IMPRINT

Keyboard, mouse and display terminal.

1, 0 - DA and AD.

Brush, ink and paper.

Haptic information from what I'm doing.

The movement of tissues and the stimuli they communicate to me.

Position, touch, heat and cold.

Balance.

Pressure and vibration.

Sight, smell, taste and hearing.

Internal senses and pain.

Multisensory integration.

From which is humanity formed of? 

Imprint

                                           explores the difference between human and machine-mediated marks by situating making as a bodily event rather than a purely visual outcome. The work focuses on the sensorial conditions of production and the traces left by action prior to their translation into symbols or data.

At its center is the contrast between embodied gesture and mediated execution. Human making unfolds through posture, pressure, balance, and tactile feedback. Each mark emerges through negotiation between intention and material resistance, activating sensorimotor processes that extend beyond conscious control and producing traces that register movement, effort, and affect.

This mode of production is set against digitally mediated action, where contact is abstracted and variability minimized. Although visual results may appear similar, the experiential conditions differ fundamentally. Agency shifts from the body to systems optimized for efficiency, repetition, and control, rendering the act of making increasingly opaque to the maker.

Sound operates as a parallel register. Organic rhythms coexist with mechanical and infrastructural noise, articulating the divergence between bodily temporality and technological cadence. These sonic elements register presence and circulation without functioning as commentary.

The work concludes by situating human action within an indifferent environment. Agency appears temporary and relational, as traces persist while control does not. Continuity extends beyond intention, authorship, and meaning.

Within Siika's practice, Imprint functions as a conceptual counterpoint, turning toward pre-discursive foundations of subjectivity. It proposes that social life is shaped as much by repeated sensory encounters as by language and belief.

Imprint asks from what humanity is formed. The answer offered is neither technological nor romantic, but located in the ongoing negotiation between touch and abstraction, presence and mediation, action and the traces it leaves behind.

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