"Juana y Josefa" is an exploration of AI systems, not just as tools to design the future but to think about the past. Most women who lived in Spain during the post-war and dictatorship period were not allowed to go beyond what society expected from them, despite the fact that some of them were ahead of their time.
I used AI Dalle to imagine two friends, Juana and Josefa, being creative, different and unconventional in rural Spain during the 40s and 50s.
The Uncanny Valley is a term used to describe the relationship between the human-like appearance of a robotic object and the emotional response it evokes.
In this phenomenon, people feel a sense of unease or even revulsion in response to humanoid robots that are highly realistic.
