Man and interaction with the immaterial. Tactile dimensions: between art and technology

Abstract

The contemporary man is plunged in a tactile dimension of experience, a “hyperreal condition” in which the phenomenal reality is distorted by an increasingly sensorial dimension. It is noted as the greatest contradiction of our contemporary period: the subordination of the body to immaterial technologies and the concurrent reclamation of the sensorial dimension. The human propensity to virtualize underlines those unconscious dynamics that make the associative capability the main architect of reality. In fact, the concept of experience is insignificant when the subject, by a sort of “perceptual faith”, wants to apply to the phenomenal reality those fast-moving functions that derive from digitalization. However, those functions, like that of “coming back”, have no application to reality.