CONTACT ZONE / INTERFACE

* Various exchanges between self and other - self an world.

Our skin feels in a tactile sense―we feel heat, cold, pain, caresses―but also in an emotional sense as we, voluntarily or involuntarily, react to various stimuli with goose bumps, shivers, sweat, blushing or physical signs of lust or disgust. Skin registers, produces, and passes on emotion in visible form, as odour, or taste.

We feel hot, cold and pain.
We react to various stimuli with sweat, blushing or disgust.
The skin registers and produces.
The skin passes on emotion in visible form.


- Hitte - waarschuwing - pijn
- jeuk - uitslag
- Kou - kippenvel
- Sensule gevoelens
- Bescherming van je lichaam

Probing the Skin - Cultural Representations of Our Contact Zone
Edited by Caroline Rosenthal and Dirk Vanderbeke

Technical interfaces

Human Skin as a Touch-Screen Interface

(Hidden) Skin Interface - Chen Yiyun