Media Art and Wearable Technology: Re-thinking Media and Art in Post-mediatic Forms
Media Art and Wearable Technology: Re-thinking Media and Art in Post-mediatic Forms

Summary/Abstract: All media is once ‘New’ Media and then there is ‘Old’ Media. After that, there is ‘Post’ Media that people want to talk about the most. Today, the nature of Media is heavily computer– based digital technology where computer hardware and software experience give us the most digital novelty. When Marshall McLuhan stated, “Clothing, [is] an extension of the skin…” (Understanding Media, 129), the concept of media and technologies was already out-running over imagination. Further into McLuhan’s ‘Extensions of Man’, today the media is a huge part of the extensions of our bodies and psyches. In the centuries before technology changed our perspective on media as a conceptual object; thus, forcing us to accept the technology and question ‘How to write traditions and histories in the form of Art in post-mediatic turn?’ For this statement, first and foremost, to talk about ‘What is a Post-mediatic form?’, we need to consider the death of media in an archaeological sense before discussing any forms in Media Theory.

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