From There to Here: Receiving Touch in a Telehaptic Space

This article explores the possibility of being in multiple places at the same time through telehaptic art. By analyzing projects such as Stelarc’s Ping Body , Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat’s Touch My Touch , and David Bowen’s Tele-present Wind , it examines how mechanical and digital interfaces translate remote actions into local sensory experiences. This reversed space creates a closed sensorium that makes the consequences of remote actions tangible, whether through simulated touch, physical pain, or ecological feedback. Ultimately, telehaptic art challenges the logic of acting at a distance by bringing the impact of those actions from there to here.