● Human ideals of beauty expressed through fashion inevitably influence technology design. Today, communication technologies that reside near the body also embody taste and fashion. Indeed, fashion becomes central as the technology moves from being portable to being wearable. Personal instruments must be not only modern but beautiful. Communication technology and fashion aesthetics have recently come together to address this brief - fashion designers and telecommunications operators are increasingly combining their overall vision of aesthetics. Various research laboratories are developing clothing that will integrate communication, therapeutic and cosmetic technologies. (from Mediating the Human Body - Technology, Communication, and Fashion. edited by L. Fortunati, J.E. Katz and R.Riccini, 2003)
This book has given me a lot of throught around the perception of beauty, opened my vision of aesthetics combinated with technology. Boundaries are wider, and human body was always feeling the need to overcome them in order to be free. This subject needs definately more research.
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