Sex-Machine
A Video-Essay
about artificial women
and female machines
Gusztav Hamos
D 1995, 56:00
The work combines documentary material, statements from experts, historic illustrations and types of artificial women, as well as current cyber-developments.
"The seek for perfect love blossoms forth curious ... Who enters once this labyrinth, never comes back. But nevertheless I hope right here to escape from solitude for ever." (The searcher)
"Most of the lovers today are separated, in fact. Because when you live together with somebody for a long time you aren't lovers anymore. So when you think of it it's a very common experience. Today with the technological means, with airplanes, with telephone, with e-mail, cyberspace, more and more people who are actually lovers will be separated for a long period of time but they will still be in touch with each other every minute, every hour or every day by those means. And then, sometimes, they will meet really and I think it will create another type of relationship, a kind of hybrid relationship. (Philippe Queau)
"The electronic network released us from the compulsions of the body and has opened new doors of desire. I didn't want to hide behind other identities, but to get in contact with the machine itself." (Mari Kotani)
"As a matter of fact one can see the constant in history, that it were always men, who created women and women, who were created." (Rudolf Drux)
"An artificial device that satisfies me perfectly would be wonderful for about ten minutes, and then I would probably throw it away, because it wouldn't be changing me enough and I want to change." (Sandy Stone)
"Dr. Frankenstein had created a man. People say, that I'm a women-creating Dr. Frankenstein. That's me by nature." (Shinichi Mizuno)
Are Androids part of our evolution ?
Sure, they are certainly part of our evolution, because they cross us from another evolutionary line and we interbreed. And after they cross we get the collapse of human and machine into each other and we go on as something completely different." (Sandy Stone)
"If you make an artificial lover like a sort of cybernetic girl it would be boring, very unattractive, because you won´t get any reaction, exactly like a computer. That's just a sophisticated way to masturbate and maybe it is not the best one. When you get satisfaction you are supposed to loose your desires. The best situation of course is to entertain your desires." (Jean-Dider Vincent)
"I slept with a lot of people who were very artificial in bed even though technically they were human. ... My vibrator is an artificial lover of sorts. We had some of the greatest sex together ... Lots of people say that On-line Sex is safesex. Well save from what ? Maybe safe from disease but not safe from heartache or you certainly get as emotionally attached on-line as you can in real life, sometimes even more." (Lisa Palac)
"The letter "B" here at the entrance is the "Clitoris" and "A" is the "G-Point". You play by equally and steadily stimulating the erogenous zones." (Ryochi Minami)
"The male robotic sexual partner, the heterosexual partner, is very generalised. It really is, you know, it could be another sheep, it could be a vacuum cleaner, it could be some version of us." (Carolee Schneeman)
"Well, I think your lover should not be a male or a female but really a THIRD MEMBER OF THE THIRD SEX. A kind of, a perfect kind of ambivalent lover ... virtual touch and a virtual feeling and perfectly Hermaphrodite." (Arthur Kroker)
"I don't think that, the distinction, between artificial and real, is going to be in the future ? For instance my hair is bleached. Does that make me artificial. Our bodies become more and more artificial. It's very dangerous to be human, and we of course, because we are in conflict, we are in this constant change and shifting inferno. And if weren't then we would be something else besides human. And this dream of not being human maybe that's what is a little behind some of this cyberspace virtual reality imagination." (Kathy Acker)
"The interesting thing about this new situation would be that one could switch it off. But if you wouldn't switch it off and if you did switch it off you'd be cheating. In other words: As soon as it starts to live, then I think switching off becomes a moral issue. ... From an idealistic point of view any undertaking, any game, which will expand the universe of love, is worth undertaking, is worth doing." (Jeffrey Shaw)
"Our world can't be so artificial, that we can't permeate it with our naturalness and make this other side of the artificial, namely the artistic side, lively again. Therefore always when people come together the artificial way of producing hope will turn into the artistic way to enable hope, love and humanity." (Hinderk Emrich)