These beautiful unsettling and playful photographs show how certain scifi tropesfrom digital servants to sex robotshave been consistently gendered as femaleThe latest photobook from Brooklynbased photographer Hannah Whitaker born 1980 imagines the embodied forms of personified technology which have long been central to scifi narratives digital servants sex robots machinelearning projects.Ursula addresses the consistency with which these figures are gendered as female subservient and sexualized and slyly points to our societys insidious failures to fully see women without imposing such roles and distinctions.Immersed in technofuturistic design tropes Whitakers photographsat once playful maximalist and estrangingare accompanied by texts by David Levine and Dawn Chan.