Touch Me :: Feel better! :: Sound Capsule :: Satoshi Morita
Kontejner - www.kontejner.org/
Festival
Touch Me Festival 2008 - Feel better!
Feel better! Art at intersection of technology and science
19.12.2008. - 23.12.2008.
Student Center, Zagreb
This year’s festival has a name with connotations of pleasure − Feel Better!. Touch me festival is still testing out how the individual can be bound into the network of mechanical, electro-mechanical, electronic and cybernetic aids and biotechnology, and the non-critical attitude of society towards ethical issues that the changes in contemporary technological reality open up. The topic of this edition of the international festival is related to the imperatives of happiness, pleasure and hedonism, and draws upon paradigms that explain how in the contemporary social and political system the issue of stability and control has been diverted from the area of power and repression
to the area of happiness and fun. It starts off from the proposition that being down, gloomy, depressive, uninterested is equivalent to being socially unacceptable. Some of the pieces in the festival thus attempt to cheer the visitors up, to shift them into a state of short-lasting hedonism, provide them with all kinds of sensual and sensory pleasures, known and unknown.
Touch Me :: Feel better! :: Sound Capsule :: Satoshi Morita
Kontejner - www.kontejner.org/
Festival
Touch Me Festival 2008 - Feel better!
Feel better! Art at intersection of technology and science
19.12.2008. - 23.12.2008.
Student Center, Zagreb
This year’s festival has a name with connotations of pleasure − Feel Better!. Touch me festival is still testing out how the individual can be bound into the network of mechanical, electro-mechanical, electronic and cybernetic aids and biotechnology, and the non-critical attitude of society towards ethical issues that the changes in contemporary technological reality open up. The topic of this edition of the international festival is related to the imperatives of happiness, pleasure and hedonism, and draws upon paradigms that explain how in the contemporary social and political system the issue of stability and control has been diverted from the area of power and repression
to the area of happiness and fun. It starts off from the proposition that being down, gloomy, depressive, uninterested is equivalent to being socially unacceptable. Some of the pieces in the festival thus attempt to cheer the visitors up, to shift them into a state of short-lasting hedonism, provide them with all kinds of sensual and sensory pleasures, known and unknown.