Resumen

CONTE, Pietro. Towards a phenomenology of hyperrealistic dolls. Valenciana [online]. 2019, vol.12, n.23, pp.293-314. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i23.424.

Hyperrealistic artefacts are increasingly and rapidly spreading: “Real Dolls” are used as life- or sex partners; “Reborn Dolls” uncannily replicate the physical features of real infants; in the short term, androids are likely to play a crucial role in virtually all domains of society; and the rapid pace of technological development already suggests that there will be an exponential growth in the application of artificial intelligence to human replicas. By adopting a phenomenological perspective, this essay wants to provide a theoretical explanation of hyperrealism and its crossing the line between “perception” and “image consciousness”, between “deception” and “aesthetic illusion”, and between art and non-art.

Palabras llave : Phenomenological Aesthetics; Hyperrealism; Illusion; Image consciousness; Frame.