Mattress Girl Creates a Robot That Talks About Rape
Mattress Girl is back in the news for another bizarre reason.
The Daily Caller reports.
‘Mattress Girl’ Is Back, This Time With A Robot That Talks About Rape
Former Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz, better known as “Mattress Girl,” has reemerged after a few months out of the spotlight. This time, she’s brought a robot with her.
Sulkowicz first grabbed national headlines in the fall of 2014, when she began carrying a mattress around campus as part of a senior art thesis. The mattress, she said, symbolized the “weight” she bore after allegedly being raped and having to see her alleged rapist go unpunished. Sulkowicz carried her mattress throughout the school year, was invited to the State of the Union address by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
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, and even defied school officials by hauling her mattress on-stage at graduation.A few weeks after graduation, Sulkowicz attracted heavy criticism when she released a pornographic video reenacting her alleged rape as a work of visual art. Since then, she has been out of the public eye. Meanwhile, her alleged rapist Paul Nungesser has been pursuing a lawsuit against Columbia University, claiming the school allowed him to suffer gender-based harassment.
But now, Sulkowicz is back as the centerpiece of a visual art exhibit at the Coagula Curatorial in Los Angeles. Titled “Self-Portrait,” the exhibit mostly features Sulkowicz herself standing on a pedestal and fielding questions from any visitors who stand on a pedestal opposite her. The exhibit also features a robot, specifically “Emmatron,” a “life-size ultra-realistic replica of Sulkowicz” that uses an iPad app to answer any questions Sulkowicz believes “objectify or fetishize” her. The questions that are sent to Emmatron mostly concern Sulkowicz’s mattress and the various questions emanating from it, according to Los Angeles Times art critic Sharon Mizota.
'Mattress Girl’ Is Back, This Time With A Robot That Talks About Rape (The Daily Caller)
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“life-size ultra-realistic replica of Sulkowicz”
Does it send you text messages begging you to &*@# it in the a$$, and then accuse you of rape afterwards?
That girl needs professional help.