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Christopher Conte is a licensed prostheticist, and an amateur roboticist. A year and a half ago, he was inked by renowned tattoo artist, Anil Gupta. Taken by Conte's work, Gupta made a phone call to a friend, art agent Les Barany (perhaps most known for representing H.R. Giger). Within a year, Conte was exhibiting at The Last Rites gallery in New York, and had a budding international cult following. Unlike many contemporary artists who scramble to get their work into galleries at an early stage in their development, Conte worked in obscurity, developing his style and refining his craft for 16 years, before Gupta's phone call altered the trajectory of his life. These days he works as a full-time practicing artist and lectures internationally. I was fortunate to interview him over dinner at Yaffa Café in New York's East Village where he shared some of his current work and the thinking behind his creations. When discussing his art, Christopher speaks with a contagious enthusiasm. He brought some of his sculptures to the interview, first producing a piece from his Cynthetic Series of microbotic busts. by Chris Grayson will cost you an arm or a leg