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

Sessions Overview
Assesment & Deliverables 

Session 6: 

online as resistance, online as ecology 


28/11/2024 
Addressing the importance of gaps, glitches and in-betweens as spaces of possibility within the online realm, we focus on practitioners who inhabit the 'cracks' to create space for alternative engagement. Rather than seeking infinite growth, we consider the value of small, single serving spaces and explore resistance practices that push back against the mainstream digital landscape. We examine parallel concepts such as the poetic web, counter-collectives and dark forest theory, to uncover the unique aesthetics and values within these spaces and consider how they might intersect with critical fashion practices.  

Please read: 


Schwulst, L. (2020) My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?. The Creative Independent.  
via: https://thecreativeindependent.com/essays/laurel-schwulst-my-website-is-a-shifting-house-next-to-a-river-of-knowledge-what-could-yours-be/

Smith, A.W. (2009). Queer Servers and Feral Webs. 
via:https://mirror.xyz/austinwadesmith.eth/wrBCeIWNsXbseQiLBj5jR_bkMFZ03nNYs4rg0lU8X2s?curius=1294

Quicho, A. (2023) Everyone Is a Girl Online. 
via: https://www.wired.com/story/girls-online-culture/

Ceccarelli, M. (2024) Internet’s Dark Forests: Subcultural Memories and Vernaculars of a Layered Imaginary.  p.1-5


Think about:
   
  • What ‘in-between’ spaces does your practice inhabit?
  • What does the ecology of your practice look like?


10/12/2024 [!!] 
 

Please share a draft of your essay by 10/12/2024 no later than 12.00, in which you have defined your 3 concepts.