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PROSTHETIC HEAD: Ideas and Anecdotes on the Seductiveness of Embodied Conversational Agents

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You may know that the Gallery here is closed on Mondays. This last Monday we had a little boy come to the door with his mother, crying because we weren’t open, because he has been coming daily to talk to you (The Prosthetic Head)!!

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  • Nietzsche, Friedrich. (1989). On The Genealogy of Morals; Ecce Homo. Trans. Walter Kaufmann. New York: Vintage Books.

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  1. Brunel University, West London, UK

    Stelarc (Chair in Performance Art)

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  1. Brunel University, West London, UK

    Susan Broadhurst (Professor of Performance and Technology in the School of Arts) & Josephine Machon (Lecturer in Drama) (Professor of Performance and Technology in the School of Arts) &  (Lecturer in Drama)

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Stelarc (2009). PROSTHETIC HEAD: Ideas and Anecdotes on the Seductiveness of Embodied Conversational Agents. In: Broadhurst, S., Machon, J. (eds) Sensualities/Textualities and Technologies. Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230248533_6

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