Take a trip to uncanny valley with sci-fi artist Esmay Wagemans:
feature prominently. She also spends a sizeable chunk of her day reading scientific journals and nerdy gadget blogs. “New technologies actually give me goosebumps, no joke. I’d say there are, on average, about 35 tabs about technology and science open in my browser at any given time – and that’s pretty much what it looks like inside my head as well.”, written by Dutch professor Anneke Smelik, is a favourite title of hers -- so much so that it’s almost required reading in her studio.
It is, to say the least, an interesting time for anyone researching the boundaries between the human body and technology -- a time in which the line between real and fake is increasingly fading. On the one hand, augmented reality is looking more and more human -- google 'deep fakes' and you’ll get the gist. On the other, people are trying to look more like AR apparitions, undergoing cosmetic surgery to resemble their Facetuned-selfies and distorted Instagram story filters.
That’s not, however, to say that the future fascinates Esmay more than the present. According to her and certain, sci-fi predictions actually tell us more about current times, than what is to come. “In sci-fi art we can read a lot about our current state of mind -- what we as a society are afraid of, what we are longing for.” It is this collective striving to develop ad infinitum, while simultaneously being scared of what that development may bring, that intrigues Esmay.
For Esmay, questions about our existence never get boring, simply because they can never be answered. “I actually consider all the different projects I create as one big body of research into the same topic. It’s an investigation without a conclusion,” she says. “But hopefully it’s one that asks all the right questions, and makes you ask some yourself.”
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