Libby Heaney

touch is a response-ability (Edition 3/3), 2020

Mixed media piece: 200 stills that are activated through code and displayed on a touchscreen (not included), ERC-721 token and physical print

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Ed. 3/3 + 1 AP

Participation is vital in touch is response-ability as participants’ touch controls the artwork frames in this interactive touch-screen animation. The work exposes Libby Heaney's extensive research into representations of the body in computer vision and artificial intelligence and parallels in art history, highlighting which bodies are seen and which are neglected in both. 

Heaney uses her self-written quantum computing code to abstract the literal representation of the bodies, enabling us to see them from alternative, multiple perspectives – boundary-less and form-less. The stills are watched with a computer vision algorithm – Open-Pose – which loses track of the body as it becomes increasingly plural and quantum.

The title refers to concepts from Karen Barad's essay On Touching: the Inhuman That Therefore I Am.

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Token Standard: ERC-721
Blockchain: Ethereum
Metadata: Frozen and decentralized
COA: Verisart Certified

touch is a response-ability (Edition 3/3)