Lecture 5B Telepresence the art of mediated touch

Meaning

• now we not only have self and other

• We also have eye and target

• We aren’t the only people with remote imaging technology

• The authorities have the technology too and can surveil us

• E.g. Deep Play

Meaning

• drones see warfare as just a game

Artists engages with telepresence to….

Unsettle the dynamics of global surveillance

E.g.

Hito Steyeri How not to be seen

Trevor Paglen Drone Vision

Xu Bing Dragonfly Eyes

• commentary about surveillance culture

• Collect CCTV footage from all over the city

• Amassed a huge collection of anonymous CCTV footage and edited them into a cinematic narrative love story

• Title meaning => we are living in an era of ubiquitous camera surveillance

Moniker Do Not touch

• mouse cursor interact with green images whatever you do will be recorded and be apart of music video

• Mouse cursor chasing dot and answering questions about themselves

• E.g. Gender, Place of origin

• Stay in green areas

Mobile Feelings (think weird egg object)

• takes your pulse and temperature

• You can blow into device

• Your interaction comes out of another device

Rafael Lozano Hemmer Remote Pulse

• put your hand on pedestal that detects your pulse

• On the other pedestrian at a remote location the people can feel your pulse

• Placed on either side of Mexian US border so people on both sides can feel each other’s pulse

Lazuli Noholy Nagy Telephone Picture

• he telephoned a sign making company

• Tells them which parts the craft person is supposed to paint

• Authorship of work doesn’t need to be physical

A possible response to contest the fantasy of disembodiedment - Hayles

• the interface is not a window or a door or mirror

• Rather a site of uncanny confusion, it is a surface where opposites touch and become indistinguishable from one another

• The interface is an index

• Ephemeral present-tense sign (occurs in the present)

• Often indirectly observed information, which is inherently doubtful and dubious

• Entails seeing it as a site of real consequence, despite its virtual underpinnings