Eric Gunther is an artist and designer whose work explores technology, space, and human connectivity. Centering the body as a platform for technology-mediated interactions and emotions, he uses movement, sound, and vibration to open new sensory dimensions and reveal the deep interconnectedness of human experience. His practice questions the boundaries between the individual body and collective memory, embracing touch as a medium of creative expression and empathy. Gunther is the Creative Director and co-founder of SOSO, a digital experience design studio founded on the belief that technology should expand our ability to connect. He has completed design commissions for Google, IBM, Porsche, and Lincoln Center and has exhibited and performed at leading Institutions, including the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Trapholt Museum, Shanghai Biennale, and Transmediale.
Interactive installation, sound 2025
Boundless Body transforms a twelve-foot wooden bench into a threshold between the individual and the universal. Visitors sit side by side, feeling a poem through synchronized vibrations that ripple through their bodies, guided by a narrator’s voice. Sensations shift fluidly—from molecules to heartbeats to earthquakes—sparking an uncanny recognition of experiences both new and deeply familiar. Built on the logic of touch, the work uses vibration as its language, moving through free associations that bend perception across time and scale. The voice leads listeners into a boundless body that recalls everything: the ricochet of a pinball, the legs of a centipede, the gravitational pull of the moon, the simple pleasure of walking on a beach. As vibrations pass through strangers seated together, individual boundaries blur. Boundless Body proposes that beneath our separate skins lies a deeper connectivity: participation in the vibrational fabric of existence itself.
Materials: wood, vibrotactile transducers, headphones, projectors, computer, composed tactile vibrations, text and audio