Voiceworks Online: ‘In Touch’ is Within Reach

Voiceworks Online presents ‘In Touch’, our second digital issue. Each day, a new artist presents a new digital work. To navigate the pieces, all you have to do is hold our hand (or at least click on it).

Keep in touch. Don’t touch me, your hand is a vector and a vector is direction and magnitude and exponential growth is up and out and up again. A bat is going viral, the world is gathering dust. The world wide web with a spider in the middle. There is a hamster dancing beneath your foot, there is your foot hovering over the web crawler, there is the web crawler rolling on the floor laughing. Rolling and scrolling and I’m never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down. Watch out! There are hot singles in your area! They’re swarming like millennium bugs. They’re going viral. Ceiling cat is watching you. Or maybe I’m out of touch, you’re out of time, I’m out of my head when you’re not around. Out of my head and into the matrix and your body is code for something, a card reader or a palm reader and here is the love line. He’s offline. Dial up. Brrrr wzzzzz and hi! I’m clippy, it looks like you’re trying to write a letter. Are you losing touch? Touching is feeling is a hand on a page on a book in your hand on a screen, the warmth of your finger dissolving into 10101011 and into the wified air and i’m ok. hru?

—Blurb by Carly Stone and Pip Grylls