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Taboo–Transgression–Transcendence in Art & Science
  • ISSN: 1477-965X
  • E-ISSN: 1758-9533

Abstract

Motivated by the issues raised by the merging of women and machines in science fiction, this article explores gender representations in Spike Jonze's 2013 film that discusses the interaction between a male human and a disembodied female whose consciousness is held in an artificial intelligence (AI) operating system. One of the primary questions regarding the representation of the female AI is whether the film encourages a feminist perspective, that promotes female subjectivity in the era of the post-human, or it ends up perpetuating visions of women’s oppression and objectification. Visual representations are important when discussing gender binaries, as they can be related to the image and the physical sexual differences. However, the role of sound is also crucial, as it contributes to different readings. In my analysis, I examine the merging and unmerging of audio and visual in the film. The female voice is the focal point of the analysis.

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The gendered AI in Her (2013): Sound, synchresis and disconnection in filmic representations
Technoetic Arts 18, 257 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1386/tear_00043_1
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Keyword(s): audio-visual; cinema; cyborg; disembodiment; feminism; post-human

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