Description: frankie is a documentary robot that interviews people about their emotions, attempting to 'learn' what it means to be human. Frankie is a project by Maayan Sheleff, Eran Hadas and Gal Eshel
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As a form of “automatic” documentation that allegedly excludes the artist authorship, frankie questions notions of representation and participation. A deliberately well-exposed surveillance camera, it examines issues such as agency, control, and privacy, questioning how they effect us in a world in which every second is documented and mediated. It reflects upon the manner in which we choose to perform and present ourselves in the digital age, and how this ultra narcissistic world effects our perception of t
Frankie’s name is a reference to frankness – honesty, directness – and also to Frankenstein – the well known myth on the hubris of creation. It is in fact a physical version of a chat bot, hinting to The Turing Test, and the questions it entails about telling the difference between a human and a machine. frankie also references Eliza, the first 70s Chat Bot that was designed to resemble a psychoanalyst, and questions the “Eliza effect” – a phenomenon which causes people to treat an artificial being like a h