From the end of April 2025, we will show Haptic Fields by Mads Kjeldgaard here in Notam's presentation room.
Haptic Fields is a series haptic vibrating sculptures in wood. Each sculpture contains a vibrator motor. By reusing customised electronics, technology from sex toys, smartphones and gamepads is used to translate sound into vibrations - a tactile language familiar in our modern times through the daily use of consumer electronics. The wooden sculptures have rough surfaces, which invite the viewer to take - and feel the sounds they transmit - sounds that originate from field recordings of birds, beaches and wind, among other things.
The sculptures in Haptic Fields explores this fundamental question; How do we listen with our skin?
Norwegian Centre for Technology, Art and Music