Introduction: Touching the interface, interfacing touch -- The index and the interface -- Uncanny confusion : early video and the fantasy of presence -- Touching television : Chris Burden's anti-spectacular video and the ethics of observation -- Inhabiting the interface : the mixed reality of satellite telecommunication -- The presence of others : telerobotics and the digitization of touch -- The view from here : remote action and the trauma of (not) being touched -- Epilogue: Fingerprints.
Summary
An examination of telepresence technologies through the lens of contemporary artistic experiments, from early video art through current ""drone vision"" works.
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