Fashion and technology as a platform for poetic expressions: fashion, body and technologies discourses in the contemporanity

A presente pesquisa trata de uma frente, que parece surgir na moda e que une moda, arte e tecnologia. Sao expressoes poeticas que revelam aspectos culturais da epoca atual por meio da roupa. O principal proposito da pesquisa e identificar o discurso inserido nessas expressoes vanguardistas e, a partir desse ponto, tracar relacoes com teorias do contemporaneo; tambem, reconhecer se ha um discurso da moda, ja que a forma de expressao tem como suporte a roupa; ainda, ressaltar o papel da tecnologia ao ampliar as possibilidades criativas na performance das roupas e observar a representacao do corpo humano nesse contexto. Ao avaliar quatro trabalhos selecionados sob essas perspectivas, pode-se observar a influencia da tecnologia e da virtualidade em mudancas de visao de mundo do homem contemporaneo aberto as novas possibilidades que transformarao sua relacao com o meio ambiente, seus habitos, suas crencas, sua aparencia, sua propria nocao de identidade e de realidade. Nesse contexto, a moda assume importante papel por ser um veiculo suscetivel as mudancas e que contribui ao permitir que o homem contemporaneo apresente-se para o mundo da forma como este gostaria de ser visto. Nas obras artisticas que tem a roupa como suporte fica claro, sobretudo, o poder da moda em representar um corpo imaginadoThis piece of research analyzes a new field that seems to emerge from fashion that joins fashion, art and technology. This new area involves poetic expressions that reveal current cultural aspects by means of clothing. The main purpose of this investigation is to identify the discourse in these avant- garde expressions and, from this point, to trace relations with the contemporary theory; recognize whether there is a discourse of fashion, since the form of expression has garments as support; highlight the role of technology in expanding creative possibilities on the performance of garments and observe the representation of the human body in this context. When evaluating the four works selected, under these perspectives, it can be observed the influence of technology and virtuality on changes of the contemporary mans worldview, who is open to new possibilities that will change his relation to the environment, to his habits, to his beliefs, to his looks, to his own notion of identity and reality. In this context, fashion takes an important role for being a vehicle susceptible to changes and for contributing to enable the contemporary man to show himself to the world in the way he wanted to be seen. In the works of art that take garments as support, it is clear, above all, the power of fashion in representing an imagined bod