Abstract from the essay Touch/Space: The Haptic in 21st-Century Video Art by Susanne Ø. Sæther. This essay was first published for the book Screen Space Reconfigured in 2020 by Amsterdam University. In it Sæther focuses upon the haptic in recent video art. Since COVID touch has become increasingly political. Who we touch, how we touch and what is out of bounds is at the forefront of all our minds.  

This interview on TRUST is with Onora O’Neill, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, UK and a member of the House of Lords, and former president of the British Academy. The interview is part of a podcast titled Bio-Ethics Bites. Bioethics is the study of the moral implications of new and emerging medical technologies.  

Digital Wonderings are a series of online speculations around the curatorial theme of TRUST. They can take any form, from a conversation, a short statement, a film or a photographic series. Invited contributors come from a wide range of disciplines and can respond and react to the theme and the format as they wish.