Rethinking Space in Telepresence Art through Merleau-Ponty’s “Eye and Mind”
Rethinking Space in Telepresence Art through Merleau-Ponty’s “Eye and Mind”

Summary/Abstract: Eduardo Kac, an important contemporary telepresence artist, has maintained that telepresence art contributes to the breakdown of our sense of space. His argument rests in part on a reading of Merleau-Ponty’s “Eye and Mind.” Contrary to Kac on this matter, I argue that an interpretation of telepresence art through Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology does not inevitably lead to the conclusion that such art diminishes our experience of space; in fact, such a reading can reveal telepresence art to be a means of expanding that experience.

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