Speculative Touch Interface (Finger)

The Speculative Touch Interface invites us to reconsider the boundaries of our bodies and the technologies we create. It challenges us to imagine new forms of intimacy and connection in an increasingly digitized world.

As reality becomes profoundly mediated by techno-interfaces, intensifying alienation from human touch, this speculative anatomies ask what is lost and gained when screens and interfaces intercede in the majority of our interactions and relationships, intensifying alienation from our bodies and human touch.

Touch is the central act, exploring the eroticism and ambivalence of interface: the pleasure of caressing a screen, and the anxiety of bodies colonized and surveilled. As the touched object can touch back, unsettling the boundaries of self, these forms suggest a fusion of flesh and machine. The aesthetic features fleshy biomorphic contours and clinical palettes of pastels.

This is sculpture as anarchitecture, striving for “oozing, challenging bodies full of seams” and “wild, amorous, monstrous bodies” (Legacy Russell). This is not nostalgia for the organic. This is a remix, rupture. This is the body, again, becoming.

Speculative Touch Interface Series:

• Speculative Touch Interface (Bone)
• Speculative Touch Interface (Hair)
• Speculative Touch Interface (CCTV)