The Infallible and the Specter – Manifesting (artificial) subjectification in female sex robots

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The text outlines a recent artistic practice and theoretical research into a female AI sex doll object, its materiality, and signification. It is a culmination of a three-year study and intervention into the coded systems of control and sites of resistance that play out within the context of an artificial female body.  Machine Learning (ML) algorithm is the mediator between sex robots, their users and cloud data storage, facilitating learning from their inter-actions. I examine this engagement and materiality of the sex robot through notions of feminist mimesis, substitute and simulation against emancipatory politics in object formation. I connect these ideas with theories of new materialism and recent scholarship on digital data science.

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Gosia Wojas, University of California

Gosia Wojas is an artist and researcher. She holds an MFA in Art from University of California, Irvine with a Critical Theory emphasis from UCI’s School of Humanities, and a BFA in Fine Art from California Institute of the Arts. Her research is located at the intersection of philosophy, psychoanalysis, sexuality and Artificial Intelligence and engages with subject - object relation as well as materials and gestures often regarded as peripheral. Her work concerns moments of intimacy through experimentation with strategies of proximity, mimesis and performativity within installations. Wojas’ writing has been included in journals publishing at the crossover of art and theory, most recently Material-i-ty, and Flat Journal. Between the years of 2011-2021 she organized talks, screenings, exhibitions, and workshops independently, and as The Absent Museum and Projekt Papier, at venues in Los Angeles, Berlin and Gdańsk.

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2023-07-31

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Vol. 8 (2023): Eighth issue

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