Evoking the Senses

Katana Lippart: TOUCHFor the close of our Evoking the Senses programming series, we thought it would be a nice change of pace to shift from the vir...

Mica Scalin: TOUCH Transformer first presented Mica Scalin’s artwork in the June 2002 exhibition Mica and Misaki, also featuring the artwork of Mis...

Artists Chandi Kelley and Marissa Long have been thinking about the displacement and re-shuffling of meaning the last year has brought. Without sub...

We are vessels of observation, according to artist Felipe Goncalves. Our senses - touch, taste, sight, smell, sound - allow us to interpret the particles of existence around us. Watch as Goncalves explains why we don’t create, but rather manipulate what already is.

11 years ago today, FlatFile artists Jessica Cebra and Zach Storm collaborative exhibition, Snow Globe, opened at Transformer. The duo come back together for Evoking the Senses to discuss writings of Don DeLillo, experience mediated by digital technologies, non-digital existence, energy and sensation, and more.

In the video, futures, Jessica Cebra reflects upon her surroundings and meditates on how human behavior impacts these forces of nature.

Carolina transforms surfaces and words to reach the subconscious, turning textures and touch into blended sounds.

Watch artist Lily deSaussure create Seventeen, a work in progress stitched entirely by hand. Can you feel the texture of the thread and the importance of touch, in navigating each and every stitch?