Tramas in-tangíveis: experimentações entre corpo, matéria e moda

Abstract

This research aims to explore the body(s) from the perspectives of the areas of art, fashion, technology and materialities, to understand how they are being reconfigured by the phygital (Physical/Digital) environment and develop an object of art, as an extension of this discussion. The aim is to relate the behavior of contemporary society from the perspective of consumption, communication and interaction, intrinsic to the intangible, which reverberates in the tangible and to the technological devices that surround contemporary bodies, with a focus on the area of fashion. It is argued in the research that the human body performs alongside technologies in an almost inseparable way, in which the physical body is coupled to devices and has in virtuality a fertile space for different possibilities of extension/representation, thus being able to transform itself into a “biocybernetic body” or a reconfigured body (SANTAELLA, 2004, p. 75).The methodology has a qualitative approach with na exploratory-descriptive objective and bibliographic and documentary procedures, in order to understand and tension the limits and approximations between the fields of knowledge of art and fashion, and their relationships with the notion of body. As it is an emerging object of new technologies, the concept of a digital body that is reconfigured by technological devices is a relatively recent subject and still has little theoretical reference, especially when it comes to the specific scope of the research. In effect, it is expected that through this research there will be a contribution both to the scientific development of the reflection in question, as well, producing an “art object”, relating research to making and material, therefore, thinking about possible reconfigurations of the body, materiality and fashion.