DEEP CONTACT BY LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON - ADA

Keywords

aesthetics
- acoustic
- affective
- anamorphic
- animated
- anthropomorph
- assembled
- automated
- autopoietic
- collaborative
- contextual
- cybernetic
- disgusting
- distorted
- documenting
- duplicated
- dynamic system
- ephemeral
- experimental
- found object
- generative
- gustatory
- hypermediacy
- illusionary
- immaterial
- immersive
- installation-based
- interactive
- intermedial
- intervention
- mobile
- modular
- multi-user
- multiple
- narrative
- navigable
- networked
- olfactory
- panoramatic
- performative
- polysensory
- processual
- projected
- psychedelic
- real-time
- realistic
- remediated
- remixed
- sculptural
- site-specific
- sonification
- sublime
- tactile
- telematic
- three-dimensional
- time-based
- uncanny
- virtual
- visual
genre
- Bio Art
  - Genetic Art
  - Transgenic Art
- Concept Art
- Database Art
- Digital Activism
- Digital Animation
- Digital Community (Social Network)
- Digital Graphics
- Game Art
- Glitch Art
- Hybrid Art
- Installation
  - augmented reality
  - interactive installation
  - mixed reality
  - performative installation
  - sound installation
  - virtual reality
    - 360° virtual walktrough
- light art
- Nano Art
- Net Art
- Performance
  - Computer performance
  - Happening
  - multimedia performance
  - sound performance
  - video performance
- robotics
- Telematic Art
subject
- ART AND SCIENCE
  - algorithm
  - anthropology
  - archaeology
  - artificial intelligence
  - astronomy
  - biology
  - botany
  - cartography
  - code
  - combinatorics
  - cyberspace
  - database
  - documentation
  - emergence
  - evidence
  - experiment
  - geography
  - geometry
  - history of science
  - humanities
  - library
  - light
  - machine
  - mathematic
  - medicine
  - microscopy
  - nanotechnology
  - neuroscience
  - philosophy
    - metaphysics
  - physics
  - psychology
  - Representation of knowledge
  - research
  - science
  - scientific image
  - space
  - statistics
  - stereoscope
- ARTS AND VISUAL CULTURE
  - allegory
  - anamorphosis
  - animation
  - architecture
  - art history
  - art market
  - artistic invention
  - beauty
  - cinema
  - collage
  - comics
  - conservation
  - dance
  - drawing
  - expanded cinema
  - fashion
  - gaze
  - grid
  - illusion
  - image
  - literature
  - mask
  - materiality
  - mirror
  - model
  - museum
  - music
  - nude
  - ornament
  - painting
  - panopticon
  - panorama
  - personification
  - perspective
  - photography
  - poetry
  - portrait
  - projection
  - representation
  - sculpture
  - shadow
  - sketch
  - spectator
  - still life
  - symbolism
  - theatre
  - theory
    - complexity
    - media theory
    - modernism
    - postmodernism
    - poststructuralism
    - semiotics
    - simulacrum
  - virtuality
  - visual culture
- BODY AND PSYCHOLOGY
  - affect
  - agency
  - alienation
  - amnesia
  - anatomy
  - anger
  - anxiety
  - body
  - breathing
  - cognition
  - curiosity
  - cybersex
  - cyborg
  - death
  - depression
  - disease
  - disgust
  - dream
  - ecstasy
  - embodiment
  - emotion
  - empathy
  - erotic
  - experience
  - expression
  - eye
  - facial expression
  - fantasy
  - fear
  - feeling
  - gender
  - genetics
  - gesture
  - hand
  - happiness
  - human
  - identity
  - imagination
  - intimacy
  - isolation
  - joy
  - loneliness
  - love
  - mental disorder
  - movement
  - narcissism
  - optimism
  - pain
  - paranoia
  - perception
  - performativity
  - pessimism
  - physiognomy
  - pleasure
  - posthuman
  - psyche
  - psychoanalysis
  - psychosis
  - sadness
  - self awareness
  - senses
    - hearing
    - sight
    - smell
    - taste
    - touch
  - sexuality
  - shame
  - shock
  - skin
  - speech
  - stress
  - surgery
  - trust
  - unconsciousness
- HISTORY AND MEMORY
  - ancestor
  - antiquity
  - archive
  - artifacts
  - collective memory
  - colonialism
  - cultural heritage
  - historical site
  - historism
  - history
  - meme
  - memorial
  - modern era
  - nostalgia
  - postcolonialism
  - preservation
  - romanticism
  - teleology
  - tradition
- MAGIC AND PHANTASTIC
  - alchemy
  - animism
  - enchantment
  - ghost
  - horoscope
  - illusion
  - magic
  - occultism
  - sorcery
  - supernaturalism
  - superstition
  - telepathy
- MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION
  - access
  - advertising
  - Big Data
  - broadcast
  - commerce
  - communication
  - electronic media
  - error message
  - fiction
  - film
  - global village
  - hypertext
  - information
  - intermediality
  - internet
  - language
  - media archaeology
  - open source
  - print media
  - radio
  - search engine
  - social media
  - storytelling
  - telecommunication
  - telephone
  - television
  - video surveillance
  - visualisation
  - writing
- NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT
  - agriculture
  - animal
  - anthropocentrism
  - atmosphere
  - catastrophe
