"...
...Your palm is now your main portal to the digital environment. The interface is projected onto the inside of your palm, and the content is projected onto the outside.
Use your left hand, move it smoothly and slowly.
Place your palm under the projector beam. Wait until the image appears.
-to "switch" content, turn your hand so that
the inside of the palm faces up, then back down again
-to "save" information, clench your palm into a fist
-to "go beyond the frame", connectthe index fingers
and thumbs of both hands...
..."
Documentation from exhibition "On Depth and Surface: In the Realm of Screens" at Art&Science Center ITMO, St.Petersburg, Russia, 09-30.10.24
Among screen practices, mobile practices or touch-based practices are increasingly taking center stage. The form and scale of the device we carry with us daily, mediating our experience of the digital environment, are directly inherited from and linked to the shape and scale of the human palm. This mode of vision has been metaphorically referred to as palm vision by art-historian Boris Klyshnikov.
The interactive installation Palm Vision is a project in the genre of speculative design, which removes the physical plane of the screen from this system and allows, in a literal sense, for direct contact with its content. The project emphasizes the corporeality embedded in digital interactions and explores an alternative form of these interactions—one without the traditional boundary of the screen, without its singular flatness, and with the potential to pass through the body like a living, organic conductor, transforming the sterile world of digital spaces.
Tools: MediaPipe, Touchdesigner, Gen3
Documentation by Luda Burchenkova and Sasha Perova