Online Fashion Systems,   

2025/2026 Syllabus
The Online Fashion Systems module explores how fashion operates within digital cultures, networks, and infrastructures. Framing aesthetic strategy as a critical and creative method, the course investigates how online systems shape meaning, identity, and value — and how practitioners can engage with, subvert, or reimagine these frameworks.

Through a mix of theory, practice, and experimentation, participants will engage with digital platforms, images, and interfaces as cultural materials. The module emphasizes digital agency and literacy, encouraging participants to see the internet not only as a medium but as a dynamic structure for connection, communication, and creation.


 
    

Online Fashion System(s) GLOSSARY
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Anna Trevisan

Deepnudes

 Deepnudes are AI-generated, non-consensual nude images created by digitally undressing individuals in photographs. The term combines "deepfake" and "nude", emphasising its role as a deceptive synthetic media practice that fuses physical and digital violations. Deepnudes disproportionately target women, undermining their bodily autonomy by enabling the unauthorised manipulation and distribution of sexualised images. Unlike traditional forms of revenge porn, deepnudes do not require real, explicit photographs, making them a dangerously sophisticated tool for harassment, blackmail and digital exploitation. This phenomenon highlights the ethical dangers of AI and the urgent need for legal protections and digital consent frameworks. The Undressed Body in the Age of Deepfakes
Charlie Dröge

Digital Anti-Digitalism

 A paradoxical phenomenon in which anti-digital ideals - such as the desire to disconnect, return to tangible experiences or embrace physical practices - are disseminated through digital spaces. It highlights the contradiction of using digital platforms to advocate for non-digital engagement, revealing the tension between digital and physical realms. Digital anti-digitalism critiques the pervasive influence of digital culture while relying on it for visibility, forming an ironic loop in which resistance to digitality is itself digital. Ultimately, it questions whether a true 'return' to the physical world is possible when mediated by digital technologies. Practices of Digital Anti-Digitalism: The Return System
Name Term Description Essay
Anna Trevisian Deepnudes Deepnudes are AI-generated, non-consensual nude images created by digitally undressing individuals in photographs.The term combines "deepfake" and "nude", emphasising its role as a deceptive synthetic media practice that fuses physical and digital violations. Deepnudes disproportionately target women, undermining their bodily autonomy by enabling the unauthorised manipulation and distribution of sexualised images.  The Undressed Body in the Age of Deepfakes
Anna Trevisan Digital Bodily Sovereignty Digital bodily sovereignty is a reclaiming of agency over one's digital and physical body. It arises from the recognition that misogynistic digital spaces are fertile ground for environments that systematically undermine women's autonomy and consent, thus reflecting and perpetuating a wider systemic problem rooted in offline realities. As such, digital bodily sovereignty refers to the right to control one's digital representation, ensuring agency and autonomy over how one's image is used online.

Digital bodily sovereignty challenges the erosion of consent in digital spaces, where AI and deepfake technologies enable non-consensual alteration of the body. It argues that violations of digital bodies amount to real-world harm, and calls for feminist resistance to misogynistic digital infrastructures that commodify and exploit personal identity without permission. 		 The Undressed Body in the Age of Deepfakes
Mike 4 Mexico 7
PART of the Critical Fashion Practices MA programme, 
at Artez University of the Arts.