Is technology disrupting traditional notions of togetherness, opening new avenues for connection, or killing off closeness altogether? These are some of the questions raised in the Science Gallery’s look at Intimacy and how it is quantified, optimised and commodified. Bringing together technology, neuroscience, art, behaviour, belief and trust; exhibition designer Rhona Byrne brings us up close and personal to human connections through a series of exhibition highlights such as Emotion Capture — Arthur Gouillart’s beautiful sculptures which are created by using magnetic field sensors and patches to track the motion of a tongue during a kiss. A series of events and talks accompany Intimacy.
