By Minju Song - MA Graphic Communication Design, Central Saint Martins for Walls in Online Places
More communication than ever relies on digital devices today;
however, is the way we interact through them enough to show our feeling?
Or fulfill our desire for human warmth?
Do we get enough Touch from our daily interaction?
A grid sensor designed with only soft materials and integrated into a piece of clothing.
By wearing it, I become a humanoid interpreting ‘touch language of hugs' to hugdrawings.
Through intimate interaction with this humanoid body embodying a vulnerable and sophisticated sense of touch, we explore how the experience of touch varies between human and machine, and also among humans.
[…] Touch is a sense of communication. It is receptive, expressive can communicate empathy.
It can bring distant objects and people into proximity. […]
From ‘The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects and Technologies’ (2007) by Mark Paterson
Walls in Online Places is an online exhibition programme for UAL postgrads to share their work whilst in isolation and practicing social distancing.
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