Speculative Touch Interface (Bone)

Do you ever feel your phone is haunting you? The device you whisper into and cradle watches, listens, tracks your micro-gestures, rewiring muscle memory and lengthening your eyeballs. You carry it like a talisman, and it carries as much about you as it can. We are already merging. What does it mean to be a body shaped by touchscreens?

The Speculative Touch Interface series engages in speculative archaeology, imagining unearthed artifacts from a near-far future where flesh and device have become profoundly entangled.

It is also an imaginary archive, surveying the discarded detritus of consumer culture for the material traces of an evolving human condition. The sculpture’s “skin” is made from mashed cardboard: the remains of ubiquitous Amazon boxes, reconstituted into a pulp that wraps, glitches, and reanimates. These new dermises envelop recycled plastic tubing, obsolete devices, and body parts both real and mediated. This material manipulation glitch-disrupts the relentless logic of the planetary supply chain, creating vibrant prosthetics simultaneously digital and corporeal, intimate and uncanny.

Informed by the text of glitch feminism and posthuman theory, this work celebrates fluidity, rupture, and illegibility. It proposes embodiment as prosthetic and insurgent, embracing a remix rendering the machine unrecognizable to itself, prompting its failure as a radical act.

Speculative Touch Interface Series:

• Speculative Touch Interface (Finger)
• Speculative Touch Interface (Hair)
• Speculative Touch Interface (CCTV)