Touch and See? Regarding Images in the Era of the Interface

We are made one with what we touch and seeOscar Wilde, Panthea, 1881 Many of our gestures are still traditionally configured. Others surprise and sometimes repulse us.The new is always monstrous. V...

Abstract | Index | Outline | Author's notes | Text | Bibliography | Notes | References | About the author Abstract Not only are we now surrounded by a plethora of images that derive from automatic mechanical protocols, “technical images” as Wilém Flusser would call them, but vision itself is controlled by technological processes—manually activated interfaces that condition the appearance of images in terms of size, quality and resolution, as well as duration. Our experience as viewers increasingly become that of “users”: we touch the screen to activate a menu and select a resolution, to…

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