Skin Hunger: A Telematic Installation

ABSTRACT

Skin Hunger is a web-based interactive system for telematic installation and performance that plays on the zoom-style video-chat that has become ubiquitous during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants in the telematic installation can reach across the webcam screens to virtually 'touch' one another. By touching or moving together, participants create virtual organisms and sounds that emerge and evolve from participant relation and interaction, making the intangible connection tangible and giving it life. Skin Hunger explores a new way of enabling embodied joint music making and movement over a distance. © 2022 ACM.