At Hand, an interactive piece of art, by Heidi Tikka (software designed by Teemu Korpilahti) opens on the City Wall Helsinki in Lasipalatsi as part of the Helsinki Festival Night of Arts on Friday 27 August, 2010. It is designed for touch screens in a public space.
The project is about urban gestures, micro spaces of the street and the possibility of encountering otherness. European flow of migration is its starting point, specifically the recent appearance of beggars in Helsinki’s city spaces. How should we encounter and respond to the new gestures of plea directed towards us?
The project explores the experiential and expressive possibilities of multi-user touch interaction via an orchestration of intimate close-ups of gesturing hands and the dynamics of the touch interface. It is custom designed for the MultiTouch screen technology and will be presented on the CityWall interactive screen installed at Lasipalatsi in the centre of Helsinki. More info at: http://m-cult.org/projects/hand
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