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Still of documentary titled ‘Alice Cares’. In a living room of mustard yellow colour, a humanoid robot of about two feet tall sits on the sofa. The robot has a head of a little girl and a body an armour in white and orange colour, with a loud speaker at the chest.

Technologies of Care and Alice Cares

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Programme: Techno Sapiens
Director: Elisa Giardina Papa, Sander Burger
Format: Multiple / 78 min.
Language: Multiple (with Chinese and/or English subtitles)
Audience: Everyone
Location: House 2
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Still of documentary titled ‘Alice Cares’. In a living room of mustard yellow colour, a humanoid robot of about two feet tall sits on the sofa. The robot has a head of a little girl and a body an armour in white and orange colour, with a loud speaker at the chest.

Technologies of Care and Alice Cares

Today, as our lives become increasingly dependent on the conveniences afforded by technology, even our relationships and emotional bonds are being mediated by machines. In Technologies of Care (2016), artist Elisa Giardina Papa interviews seven freelancers, including a social media fan-for-hire, a nail wrap designer, and a fetish video performer, who offer online, on-demand emotional support through digital platforms. Through 3D renderings and voiceover narratives, the video brings forward a new perspective on the human lives behind digital labour. Alice Cares (2015) follows a carebot named Alice, developed by a research team in Amsterdam, who is piloted in the homes of three elderly single women. As the team refines the software, Alice is not only able to recognise and respond to human emotions, but she also begins to change the lives of her companions. Two separate plotlines unravel the potential and risk when love and care is transformed into a service or commodity through technology.

Still of video titled ‘Technologies of Care’. At the background is a bubble wrap, behind which appears to be a cloth with floral pattern. On the bubble wrap are two computer-drawn human figures covered with grey marble fragments. They are a man and a woman sitting together, touching each other and looking at different directions.

Elisa Giardina Papa. Technologies of Care, 20016. Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Still of documentary titled ‘Alice Cares’. At a dining table, a humanoid robot with a head of a little girls sits on a chair, looking at the elderly woman next to it. The woman is bending over and looking at the robot with a smile.

Sander Burger. Alice Cares, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of Doxy Films

Still of documentary titled ‘Alice Cares’. Close-up shot of a humanoid robot. Its head has a head of a little girl, with long black hair, a smiling face and a pair of pinhole-camera irises. Its body is an armour in white and orange colour, with exposed joints and a loud speaker at the chest.

Sander Burger. Alice Cares, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of Doxy Films

Still of video titled ‘Technologies of Care’. At the background is a bubble wrap, behind which appears to be a cloth with floral pattern. On the bubble wrap are two computer-drawn human figures covered with grey marble fragments. They are a man and a woman sitting together, touching each other and looking at different directions.

Elisa Giardina Papa. Technologies of Care, 20016. Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Still of documentary titled ‘Alice Cares’. At a dining table, a humanoid robot with a head of a little girls sits on a chair, looking at the elderly woman next to it. The woman is bending over and looking at the robot with a smile.

Sander Burger. Alice Cares, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of Doxy Films

Still of documentary titled ‘Alice Cares’. Close-up shot of a humanoid robot. Its head has a head of a little girl, with long black hair, a smiling face and a pair of pinhole-camera irises. Its body is an armour in white and orange colour, with exposed joints and a loud speaker at the chest.

Sander Burger. Alice Cares, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of Doxy Films

Still of video titled ‘Technologies of Care’. At the background is a bubble wrap, behind which appears to be a cloth with floral pattern. On the bubble wrap are two computer-drawn human figures covered with grey marble fragments. They are a man and a woman sitting together, touching each other and looking at different directions.

Elisa Giardina Papa. Technologies of Care, 20016. Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Still of documentary titled ‘Alice Cares’. At a dining table, a humanoid robot with a head of a little girls sits on a chair, looking at the elderly woman next to it. The woman is bending over and looking at the robot with a smile.

Sander Burger. Alice Cares, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of Doxy Films

Still of documentary titled ‘Alice Cares’. Close-up shot of a humanoid robot. Its head has a head of a little girl, with long black hair, a smiling face and a pair of pinhole-camera irises. Its body is an armour in white and orange colour, with exposed joints and a loud speaker at the chest.

Sander Burger. Alice Cares, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of Doxy Films

Still of video titled ‘Technologies of Care’. At the background is a bubble wrap, behind which appears to be a cloth with floral pattern. On the bubble wrap are two computer-drawn human figures covered with grey marble fragments. They are a man and a woman sitting together, touching each other and looking at different directions.

Elisa Giardina Papa. Technologies of Care, 20016. Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Still of documentary titled ‘Alice Cares’. At a dining table, a humanoid robot with a head of a little girls sits on a chair, looking at the elderly woman next to it. The woman is bending over and looking at the robot with a smile.

Sander Burger. Alice Cares, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of Doxy Films

Still of documentary titled ‘Alice Cares’. Close-up shot of a humanoid robot. Its head has a head of a little girl, with long black hair, a smiling face and a pair of pinhole-camera irises. Its body is an armour in white and orange colour, with exposed joints and a loud speaker at the chest.

Sander Burger. Alice Cares, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of Doxy Films

About the Directors

Elisa Giardina Papa lives and works in New York and Sant'Ignazio, Sicily. Her works focus on gender, sexuality, labour, human relationships, wellbeing, and emotions in the digital era. The artist produced Labor of Sleep (2017) and Cleaning Emotional Data (2020) which formed a trilogy with Technologies with Care to explore how digital economies and technology affect the way we work and live. Her video installation U Scantu: A Disorderly Tale was exhibited at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, in 2022.

Sander Burger (b. 1975) is a Dutch director. Alice Cares is Burger's first feature documentary. He has directed a number of drama films such as Panman: Rhythm of the Palms (2007), Hunting & Sons (2010), and The Judgement (2021).

Image at top: Sander Burger. Alice Cares, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of Doxy Films

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