Uncanny Haptics

Fingers multiply, joints are false, movement is algorithmic. Familiar gestures — massage, stroking, holding — become unreliable. The haptic “uncanny valley” emerges: a visible touch that the body does not recognize. Therapeutic touch turns into an industrial simulacrum, offering the promise of comfort and the rhetoric of efficiency. The politics of touch are rewritten here by statistics; intimacy is produced by systems that learn from data but know nothing of pain.

Documentation - Jonas Balsys

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