Deep Touch

Deep Touch is a performative video using a Soft Computing sculpture The piece is inspired by the oftcited Matt Mahurin image made for a 1995 Time Magazine cover story on cyberporn in which a man hugs a glowing computer This simple gestureembracing the device one spends so much time withis cast in a sinister light a deviation from normal desire Twentyfive years hence in a time when we touch and caress our devices all day long heightened even further by quarantine the desire to embrace our technologies seems normal and obvious