James H Tichgelaar
Assistant Director
Arkansas State University Museum
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From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Wosk, Julie
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 10:55 AM
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Robot women exhibit

Dear All,

I am a professor and very new to the museum world. This summer I produced an exhibit titled "Alluring Androids, Robot Women, and Electronic Eves" which was  first hosted by the New York Hall of Science in Queens. The exhibit features large digital images of artificial women that seem alive, as seen in art, photography, films, television, and video games–including an eighteenth-century female automaton, Lara Croft, The Stepford Wives,and today’s Japanese female  robots that look so real they can easily fool the eye.

The images are accompanied by detailed wall texts, and the exhibit is an outgrowth of my book Women and the Machine: Representations From the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press).

My question to you is this: I am trying to find other venues for this exhibit and am wondering if anyone has any suggestions. I am also wondering whether this type of exhibit sounds like it is best for a science museum or whether it  might also be of interest to art galleries and other types of exhibit spaces.

Thanks very much for your help.

Julie Wosk

Professor, Art History, English,  and Studio Painting

State University of New York, Maritime College

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