Join us for a discussion and screening of Touch Museum by Julie Weitz.

In 2015-16, LA-based artist Julie Weitz envisioned a world in which physical contact would become obsolete, and perversely replaced by virtual touch simulated through the screen. Her immersive video installation Touch Museum combined multiple videos, an original soundscape by LA-based composer Deru and a Youtube channel featuring videos that examined the perceptual phenomenon known as ASMR. Writing in the LA Times Deborah Vankin described the exhibition, "Weitz's videos juxtapose the physical, textural experience of living with the more remote digital universe in which we're so often immersed. As the installation progresses, the videos become more rooted in the ASMR world while still offering a more universal commentary on sensuality." (LA Times article here.)