This work – ‘Losing Touch – A research on visualizing emotional data’ – is an artistic research project that explores the meaning and impact of everyday haptic stimulations on our bodies and minds. It addresses the effects of mainly physically-deficient stimulating environments of everyday life and tries to visualize them to create awareness. Touch is so obvious and ordinary in our everyday experience to the extent that it is perceived as almost meaningless, but it is crucial to our existence. Next to a theoretical part that explores the dynamics of touch sensations, multiple experiments like multiple data sculptures comparing days of haptic sensations and an interactive touch installation aim to start a conversation around that topic and emphasize its importance.
