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“The Second Self” takes its title from Sherry Turkle’s 1984 book which looks at the role of computers in our social and psychological lives. Computer technology has served as a great catalyst for society, impacting our awareness of ourselves, of each other and our relationship to the world. We endeavour to humanise technology, to create it in our own image, and a fresh aspect of this challenge is to create room for human error and emotion within technology. The works by the artists in this exhibition explore the notion of replicating individuality, with all of its flaws, in technology and …