Fourteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society

Abstract

Textile arts are some of the oldest cultural technologies of humanity, found in both the public and private space of life. Artistic and cultural imaginary, predominantly feminine, has found an ideal place of expression as the social and cultural praxis tradition has a millenary individuality and continuity. The poetics and narrative of textile arts have developed alongside technologies, over time however, they have lost their cultural value in the favor of practical use, in which their fibrous structure and network-like system were exploited. The context of the fourth technological revolution, dominated by the digital society, the internet of object, 3D Printing, biotechnologies, nanotechnologies and emerging technologies, is also becoming a challenge for the cultural and artistic dimension of the world of objects which, in its turn, involves other types if systemic relationships. Emotional design and arts-science have become increasingly attractive research directions in several interdisciplinary art programs based on the numerous novelties of science and technology, as well as on researching metaphor or visual semiotics. The paper presents artistic experiments in the creative textile design of a group of master students in textile arts.