  - DNA
  - earth
  - ecosystem/ecology
  - energy
  - environment
  - evolution
  - four elements
  - geology
  - global warming
  - globe
  - landscape
  - magnetism
  - nature
  - ocean
  - outer space
  - physical law
  - plant
  - pollution
  - sustainability
  - topography
  - vegetation
  - water
  - weather
- POWER AND POLITICS
  - authority
  - banking
  - censorship
  - conspiracy
  - democracy
  - discrimination
  - economy
  - equality
  - geopolitics
  - governance
  - heroism
  - human rights
  - imperialism
  - institution
  - law
  - manipulation
  - market
  - military
  - nationalism
  - patriarchy
  - politics
  - sovereignty
  - surveillance
  - terrorism
  - violence
  - warfare
- RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY
  - afterlife
  - bible
  - church
  - creation
  - crucifixion
  - esoterism
  - exodus
  - heretic
  - legend
  - mysticism
  - myth
  - mythological creature
  - mythology
  - paradise
  - religion
    - buddhism
    - christianity
    - islam
    - judaism
  - ritual
  - sacrifice
  - Saint
  - sin
  - spirituality
  - vision
  - worship
- SOCIETY AND CULTURE
  - activism
  - border
  - capitalism
    - surveillance-capitalism
  - city
  - civilisation
  - community
  - consumption
  - counterculture
  - country
  - digital identity
  - diversity
  - entertainment
    - comedy
    - festival
    - game
    - mass culture
    - parody
    - phantasmagoria
    - popular culture
    - spectacle
    - toys
  - ethnicity
  - feminism
  - folklore
  - food
  - globalization
  - individuality
  - information society
  - interculturalism
  - mass
  - migration
  - minority
  - morality
  - native
  - otherness
  - participation
  - poverty
  - privacy
  - public space
  - racism
  - territory
  - unemployment
  - urban space
  - utopia
  - voyeurism
  - wealth
  - working class
- TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
  - ambient intelligence
  - artificial intelligence
  - artificial life
  - biocomputer
  - blockchain
  - cybernetics
  - development
  - digitization
  - electricity
  - emulation
  - engineering
  - history of technology
  - innovation
  - intelligent environment
  - invention
  - mechanics
  - military technology
  - mobility
  - nonhuman communication
  - optics
  - product design
  - production
  - robot
  - simulation
  - software manipulations
  - supercomputing
  - technophobia
  - telematics
  - telepresence
Technology
- Display
  - Electronic displays
    - BOOM (Binocular Omni-Orientation Monitor)
    - CAVE (Computered Augmented Virtual Environment)
    - computer monitor
    - dome
    - Electromechanical Display Device
    - Electronic Paper
    - flashlight
    - Head-up Display
    - Headphones
    - HMD (Head-mounted Display)
    - holography
    - laser
    - light-emitting diode
    - lightbox
    - plasma
    - printer
    - projection screen
    - projector
    - robotic
    - speakers
    - VFD (Vacuum Florescent Display)
    - VRD (Virtual Retinal Display)
  - Non-electronic displays
    - body
    - Book
    - easel painting
    - globe
    - house wall
    - inflatable structure
    - mirror
    - paper
    - sculpture
    - shutter glasses
    - sofa
    - Somatosensory System / Tactile Feedback Technology
    - table
- Hardware
  - camera
  - computer mouse
  - data glove
  - Joystick
  - MAC
  - Mobile Device
  - multi touchscreen
  - plotter
  - scanner
  - touchscreen
  - Video
  - webcam
- Interface
  - Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC)
  - Biological Sensor
  - biometrics
  - Body sensor
    - Body Tracking
    - brainwave sensor/brain-computer-interface
    - breathing sensor
    - Breathing-Balance-Interface-Vest
    - Endoscope
    - eye scanner
    - facial recognition system
    - Motion Capture
    - positiontracker
    - retina scanner
    - Speech Recognition
    - step sensor
  - camera recording
  - electromagnetism
  - interactive media
    - Auditory User Interface (AUI)
    - Augmented Reality Interfaces
    - breath based communication
    - Internet of Things (IoT)
    - Ludic Interface
    - MR-based (Mixed Reality) Interaction
    - Multi-Modal Interaction
    - tactile user interfaces
    - Tangible Acoustic Interface
    - Tangible User Interface (TUI)
    - Voice User interface
  - Non-electronic interface
    - bike
    - doll
    - furniture
    - plant
  - robotic interfaces
  - Soundgenerating device
    - Audiotape
    - keyboard
    - microphone
    - musical instrument
    - RFID (Radio-frequency Identification)
    - syntheziser
    - telephone
    - Theremin
    - turntable
    - voice analysis
  - virtual balance
- Software
  - C++
  - CGI/Perl
  - CSS
  - Global Positioning System (GPS)
  - ISDN
  - Java
  - Linux
  - Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
  - periscope
  - PHP
  - RFID (Radio-frequency Identification)
  - SGI Onyx2
  - softimage
  - software interface
  - Video
  - VRML
  - Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
  - XML

