Matthew Mosher – Open for Business

Matthew Mosher

Title – weTouch

Business – Fascinations

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weTouch is a pair of networked devices – one located in this exhibition and one at Fascinations on Mill Avenue – that communicate through the sense of touch between two people. Technology has come a long way in bringing people together virtually across vast distances through telephone voice services and, more recently, computer video conferencing.  However, these interactions are limited to the visual and aural senses. During a video chat there is a creeping sensation of the other person not really being there; you can see them but cannot touch them, and you can never truly make eye contact.  Cell phones lack the quiet presence provided by simply sitting next to another person.

weTouch provides a third means of interaction. Through two internet-enabled handheld devices weTouch recognizes when, in the museum or in Fascinations, a person places their palm on the device.  When touched, the device sends a signal across the cloud to its paired device, causing its partner device to heat to body temperature. Should someone in the other location place their hand on the paired device, they will immediately know that someone in the original location is thinking of them. When the paired device is touched it will heat up the original device in response, letting both users have a quiet moment of sensory connection.

 

Open for Business Artist Spotlights:

Marco Rosicelli – Buffalo Exchange
Saskia Jorda – The Shoe Mill
Peter Bugg with Ryan Peter Miller – ASU Art Museum Store

Mary Lucking – Rúla Búla

David Tinapple – Cartel Coffee Lab

Cyndi Coon –  Downtown Tempe Community, Inc. (DTC)

Jon Haddock – The Headquarters

Tania Katan – The Library Bar & Grill*

Adam Murray – Caffe Boa

Wendy Furman – BrandX Custom T-Shirts

Matthew Mosher – Fascinations

Erin V. Sotak – La Bocca

Chris Todd – Sucker Punch Sally’s*

Jen Urso – The Bicycle Cellar

Nic Wiesinger – Monti’s La Casa Vieja

  

Related Links:

Matthew Mosher’s Website

Open for Business Printable Map 

Open for Business