http://grocs.dmc.dc.umich.edu/gallery 99 photos in 1 album en-US Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:39:27 -0500 Gallery 1.5.5-pl1, http://gallery.menalto.com/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 40 http://grocs.dmc.dc.umich.edu/gallery/albums/haptic/lights_circle.thumb.jpg http://grocs.dmc.dc.umich.edu/gallery 144 108 http://grocs.dmc.dc.umich.edu/gallery/haptic c0c05196c9c68472d1f50aec5c7b135d Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:03:10 -0400 http://grocs.dmc.dc.umich.edu/gallery/view_comments.php?set_albumName=haptic http://grocs.dmc.dc.umich.edu/gallery/albums/haptic/lights_circle.thumb.jpg http://grocs.dmc.dc.umich.edu/gallery/albums/haptic/lights_circle.sized.jpg http://grocs.dmc.dc.umich.edu/gallery/albums/haptic/lights_circle.thumb.jpg 108 144 This project 's title refers to the writings of Antonin Artaud, who proposed a "Theater of Cruelty" in France during the 1930's. In his manifestos and his larger work "The Theater and Its Double", Artaud invoked a fundamentally sincere and "essential theater", which would abandon the confining norms of the contemporary "artistic spectacle" to create an immediate experience <p> The Question: How can we use technology to regain our lost experience by making multiple modes of information reception possible simultaneously? How can the now static human body be repositioned in space as a moving, feeling entity? How can our senses be challenged, enhanced, or altered completely via technological mediation? How can the senses be reconnected and dangerously reconstructed? How can the senses be privileged, making signified experiences lived ones?