Special opening times:

27th September 2023: 12 – 8 p.m.

28th September 2023: 12 – 8 p.m.

29th September 2023: 12 – 4 p.m.

27th September 2023: 6 – 8 p.m. „Meet the camera ethnographers“

There’s an extra chance to visit the exhibition – as part of the 31^st annual conference of the German Educational Research Association (GERA)’s subdivision Primary Education Research.

What happens to touch when we come together digitally? Does it get lost, or altered, or is it set loose to wander between and among the senses? Where humans interact with digital devices, the limits of what can be understood as touch appear to be shifting. Those unstable limits can be studied, probed, und experienced in the exhibition “Reinventing touch”: a camera ethnographic Blicklabor (laboratory of gazes) in which hands, heads, arms, faces, voices, earth, and glass interact as media of touch. The exhibited video installations provoke reflection on and reconsideration of touch, the senses, and digital media. Their protagonists are children for whom the digital is an integral part of everyday life – a generation that never experienced the analogue “old days”, and never will. Perhaps now is the time to ask whether touch is currently undergoing reinvention – in early childhood and beyond.

An exhibition by the camera ethnographic research team Bina E. Mohn, Pip Hare, and Astrid Vogelpohl together with Jutta Wiesemann, PI of the research project “Early Childhood and Smartphone“ within the collaborative research centre 1187 “Media of Cooperation”, University of Siegen, Germany. Realised in collaboration with greinerdesign and hosted by the Haus der Wissenschaft, Siegen.