examine | touch

Books

• Ackerman, Diane. (1990). A Natural History of the Senses. New York, New York: Random House.•
• Bataille, Georges. (1986). Erotism: Death and Sensuality. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books.•
• Boff, Kenneth R. & Kaufman, Lloyd, & Thomas, James P. (eds.). (1986). Handbook of Perception and Human Performance: Cognitive Processes and Performance. New York: Wiley.
• Classen, Constance. (ed.) (2005). The Book of Touch. Oxford: Berg.•
• Cohen, Bonnie Bainbridge. (c1993). Sensing, Feeling, and Action: The Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind Centering. Northampton, MA.: Contact Editions.
• Epp, Ellie. (2002). Being About: Perceiving, Imagining, Representing, Thinking. Burnaby, BC: Simon Fraser University. (Ph.D. Thesis).
• Field, Tiffany. (2001). Touch. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.•
• Holler, Linda. (2002). Erotic Morality: The Role of Touch in Moral Agency. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
• Katz, David. (ed. & trans. Lester E. Krueger). (1989). The World of Touch. Hilldale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.•
• Marks, Laura U. (2002). Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.•
• Montagu, Ahsley. (1971). Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.•
• Morris, Desmond. (1971). Intimate Behaviour. New York, NY: Random House.
• Vasseleu, Cathryn. (1998). Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas. London: Routledge.•
• Wada, Yoshiko I., & Rice & Barton. (1997). (7th edition). Shibori: The Inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing. Tokyo: Kodansha International.•
• Wada, Yoshiko I. (2002). Memory on Cloth: Shibori Now. Tokyo: Kodansha International.•

Film

• Chang, Kun, director. (2001). Touch - The Forgotten Sense. Jean Lemire & Roger Frappier (producers). Max Film Television Inc.

Papers

• E. Rehmi Post, Maggie Orth. (1997). Smart Fabric, or Washable Computing. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://web.media.mit.edu/~rehmi/fabric/index.html
• Sculpted Computational Objects, with Smart and Active Computing Materials, Orth, M., Thesis for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, (May, 2001). (accessed April, 2003).
  http://web.media.mit.edu/~morth/thesis/thesis.html
• E-broidery: Design and Fabrication of Textile-based Computing, Post, E.R., Orth, M., Russo, P.R., Gershenfeld, N., IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 39, Nos 3&4, Armonk, NY, IBM Corporation, (2000). (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/393/part3/post.html
• The Embroidered Musical Ball: A Squeezable Instrument for Expressive Performance, Weinberg, G., Orth, M., and Russo, P., (short paper), Proceedings of Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (CHI 2000), The Hague: ACM Press, (2000). (accessed April, 2003).
  http://web.media.mit.edu/~morth/chiball/chiball.pdf
• Smart Fabric, or Washable Computing, Post, E.R., Orth, M., The Digest First IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Cambridge, MA, (1998). (accessed April, 2003).
  http://web.media.mit.edu/~rehmi/fabric/index.html
• Fabric Computing Interfaces, Orth, M., Post, R., and Cooper, E. B., (short paper), Proceedings of Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (CHI '98), Los Angeles, ACM Press, (1998). (accessed April, 2003).
  http://web.media.mit.edu/~morth/fabCHI/chifabric.pdf
• Triangles: Tangible Interface for Manipulation and Exploration of Digital Information Topography, Gorbet,M., Orth M., and Ishii, H., in Proceedings of Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (CHI 1998), Los Angeles, ACM Press, (1998). (accessed April, 2003).
  http://web.media.mit.edu/~morth/fabCHI/chifabric.pdf
• Triangles: Design of a Physical/Digital Construction Kit, Gorbet, M., and Orth, M., in Proceedings of Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '97), Amsterdam, ACM Press, (1997) pp. 125-128. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://web.media.mit.edu/~morth/tridis/tridis.pdf
• Interface to Architecture: Integrating Technology into the Environment of the Brain Opera, Orth, M., The Proceedings of Design of Interactive Systems, (DIS 1997), Amsterdam, ACM Press, (1997). (accessed April, 2003).
  http://web.media.mit.edu/~morth/dis97/bodis.pdf
• Excitable Tissues and Virtual Worlds: Art, Science, and Technology. Catherine Richards (c2000). inno'v@-tion2. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.innovation.ca/innovation2/bio_richards.html
• Smart Fabric, or "Wearable Clothing", Digest of Papers, First International Symposium on Wearable Computers, 1997. Pages 167-168. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.computer.org/proceedings/iswc/8192/81920167abs.htm
• Interactive Electronic Textile Development: A Review of Technologies, Meoli, D., and May-Plumlee, Tin Journal of Textile Apparel, Technology and Management, Volume 2, Issue 2, North Carolina State University. (Spring 2002). (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.tx.ncsu.edu/jtatm/volume2issue2/ articles/meoli/meoli_full.pdf
• Design of a Wearable Tactile Display, Gemperle, F., Ota, N., and Siewiorek, D., IEEE Computer Society. (2001). (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.wearablegroup.org/publications/tactile-display.pdf
• Sensitive Skin. Lumelsky, V.J., Shur, M.S., and Wagner, S., IEEE Sensors Journal, Volume 1, Number 1. (June, 2001).
• Touch This. Tactility in Recent Contemporary Art. Ullrich, Polly. New Art Examiner, Vol. 24, December 1996-January 1997, pp. 10-15.
• Giuseppe Penone: Éloge du toucher (Giuseppe Penone: In Praise of Touch). Piguet, Philippe (using artist's words). Oeil, (544) 2003, pp. 54-57.
• Horst Egon Kalinowsky (sic): A Mysticism of the Skin. Lipovetsky, Gilles. Cimaise, Vol. 36, No. 202, September-October, 1989. pp. 29-48.
• Beyond Touch: The Body As Perceptual Tool. Ullrich, Polly. Fiberarts, Vol. 26, No. 1 , Summer, 1999. pp. 43-48.
• Schiphorst, Thecla et al. (unpublished paper). The Meaning of Touch: a tactile gestural interface taxonomy based on Laban Effort/Shape Analysis.

