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Our Digital Selves
Collaboration
speculative
âEcstatic Wholenessâ by The Fabricant
âEcstatic Wholenessâ by The Fabricant
"With the emergence of the Metaverse, we can reinvent ourselves in ways in which weâve always dreamt. Modem teamed up with The Fabricant, SHOWstudio and Anastasiia Fedorova to imagine how our virtual alter-egos could change the ways we think about ourselves. Expanding on the work of The Fabricant, which explores the malleable future of human identity through non-physical garments, Our Digital Selves studies the ambiguous relationship between the real and the virtual self"
âWhen musing on fashion and identity, itâs always worth asking: when does wearing something truly change the meaning of who we are?â
22.11.24
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GIRLSTACK
Individual
speculative
image by siir bicer
Building on the ideas of Tiqqunâs 1999 anti-neoliberal treatise Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl, Andrea Long Chuâs Females and Bogna Koniorâs work on the girl and the inhuman vis-a-vis the machinic, Quicho has developed a concept she calls the âGirlstack,â which, to borrow her words, models the âultrasmooth, cybergothic, and angelic dimensions of the girlâs natural habitat.â Quicho articulates how the âgirlâ inhabits no one person, body, or gender. She is a technology of subjectivity composed of symbolic, consumer, and inhuman elements and might be our only way out of the platform trap. Quicho's reformulation of 'the stack' was first published as an essay on Wired and expanded at BODYSTACK and Creamcake 3HD.
Quichoâs girl-stack is a speculative prototype models themany dimensions of the girlâs natural online habitat. To be clear: Quicho does not speak of actual girls or the experience of lived girlhood, but a socially constructed ideation of the girl. So, the girl as a vehicle for selling product, the girl as a tool for manipulating entrenched power, the girl as living currency, and the girl as desiring machine. The model is imperative for understanding the environment that produces the âgirl as conditionâ.
22.11.24