Emotional Transference
People can receive varying degrees of emotional transference through touching animate beings. The human’s sense capacity is broadened and deepened through doing this.
I definitely felt this gave me a good insight into the importance of the relationship between tactile stimuli and human emotions and broadened sense capacity. felt we needed to move away from working only with a digital approach and concentrate more on a material based one.
In this work, we are responding to how technology has developed as an alternative to materiality and reality. We also explored how this transfer can profoundly affect our emotions. This triggered feelings of touch and can be a new type of relationship for the contemporary human.
This project fits into the context of the importance of and the positive effects of emotion transference. Increasingly we are surrounded by digital things such as surrogates to replace physical contact in our daily lives.
This project really showed the human need to create connections with nature or living things. These virtual creatures could represent this human need and empathise with human feeling and collect positive memories.
I have used the concept of ‘surrogates’ represented by tactile creatures because it proved to have relaxing benefit s. We found that the audience, at the exhibition, were engaged and stimulated through interaction with these surrogates.