Sigmund Freud’s essay on the uncanny described the long-familiar phenomenon of something deeply unsettling that could be ...

When Sigmund Freud wrote his essay “The Uncanny” a century ago, he brought the strange psychological phenomenon into the mainstream. The word is often used to describe the uneasiness one feels ...

Robotics professor Masahiro Mori named this phenomenon the “ uncanny valley ” in 1970: Models that look like human faces but ...

The Triton Museum in Santa Clara, which has showcased local artists for many years, is exhibiting 20 years’ worth of work by ...

When used as subjects in art, they might suggest something deeper ... sculptures and installations that "offer an uncanny perspective on our digitally dominated world.” She often re-imagines ...

In Denis Héroux’s anthology film The Uncanny, starring Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasence, cats perch center stage in four separate tales about their eye-piercing plot to make us their loyal ...