DEEP CONTACT
1984-1989

An erotic, interactive touch sensitive videodisk DEEP CONTACT compares intimacy to technology. Viewers can have adventures with the guide and have options of changing sex or personality.

Featured at: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Ars Elelctronica, International Center for Photography, Expo 91, Finland, Fresno Art Museum, Video Galleriet, Copenhagen Denmark, Rijksmuseum Enschede, Netherlands, Images du Future, Montreal, Canada; Medienalle, Karlsruhe, BMS Munich, Germany St. Lawrence University, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Magnetoscope, Rio de Janero, Brazil, University of California, Davis Robert Nelson Gallery and others.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

The videodisk is an ODC glass DRAW disk composed of about 60 segments. It plays on a Pioneer LDP 6000 player which can be driven by the computer over a serial port. The particular driver used in the stack is an X - command written compiled in LightSpeed C by Jim Crutchfield.The user interface was designed and programmed by Sara Roberts. The program exists as a single 300 K stack in HyperCard in which each segment of the videodisk represents a card in the stack. Graphics were scanned using HyperScan and altered using Super Paint. The program runs on a Apple Mac IIcx with two megabytes of RAM. The monitor is a 13" Microtouch Touchscreen.