Bodymaps: artifacts of Touch is a computer interactive sound and video installation. The piece uses a specially designed sensor surface that is embedded beneath white velvet. Images are projected on the surface from above. Touch and proximity sensors detect a participant’s presence and contact with the surface. The piece is silent until caressed. It responds to proximity and caress with movement and sound. The effect is sensual, disturbing, highly charged and openly affective. The intent of the work is to create a relationship between participant and technology that invokes a space of experience, reflection and vulnerability, a delicate balance that attempts to incite an awareness of one's relationship with oneself through the act of touch.

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