“That’s our girl!” The Hillary 2500 prepares to receive her face and wig before meeting the press to answer questions about her upcoming presidential campaign. “The face was the real triumph,” says Brum. "So often, people think ‘female robot’ and what comes to mind is something like Alicia Vikander’s character in Ex Machina: a woman quite literally modeled after a man’s pornographic fantasies. It’s understandable — it’s easy to sexualize something that’s already been dehumanized — and it’s also easy: taut, youthful flesh is not too far from high-grade latex in terms of consistency and look. But Hillary is an experienced politician who has been in the public eye for decades. We’ve done the research: if she didn’t look like she was aging, people wouldn’t trust her — even people who know she’s a robot. Happily, we were able to collaborate with the good people at Advanced Biomatrix to come up with a substance that loses elasticity at roughly the same rate as human skin. The wig, however, we still can’t seem to get right.”

Posted June 11, 2016