Life to the second power

San Francisco - lunch at Anjou, on Campton Place.

Life Squared is building an encounter with a past in SecondLife.com - a world of avatars.

Lynn and I were talking about the ambiguity, of course, of clones, models of oneself ... and my current obsession with dolls

Doug Bailey and I spent a lot of energy on this back when he was writing his book about prehistoric figurines - this theme goes way back when. [Link]

Today it was surrealist Han Bellmer ...

And have a look at this site in deviantART.com - [Link]

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For the archaeologists out there - Barbies in ancient Crete - [Link]

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Henrik has been working on some design concepts - through a new game he is making. [Link]

The characters he has created are wonderfully creepy baby dolls -

Lynn's telerobotic Dollie clones - Tillie and CybeRoberta - are connected to the web and let you look through their eyes - camera eye-cons - cyborg prosthetics, but in the distributed space of the internet.

Telerobotic presences

CybeRoberta and Tillie

I am fascinated by the double nature of the doll - familiar and cosy replica, but also and often verging on an uncanny creepiness - this is the word that seems to fit for me.

More of Henrik's monsters ...

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