Some featured works by @laurenleemack @gvgktang @breadfellow @minneatairu @GosiaWojas @MichelSALU @kariminilu @3liseortiz @nchuk @Bonsta5

“Can touch be expropriated from the body without consequences?”— @GosiaWojas Wojas examines the body’s role in perceiving touch and touch perception flatjournal.com/work/touchin… #phenomenology #jacquesderrida #jeanlucnancy #mauricemerleauponty #touch #deconstructionist #philosophy

“Touch, Touch, Remove” by @AndreaAvidad is an interactive, web-based work that places ‘touch’ in relation to a series of affiliated terms such as contact, proximity, distance, and remove. flatjournal.com/work/touch-t… #webart #netart #performanceart #video #ASMR #touch #COVID19

“Tactility of Everyday Objects” by @Bonsta5 documents surface textures of everyday objects through pencil rubbings & ink print, enlivening the relationship between commonplace objects & our hands. flatjournal.com/work/tactili… #objects #touch #pencilart #shading #tactileart

"Now I understand parenthesis as two hands grabbing my attention, not letting me ignore what is contained. A gesture for the reader to lean in." —Barbara Paulus flatjournal.com/work/parenth… #prose #humantouch

“The Mockup Aesthetic: Gestures of Transgression” by Leslie Liu is an interactive essay, designed to be viewed in Photoshop, about the politics of wheatpaste mockups flatjournal.com/work/the-moc… #graphics #wheatpaste #mockup #mockupdesign #PSD #writing #essay #design #designaesthetic

“Jewel at Playa Vista” by ann haeyoung responds to the connection between palm trees and Southern California’s colonial history. flatjournal.com/work/jewel-a… #postcolonial #losangeles #palmtrees #playavista #southerncalifornia #video #luxuryhomes

"As bodies, all of our movements create resonance—they collide with things, perhaps unseen and particulate but nevertheless material." –Katherine Adams flatjournal.com/work/haptic-… #sonic #sound #haptic #dance #choregraphy #performance #essay #writing #movement

“Embodied Pedagogies: Teaching Remotely in a Digital Age” by Jeremy Hahn and Peter Sebastian Chesney outlines the methods used by the authors in order to create practices of embodiment through remote instruction. flatjournal.com/work/embodie… #essay #pedagogy #teaching #remotelearning

“...my art doesn’t exist without the participants putting their hands on it.” –@smigla_bobinski flatjournal.com/work/optical… Today we feature an interview with intermedia artist Karina Smigla-Bobinski; interviewed by Ana Teresa Vicente. #art #multimedia #touch #interview #feature

"The Kiss" by @JasminBlasco is composed of a kissing code and a message in tongues—probing tensions between intimacy and surveillance to ask how we may carry secrets in a hyper-visible world. flatjournal.com/work/the-kis… #kiss #performance #video #code #tongue #intimacy

“A Vacuum Is Also a Plenum and Both Make Music Make Life” by @bighedva is an evocation of a night in Berlin where bodies are entangled between the sounds of Sunn O))) & the void. flatjournal.com/work/a-vacuu… #sunno #sound #music #noise #time #berlin #bodies #writing

Maddie Butler's aural work, “Tensing (MB+MJ /\ pm-am, 11:33-1:41 /\ 5.21-5.22, 20),” contends with the affective boundaries between two agents performing a sexting exchange. flatjournal.com/work/tensing… #sound #soundart #performance #intersubjectivity

“Red Earth” by @MichelSALU is a processed-based, cross-media project that features images that are programmatically transformed through a series of translations of Salu’s prose. flatjournal.com/work/red-ear… #yoruba #digitalsculptures #postcolonial #data #translation #digitalart

In "Muted" @laurenleemack's screen-based experience crafts rich, layered soundscapes, voice recordings, animated alt-text, & photo documentation that coalesce into a poetic re-telling of works made throughout the pandemic. flatjournal.com/work/muted/ #soundart #covid19 #alttext

“Greens and Blues” by @breadfellow is an AV collage that explores the imagery of gardening to reflect on relational growth & care: like plants, relationships need trimming & watering. flatjournal.com/work/greens-… #blue #archive #care #tending #video #VR #therapy #garden

“It’s always winter when you’re willing to travel in it." Today we feature justine nguyễn-nguyễn’s “Matutinal Mating” from issue 0.2 Touch. flatjournal.com/work/matutin…

“BRUNT DRAMA” by Matthew Lax is an animated video that features the neutralized domain of crash test dummies primed into a series of vignettes that muddle the boundaries between labor and love. flatjournal.com/work/brunt-d… #3danimation #video #labor #love #animation

“Ophthalmics” by @minneatairu is a video that interpolates GAN portraits; the generative gazes of Atairu’s portraits impart detailed textures of the human skin. flatjournal.com/work/ophthal… #skin #portrait #GAN #GANs #generativeart #video #digitalart

“Abecedarian after border speeches” by @ @kariminilu & @3liseortiz involves 2 poems fashioned by the artists’ custom-designed “Border font.” Border font is based on 40 borders initiated or substantially fortified between 2000 and 2020. flatjournal.com/work/abeceda… #poetry #font #type