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'foreigners everywhere' at the venice art biennale 2024 spotlights those who have migrated between the global south and the global north.

The fundamental difference between invisibility and unvisibility is that in the case of the latter, the object is 'hiding' in plain sight. Unlike the former that can't be seen by all and sundry - H G Wells' Invisible Man, microscopic life all around us, an 'all-pervasive higher' entity, Santa Claus, etc - the unvisible momentarily disappears to just one person, the person looking for it.

If the root is madness what could be the cure?

Or just goop???

The Uncanny Valley, Richard Challoner, Joseph Lewis The uncanny valley is a creepy theory about how humans perceive life-like animations, robots and dolls. Its hypothesis is that when artificial models represent humans perfectly or a distance from real people in distinctive ways we can find them to or attractive. However, when these models appear very humanoid and lifelike, but remain vaguely imperfect, we find them eerie and repulsive. This gap in the relationship between resemblance to real people and likeability is the valley and it's pretty unnerving for that reason. The concept suggest...