Haptic hedonism produces excessive pleasure through the sense of touch in all forms. Ethically it presents a challenge to how the body is excluded in current production of art. For what happens when one transgresses the taboo zone of intimacy? And absorbs the body of the participant into the artwork? Under the dominance of the eye “the non-visual senses have been actively forgotten and written out of the cultural history of the West”.01 My work presented here focuses on the skin to use the artistic possibilities of the haptic senses, that is the senses relating to touch and movement.
01 Mark Paterson, The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects and Technologies, Berg,2007
Stahl Stenslie (NO)
Stahl Stenslie works as an artist, curator and researcher specializing in experimental media art and interactive installations. The technological focus in his works is on the art of the recently possible - such as i) panhaptic communication on Smartphone, ii) somatic and immersive soundspaces, and iii) functional and lethal artguns 3D printed in low-cost plastic material. His aesthetic focus is here on art and artistic expressions that challenge ordinary ways of perceiving the world. Through his practice he asks the questions we tend to avoid or the answers to which lie in the shadows of existence. He has been exhibiting and lecturing at major international events (ISEA, DEAF, Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH). He represented Norway at the 5th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey, co-organized 6cyberconf and won the Grand Prize of the Norwegian Council for Cultural Affairs. He has moderated various symposiums like Ars Electronica (Next Sex), ArcArt and Oslo Lux (2013). His PhD is on touch and technologies (virtualtouch.wordpress.com). Currently he is teaching and researching as a full professor in Art and Technology at Aalborg University, Denmark.
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