Hormone couture: Biopolitics, aesthetics, and technology
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Author list: Pataranutaporn P., Ngamkajornwiwat P., Unprasert T., Umnajsasithorn W., Luksanayeam S., Loha-Unchit S., La-O-Vorakia C., Sakulkueakulsuk B., Ngamarunchot B., Assawaboonyalert C., Pataranutaporn P., Chatwiriyachai S., Surareungchai W., Jain S.
Publication year: 2017
Volume number: Part F130534
Start page: 221
End page: 226
Number of pages: 6
ISBN: 9781450351881
ISSN: 1550-4816
Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)
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Abstract
Based on the context of higher life expectancy and lower pregnancy rate, ageing society is unavoidable. Technological response is necessary. Hormone Couture exhibition presents two wearable technologies that aesthetically respond to women's reproductive hormone and body temperature changes. The designs address how technology creates a biopolitical issues whether the wearable technology empowers women by giving her access to biological information, or creates gendered oppression by having a technology that monitors, controls, and influences sexual behavior on the body. Both of these arguments cannot be separated as they altogether exist at the same time as two sides of the same coin. This contradictory relationship between technological advancement and gender politics was materialized into the work aiming to criticize and speculate the future of wearable technology, and how it reinforces dynamics of gender tension in society. ฉ 2017 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).
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Biosensor, Fashion, Fertility, Hormone, Speculative Design, Wearable Technology
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