Mediatic Handology, Volume XX, No 35: Shaping Images, Interacting, Magicking

Hands emerge as decisive operators of visibility, shaping perception through gesture, care, and visualization.

Digital culture, taken etymologically, means a culture of the fingers (from the Latin digitus). Although our contemporary times are still envisioned through the lens of an over-reigning visual paradigm, our media practice has become mainly bodily, since the role of hands has proven ever more decisive and as gestures have increasingly been constructed as tools for thinking and concep...