We did two interesting exercises in this week, following was my recording for these two exercises.
Exercise 1
1 Find a partner
2 Raise your arms, and touch each other’s finger tips
3 Keep this gesture for 1.5 minutes
4 open your eyes and watch each other for 10 seconds, and feeling the body reactions and the changes of your emotion.
Exercise 2
1 Find a partner
2 One of you closes eyes for 1.5 minutes and another people watch through the camera.
3 open eyes and wait for a short time
4 Remember the feeling
(image from google)
Physical contact
After closing my eyes, my breathing will gradually calm down, because the environment is very quiet, I can only feel the other's fingertips, and even the subtle changes of the fingertips can be felt. The first feeling after opening my eyes is that I feel awkward and fun, and I slowly feel a little nervous when I open my eyes. I don’t know what I was doing. Then from the very beginning, I can look directly at each other’s eyes until we slowly avoid the other's view of sight, and then feel hot? Just like in the Chinese martial arts novels, The ‘Qi’ was transformed to the others by hand, and I felt that my head was smoking. I feel ups and downs when I open my eyes, and I have been trying to control the fluctuations of my mood, like the struggle in my heart. The whole environment is quiet but with little fluctuations.
Through the camera
There is no special feeling after closing my eyes, just simply keep myself calm down. The embarrassing and interesting feelings, like the feeling in the first exercise, after opening my eyes was disappeared. There is no feeling when I faced to the cold camera, but I can feel someone watching me. Until the end of the exercise, my emotion always be very calm. I was also considering why I felt nothing. If this is a tiny camera which was set up in my room, I must feel be fearful about this.
This exercise led me to think of our team's project which tries to explore how technology affects people's boundaries.
After this exercise, I feel that human skin is not a real boundary for people. The boundary is fake. Because through the skin, I can still feel the exchange of information. Just like the sensitive touch of the blind, the skin is a channel, through which information is passed. But only limited to 10 meters around me? The boundary of my body is limited to the space of ten meters. On the contrary, through technology equipment, mobile phones, and an observation of each other, it seems that it really extends the range that my body and facial features can reach. This experiment is based on two people face to face, but we can see each other and hear each other through a mobile phone camera and a video call from a person thousands of kilometers away. The range I can perceive becomes thousands of kilometers.
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