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2007

Touchscreen (1998) -- Anna Anders (DE) & Klaus Gasteier (DE) -- DAT – Digital Art & Technology -- An Ars Electronica Exhibition at the Singapore Science Centre

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Description
The interactive installation Touchscreen addresses contact and the desire to touch, and plays with the expectations of the viewers.
The visitors are asked to touch the screen integrated into the wall. Each area of the monitor has been assigned different video and/or audio sequences. Yet even after playing for a while, the user still cannot determine a fixed course. He finds himself in a constantly changing emotional roller-coaster. Sometimes he becomes an object of desire, and is asked to touch the screen. This spot is then kissed whimsically by a young beauty, or the user is bombarded with insults about being aggressive grabber and gets sent away.
Aside from the video sequences there are purely audio parts. One navigates through sounds such as hissing, ringing glass, chortles, a clearing of the throat, crackling, pings and pongs. Or a virtual finger will follow the user’s real finger as it runs over the screen.
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2007
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