Veils of Transference
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2005 The Veils of Transference depicts a psychoanalytic session between a robot and human which explores a human’s desire to be robotic, and a robot’s programmed desire to be human. Roles of analyst and analysand are in flux; the therapist and patient engage in mind-games based on a switching of, and uncertainty about, their roles. Staged in a green-screen environment which exhibits the dreams and unconscious narratives occupying the human’s mind and the robot’s database. Together they ponder the difference between human “memory” and computer “database.”