Marcas de intimidade sobre o corpo ou monitoramento do corpo através da computação vestível?

Abstract

Can wearable body monitoring devices manage intimacy data? We believe that the data about the body, captured through wearable computing, and associated with other forms of memory production, such as smartphones, social networks, among others, are a new form of expression, extension and construction of the subjectivities of individuals. Our hypothesis is that such records can both function as a form of monitoring and surveillance and produce poetic memory that subverts our perceptions about the body, or about the bodies. To investigate this question we worked with the idea that wearable technical objects are capable of creating intimate diaries that would make us question the way algorithms extract information about the human body, how they record, store and present this data to us. Anchored in the concepts and actions related to self-surveillance, lifelog building, digital traces and counter-surveillance tactics we seek to verify how metadata, used in a disruptive way in the sharing of intimacy marks, can subvert the notion of an efficient and self-controlled body.