Humans have obsession with pictures. Strange, though it may seem, but we must have a picture of our loved one on our desk. The Telepresence Frame is a satirical take (at least it seems to me that way) precisely on this very affinity of ours. Created by Revital Cohen – a Second Year student at the Department of Design Interactions, Royal College of Arts – this art piece tries to make sense of the emotional dimension of the machines that keep us alive in modern age. He believes that the line between machines in the ICU and the patient himself are increasingly getting blurred. In fact, the machine and human anatomy are merging.

So Revital Cohen designs objects and scenarios:

that are not only derived from material and process, but ones which refer to anxieties, superstition, passion, traumas, irrationalism, fantasy, perversion and love.

Thus, his Telepresence Frame depicts the fact that the records of patients kept by the Human Black Box create a sort of digital presence. Once the patient dies, his life data can be played, depicting his Telepresence. Even when you are alive, this frame can be kept with your loved ones, which will constantly make them aware of your physical state in the hospital.

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