Websites

touch art

• Thecla Schiphorst. BodyMaps: Artifacts of Touch (1996), and Felt Histories (1999) installations. "Sentient Touch", HorizonZero, Issue 4 (2002). (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.horizonzero.ca/loader_en.html and http://www.art.net/~dtz/schipo1.html
• Janet Cardiff. To Touch (1993).
  http://www.abbeymedia.com/Janweb/touch.htm
• Thecla Schiphorst and Susan Kozel. whisper: wearable body architecture. (2002). (accessed April, 2003).
  http://whisper.surrey.sfu.ca/what.html
• Jean Dubois. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://eavm.uqam.ca/eavm/enseignants/dubois/image4.html
• Jean Dubois - in Horizon 0, Issue 4 (2003). (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.horizonzero.ca/loader_en.html
• Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau. Works. (accessed September, 2003).
  http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~christa/index.html
• Christian-A. Bohn, Monika Fleischmann, Wolfgang Strauss. Liquid Views (1993). (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.siggraph.org/artdesign/gallery/S98/artists/artists3/fleischman.html
• Alan Dunning and Paul Woodrow. The Mnemonic Body (Einsteins' Brain Project). (2001). (accessed October, 2003).
  http://www.subtletechnologies.com/2002/mnemonicbody.html
• Stephen Wilson. Info Art Artist Links. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://online.sfsu.edu/~infoarts/links/wilson.artlinks2.html#motion
• Richard Register. Tactile Dome: In Touch With Feeling. (orig. 1971). The Exploratorium. (accessed September, 2003).
  http://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/tactile_dome/index.html
• Erwin Driessens, Maria Verstappen. Tickle Salon. (accessed September, 2003).
  http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot/TickleSalon/TickleSalon.html
• The Presence of Touch. Livingstone, Joan and Wilson, Anne (exhibition curators), Department of Fiber, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago July, 1996. (accessed November, 2003).
  http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/touch/mainframe.html

interfaces

• Inter-Face (female). (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.alterfin.com/dominique/index.html
• Inter-Face (male). (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.alterfin.com/yariv/index.html
• ICMI Conference: Fifth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://icmi.cs.ucsb.edu/
• Affective Computing (MIT Media Lab). (accessed Spetember, 2003).
  http://affect.media.mit.edu/

intimacy

• Essay; Subject of Touch. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://tp.art.chez.tiscali.fr/essaia.html
• Diana Daffner. The Lover's Touch (poem). (accessed September, 2003).
  http://www.innerself.com/Sex_Talk/lovers_touch.htm

multimedia programming with MAX/MSP + Jitter

• Cycling74. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.cycling74.com/products/index.html
• Squished Eyeball: "Eyes" video sensing software for MAX. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.squishedeyeball.com/
• The Microcontroller Idea Handbook (excerpts). (accessed April. 2003).
  http://www.lvr.com/files/mibch1.pdf

