Sublime Dreams of Living Machines General Engineering understandably

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The history of innovative intermedia art practices in America

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When Adrianna Winslow emerged from her plane’s tangled wreckage in the middle of the Australian outback

Sublime Dreams of Living Machines General Engineering understandablyFrom the dawn of European civilization to the twentieth century, the automaton better known today as the robot has captured the Western imagination and provided a vital lens into the nature of humanity. Historian Minsoo Kang argues that to properly understand the human as machine and the human as fundamentally different from machine, we must trace the origins of these ideas and examine how they were transformed by intellectual, cultural, and artistic