Elise Bikker

It seems we have entered an age where what once was science fiction is becoming reality. One of the more interesting (and disturbing) stories I read during my PhD-research into thinking and speaking machines in fiction is “Tomorrow’s Eve” (original French: “l’Ève future”) by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam from 1886. In a nutshell, in the novel a desperate man asks an inventor, a fictional Thomas Edison, to build an improved mechanical version of his fiancée whose body he has

“Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.” Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869) [1]  ...

Our emotions feel uniquely ours. But they're not. Situations and circumstances are unique, emotions are not. For an artist – and it...

This drawing is an illustration to a story I’m writing, in which the domed nymphaeum forms part of a fictional building that makes up...

After moving house to the Yorkshire countryside, a little over a year ago, I found myself temporarily without a studio, which is why the...