From There to Here: Receiving Touch in a Telehaptic Space

This article explores the possibility of being in multiple places at the same time through telehaptic art. By analyzing projects such as Stelarc’s Ping Body, Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat’s Touch My Touch, and David Bowen’s Tele-present Wind, it examines how mechanical and digital interfaces translate remote actions into local sensory experiences. This reversed space creates a closed sensorium that makes the consequences of remote actions tangible, whether through simulated touch, physical pain, or ecological feedback. Ultimately, telehaptic art challenges the logic of acting at a distance by bringing the impact of those actions from there to here.