Physicalizing Touch Behavior

Physicalizing Touch Behavior

Physicalizing Touch Behavior

A series experiments to visualize how people touch objects as they examine and try to gain information from them. We explore how people “think” with their hands, how they memorize objects and space, and the touch traces that provide clues to these forms of haptic cognition.

with Laura Perovich and Bernice Rogowitz.

Rogowitz, Bernice, Laura J. Perovich, Yuke Li, Bjorn Kierulf, and Dietmar Offenhuber. “Touching Art — A Method for Visualizing Tactile Experience.” Alt-VIS, 2021. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2110.00686.  

Perovich, Laura, Bernice Rogowitz, Victoria Crabb, Jack Vogelsang, Sara Hartleben, and Dietmar Offenhuber. “The Tactile Dimension: A Method for Physicalizing Touch Behaviors.” Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023. (Honorable Mention CHI 2023)

 

New Elements Exhibition

New Elements Exhibition

New Elements Exhibition

with Laboratoria Arts & Science Foundation
New Tretyakov Gallery Moscow
Curated by Daria Parkhomenko & Dietmar Offenhuber
In partnership with Kaspersky

The exhibition NEW ELEMENTS explores an unusual perspective on data and computation, centering on the physicality of information and its implications for how we make sense of the world. 12 works by artists from different countries show how to close the gap between data and the world.

Artists: Memo Akten (Turkey – UK), Ralf Baecker (Germany), Erich Berger (Finland), Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov (Russia), Thomas Feuerstein (Austria), Forensic Architecture (UK), Ryoichi Kurokawa (Japan), Tuula Narhinen (Finland), Anna Ridler (UK), Tomas Saraceno (Argentina), Theresa Schubert (Germany), Aki Inomata (Japan)

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