Technologised bodies

ERIC SUI - TOUCHY

Description:

Basically, Touchy is a camera helmet and it is wear-able. Anyone wear this helmet, the shutter of camera is closed which blocks the sight of person. But, when another touches the person's skin who are wearing it, shutter opens and camera will take pictures automatically until the person's is not being touched. Otherwise, the person is "blind" , cannot see.

The concept of this design is turning human into camera. By giving and receiving, people can see things, it can be applied to camera, Touchy and even real human eyes. The author intends to inspire audience to think about human relationship and create joyful interactions with people.

How does it change or extend abilities of human body?

This Touchy gives a function to human of taking pictures. Originally, people can see things but certainly not taking pictures. But now, skin of human changed to "the button" of camera and eyes of human changed to "lens" of camera. 

Before, any image that captured by human eyes can only be stored as memory in brain. But with this Touchy, images that seen by person can be stored in device directly.

What issues does this work raise about?

In the perspective of human relationship, Touchy can draw the distance between people closer. As people enjoy this machine by touching people. Now, we would like to emphasize the private space of each person, so it is quite embarrassing to touch others especially those you are not familiar. It helps to break the barrier between people and provide interesting interactions.

Another issue is the possibility of having "eye camera". Usually, the camera we use nowadays cannot wholly capture what we saw because the limitations of it. When we take a picture of sunset, it maybe darker or lighter than we really see. Then we have to adjust many things of camera to try to make it more look alike. When technology gets more advanced in future, it is possible we can really have a camera can take picture exactly like what we see.