Online Fashion Systems,  2024/2025 Syllabus
part of MA Critical Fashion Practices, ArtEZ

Sessions Overview
Assesment & Deliverables 

Session 1: 

online fashion systems & digital literacy 


05/11/2024 : 11.00/16.00
Examining fashion in today's digital landscape, exploring the different paths that exist between digital fashion, online fashion and fashion technology. We will reflect on what it means to be 'online' and explore how to critically engage with digital spaces in order to exercise digital agency and consider the concept of 'freedom' within digital spaces. We'll look at how the fashion industry and individual practitioners have adapted to online environments and unpack different approaches to 'using' the online realm - whether as a tool, approach, connector or material - as a prompt to think about different ways in which 'the digital' can function within creative practice.
Please read: 


Lorusso, S. (2021) The User Condition: Computer Agency and Behaviour.  
via: https://theusercondition.computer/ 

McQuillan, V. K., & Hansen, K. S. (2020) Introduction: Rethinking Fashion Spaces.
In Fashion Spaces: A Theoretical View (pp. 12-27).  

Fedora, A. (2022) Our Digital Selves. Modem Works 
via: https://modemworks.com/research/our-digital-selves/

De Miranda, C.F. (2019) The Fashion System’s Algorithmic gaze: de-mystifying algorithms’ propagandistic core & its influence on the consumers’ digital agency.  
via: http://algorithmicgaze.online/   *not mandatory!


Think about:
   
  • What does being online mean for your practice?  What does it look like?
  • How do you engage with fashion online? Bring two examples to class.