Information

Lynn Hershman Leeson >

»Deep Contact«, 1986 - 1989

Cite

Archive of Digital Art (ADA). “Lynn Hershman Leeson - »Deep Contact«”. https://digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/deep-contact.html (retrieved 2009-27-10). @online{ADAartistprofile, author = {Archive of Digital Art (ADA)}, title = {Lynn Hershman Leeson - »Deep Contact«}, url = {https://digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/deep-contact.html}, urldate = {retrieved 2009-27-10}

Technology

Hardware

Pioneer LDP 6000 player;
computer (Apple Mac IIcx with two megabytes of RAM);
13" Microtouch Touchscreen

Descriptions & Essays

The next interactive piece, DEEP CONTACT (1989), directly involves the body of the viewer/participant who were required to touch the computerscreen. Viewers choreograph their own encounters in the vista of voyeurism by actually putting their hand on a touch sensative screen. This interactive videodisc installation compares intimacy with reproductive technology, and allows viewers to have adventures that change their sex, age and personality. Participants are invited to follow their instincts as they are instructed to actually touch their guide Marion on any part of her body. Adventures develop depending upon which body part is touched. The leather clad protagonist invites "extensions" into the screen and the screen becomes an extension of the viewer/participant's hand. Touching the screen encourages the sprouting of phantom limbs that become virtual connections between the viewer and the image.A surveillance camera was programmed to be switched "on" when a cameraman's shadow is seen. The viewer's image instantaneously appears on the screen, displacing and replacing the image... An erotic, interactive touch sensitive videodisk DEEP CONTACT compares intimacy to technology. Viewers can have adventures with the guide and have options of changing sex or personality. www.lynnhershman.com/.../deep_contact/deep_contact.html

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