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Each minute tons of goods pass freely, quickly, and quietly across international borders. The new Blackberry Storm, released last Friday and equipped with beautiful haptic touch-screens, will certainly reach far-flung outposts in Oceania, the Andes, and the Sahara by the time you read this column. Many of the gadgets will probably rest in the palms of business executives sitting in pleather first-class seats, on missions to freely, quickly, and quietly move capital across international borders. And far below them while they fly, floating on rafts and side-winding in the desert high noon, will be migrants, refugees...
...part installation called “Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art,” running from Oct. 12 to Dec. 31 at MIT. According to the exhibition’s brochure, the artists featured seek to evaluate whether “technological advances in digital smell, haptic technologies, and embodied computing” will be able to replace “vision’s long held-dominance over the other senses.” Tolaas’s exhibition explores how the body uses varying physiological states to communicate different moods—focusing on body odor...
...make something that looks perfectly realistic a quarter- mile away when you are close up against it and cannot see it as a whole. The huge fragmentary paintings of the '60s and '70s are imposing but not tactile; very big but oddly weightless, with none of the haptic intensity that is the gift of denser painting. They look hard to understand because they are easy to read. As Art Historian Judith Goldman points out in her recent book on Rosenquist, most of his images are not just culled, collage-wise, from advertising; they are shards of personal experience, of memories...
...professor made this discovery while studying the drawings and sculptures of blind children. Most of them, he noticed, exaggerated the size of the hands (see cut) and emphasized straining muscles. But Lowenfeld found that this haptic* quality was not confined to blind people, and that not all blind people had it. He concluded that hapticals and visuals are born, not made...
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