Author and artist, Emma Magenta uses her alter-ego Phillipa Finch to touch on the core of humanity and blend emotion with technology to help us deal with big questions.
In this talk at TEDxCanberra 2011, Emma describes her work and how she uses her alter-egos to explore and understand emotion. She also demonstrates The Waking Heart; a machine built to provide a technical component to her art.
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