sensors

• iCube and sensors for MAX/Jitter. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.infusionsystems.com/products/max-plugins-20x.shtml
• Tactile Sensing. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.soton.ac.uk/~rmc1/robotics/artactile.htm
• Source for sensors. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://music.calarts.edu/~cchaplin/lev/archive/1998-december/msg00007.html
• Project lyt_A. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://lib.fo.am/cgi-bin/view/Libarynth/ProjectLyta#Sensor_technology
• Tron Link Enterprises Co., Ltd. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.psism.com/tee.htm
• Ken Rinaldo Technical Links for Artists: Sensors. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.ylem.org/artists/krinaldo/links/technical.html#t6
• Electric Field Proximity Sensor. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.bik.com/
• Tactile Sensors. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.soton.ac.uk/~rmc1/robotics/artactile.htm
• Emfitech elastic electret film sensors. (accessed May, 2003).
  http://www.emfit.com
• Digi-Key electronic components. (accessed May, 2003).
  http://dkc1.digikey.com/ca/digihome.html

smart fabrics | conductive textiles | wearables

• Sensatex. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.sensatex.com/
• Smart Shirt, Georgia Insttitute of Technology. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/archive/news_releases/sensatex.html
• SOFTswitch. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.softswitch.co.uk/SOFTswitchAbout.html
• Elektex. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.eleksen.com/flash/default.shtml
• xTactex. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.tactex.com/index.htm
• Smartex. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.smartex.it/uk/projects/garsensor.htm
• Thinking Materials. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.thinkingmaterials.com/
• Sensory Fabrics Project, Design for Life Centre, Brunel University, West London, UK. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/dfl/electro.htm
• Musical Jacket Project. Media Lab, MIT University. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.media.mit.edu/hyperins/levis/
• Helping Computers Escape From Their Boxes Out Into the World. Maggie Orth, Opera of the Future Group, MIT. (accessed April 2003).
  http://web.media.mit.edu/~morth/TTTtalk.htm
• Matthew Broersma. Smart Clothing Expected to Take Off. (September 5, 2002). CNET News.com. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://news.com.com/2100-1040-956696.html
• Mark Baard. E-Fabrics Still Too Stiff to Wear. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,56708,00.html
• Burton AmpJacket, Burton Snowboards. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://burton.com/gear/pr_amp_jacket.asp
• The Visually Unobtrusive WearComp. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://wearcam.org/historical/node11.html
• Touchware, ACM SIGGRAPH 98. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.siggraph.org/artdesign/gallery/S98/touch.html
• Glenn Grant. In A Store Near You; Smart Fabrics. Freelance Traveller. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/consgoods/smartfab.html
• Edward Willett. (2001). Smart Fabric. Edward Millett's Intergalactic Library - Science Columns. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.edwardmillett.com/Columns/smartfabric.htm
• Kevin Bonsor. How Computerized Clothing Will Work. HowStuffWorks. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.howstuffworks.com/computer-clothing.htm
• Katie Dean. Smart Fatigues Hear Enemy Coming. Wired. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.wired.com/news/gizmos/0,1452,55764,00.html
• Leander Kahney. Introducing Touchy-Feely Tech. Wired. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,40117,00.html
• Charles M. Rollis. What Is Touch? (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.chiroweb.com/archives/16/09/07.html
• International Fashion Machines. (MIT Media Lab startup). (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.ifmachines.com/
• Technical Textiles Net. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.technical-textiles.net/webindex.htm
• Luminex. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.luminex.it/ and http://www.zuzka.com/luminex_new/index.html
• Metal Fibres in Textiles. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.bekaert.com/bft/34_set.htm
• Reima Smart Clothing. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://www.reimasmart.com/
• Brian Toone, and James Chen. Computational Textile. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://graphics.cs.ucdavis.edu/~jchen007/UCD/ECS289B/ Presentation/ComputationalTextile.ppt
• Project lyt_A Distance Touch Generator Prototype. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://f0.am/lyt_A/
• Groupe Liaison Ordinateur Vestimentaire (Wearable Computer Social Network). (accessed April, 2003).
  http://glov.3webmedia.com/
• GLOV: L'ordinateur vestimentaire, UQAM. (accessed April, 2003).
  http://glov.3webmedia.com/fr/

social taboos

• Interdit de toucher (Touching Prohibited). (accessed September, 2003).
  http://tp.art.chez.tiscali.fr/essai1a.html