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.

   
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CURATORIAL TOOLS

13/11/2025 
11:00 - 15:00
We turn to curation as a method for shaping and presenting online practice. Participants will explore how alternative platforms and digital tools can function as vehicles for narrative, aesthetic, and political expression. The session considers how collections, archives, and curated assemblages can communicate intention, identity, and values, while reflecting critically on the platforms themselves. Participants will begin assembling and experimenting with their own curated content, learning to navigate and leverage digital infrastructures in alignment with personal and conceptual goals.


key ideas

  • Online curation as aesthetic and political practice.
  • Translating personal practice into networked forms.
  • Narrative as a curatorial device.
  • Aligning platform values with artistic intent.

please prepare     Bring two (existing) curations—one digital and one physical—that you’re drawn to, admire, or find conceptually intriguing. Annotate each collection, exploring its relevance, influence, and conceptual thread. Reflect on how the two connect or contrast, and consider what their curatorial decisions reveal about approach, intention, and audience
please read

    additional media: 
    • The Creative Independent, Molly Soda on making art from your online history —
    • Johan Jansson, The Online Forum as a Digital Space of Curation — emphasizes intermediary, filtering, and identity in digital curation.
    • Ursula K Leguin, the Carrier Theory bag of Fiction — On gathering as a tool.  
    • Mindy Seu, On Gathering — on collecting, sharing, and creating the Cyberfeminism Index
    • Kendal Beynon, Stretch to Zoom — on reformulating online avenues and re-naming digital territories as subcultural meeting spaces.

     
    PART of the Critical Fashion Practices MA programme at Artez University of the Arts.