Touch Type in Ludic Territories

For the Ludic Territories exhibition, artist collaborators Squires and Dunseath present an iteration of Touch Type, an interactive artwork. As we look at the screen, only the touch of our fingers on the keyboard connects our bodies. Are we emulating a non-human presence which in turn, emulates us? Touch-Type tries to understand the disembodied experience of communication through digital mediation. The keyboard acts as a sensual touch pad, allowing fingers to extend into letters which when touched haunt the adjacent screen. The dissociatiedness in digital communication dwells in the intra-action of the human and non-human, of presence and absence of passivity and action. This interaction creates hiccups, stutters, and confused breakdowns, allowing mis/communications to splinter off.

2024 Ludic Territories with Jenny Dunseath curated by Cagadas Cecen at Das Lot, Vienna, Austria

Touch-Type has been created by Jenny Dunseath and Kate Squires, edited by Chris Churcher with support from Claire Undy/ Skelf, commissioned by SKELF and funded by the Arts Council, England. There are sixteen films attached to the keys: A, S, D, F and J, K, L, ; most films have sound. We envisage it would be shown on a laptop or projected with access to an interactive keypad. Commissioned by SKELF, funded by Arts Council England