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Pathetic Fallacy
​2014, HD video, stereo, 4:12 loop
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Pathetic Fallacy is an intergenerational dialogue about growing old.

​Youth doesn't believe it will age. Age believes it knows best. Humans believe in the pathos of humanity. And the cycle continues.

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Behind the scenes: Actroid-F operated by Kirsten Packham
Screenings/Exhibitions
SHErobots, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney 2022
Spectra: Multiplicities, ANAT, Melbourne 2022

Bangkok Art Biennale, Thailand 2020-21
Future and the Arts, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 2019-20

BioFiction Film Festival, Vienna 2019
​Women in Media Technology, Athens 2019

Tribute to the 15 Years of Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens 2019
Synthetic Mediart, Taipei Expo Park, Taiwan 2019

Festival Nuovo Cinema Europa, Genova 2018
The Female is Future, Gallery Hashimoto, Tokyo 2018
Ex Machina and featured short artist films, New York University, Shanghai 2018
Athens Digital Arts Festival 2017
Athens Digital Arts Festival tour of Attica and Argosaronic Islands 2017 
Cairo Video Festival 2017
Highlights of the Cairo Video Festival, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Cairo 2017
Blue Magpie Experimental Film Series, Taiwan 2017
Pisa Robot Film Festival, Italy 2017 
Juried exhibition, International Symposium on Electronic Art, Run Run Shaw Centre for Creative Media, Hong Kong 2016
Beyond Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, UNSW Galleries, Sydney 2015

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Credits
Light and camera: Campbell Drummond
Assist: Lindsay Webb, Maylei Hunt
Ursula: Maggie Blinco 
Actroid operator: Kirsten Packham 

Robot: Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories
Permissions: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Japan, + Creative Robotics Lab, National Institute for Experimental Arts, UNSW Art & Design, Australia

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