes “Deaths-Head Revisited,” “He’s Alive” (The Twilight Zone), and “Patterns of Force” (Star Trek); and Serdar …
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The Uncanny Other: Edgar Allan Poe’s America
The Uncanny Other: Edgar Allan Poe’s America undertakes revisionist readings of Poe’s canonical and lesser-known texts with reference to standard psychoanalytic works on the (mainly Freudian) unheimlich, to re-examine them in transatlantic- and reception-studies frameworks. The thesis argues that …
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Uncanny valleys: sex, power, & the artificial person
<p>This paper explores the impact of the creation of hyper-realistic animatronic sex rolls on the way in which the almost exclusively male customers view women’s autonomy. Through an examination of contemporary robotics theory as well as profiles on prospective clients for such dolls, the author …
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An Uncanny Perspective: Sculptures by Martin Puryear
<p>An Uncanny Perspective: Sculptures by Martin Puryear will demonstrate how Puryear (b.1941) both aesthetically and conceptually evokes narratives found in Sigmund Freud’s (1856-1939) theories of the uncanny, specifically signifiers of darkness, unfamiliarity and secrecy. This employment of the …
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Haunted houses, haunted selves – feminist readings of uncanny domesticity
The aesthetic phenomenon of the uncanny in literature and art is a spatial and gendered aesthetic concept, which is expressed in the spatial characteristics of a literary or photographic narrative. The intention of this thesis is to evaluate the entanglement of the uncanny, space, domesticity and …
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Uncanny Homelands: Disability, Race, and the Politics of Memory
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary and comparative study of German and Italian memory culture after 1945. It examines how the interaction between memorials, litera-ture, historiography, and popular culture shapes a society's memory and identity. I focus on two marginalized aspects of the …
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Projecting the uncanny : the intersection of visuality and architecture
… that can help to describe habitation and the uncanny experience of life in space. Without the constraints of gravity, architecture is no longer forced to have plumb walls, that floors, or ramps with specific ratios. Zero gravity presents itself with its own challenges of disorientation and …
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Towards the Uncanny Object: Creating Interactive Craft with Smart Materials
… utilised to progress towards developing the <i>Uncanny Object</i> that appears to possess biological characteristics and apparent agency, yet is a fully artificial construct. <br/><br/>The potential for the practical application of a design methodology guided by playful engagement with novel …
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The Postapocalyptic American Frontier: Uncanny Historicism in the Nineteenth Century
… of history. Their literature results in an uncanny historicism that unsettles narratives of material progress by conflating ancient territorial rupture with a potentially disastrous future. The Illinois prairie of the 1840s thus appeared to Margaret Fuller as a country that has been …
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An Investigation into the uncanny: character design, behaviour and context.
… been a substantial amount of research into the uncanny valley, defining research that contextualises a character as they would normally be viewed remains an unexplored area. Often previous research focused solely on realistic render styles giving characters an unfair basis that tended towards …
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Noise, artifact and the uncanny in large scale digital photographic practice.
… identify it via readings of Sigmund Freud's "The Uncanny" and McLuhan's "The Gadget Lover", as a function of the uncanny. I will propose an original rewriting of McLuhan's ideas of "hot" and "cool" media, as well as the cycles of irritation/mediation repression within McLuhan's media theory as a …
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Beyond reason: revising the place of literature in theories of the uncanny
… various key components in theories of the uncanny as they relate to literature. The goal of the present study is to reaffirm the roles of uncertainty, ambiguity, and the purposeful lack of closure in the experience of the uncanny, features which will come to form an integral part of a new …
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