Embodied Engagement: Expanded Sensibility and Aesthetic Experience in Hybrid Art
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https://doi.org/10.24310/umatica.2025.v8i8.21745Keywords:
hybrid art, perception, body, embodied aesthetics, technologyAbstract
This article explores how contemporary hybrid arts reconfigure aesthetic experience through disordered attention, a decentering of hegemonic vision, and the active involvement of the body. From a transdisciplinary perspective that brings together aesthetics, philosophy, queer theory, science, and posthumanism, it argues that these practices destabilize disciplinary, sensory, and epistemic hierarchies. Drawing on the work of Judith Butler, Walter Benjamin, Claire Bishop, Karen Barad, and N. Katherine Hayles, it examines how attention, perception, and subjectivity are shaped by visual, technological, and affective regimes that colonize imagination and desire. In contrast, hybrid arts emerge as zones where the repressed reappears: non-normative knowledge, dissident bodies, and impure materialities. Far from passive contemplation, these practices activate an embodied, opaque, and relational sensitivity capable of resisting the capitalist capture of attention and imagining new ways of being. The critical force of hybrid arts lies precisely in their ability to unsettle, overflow, and reprogram meaning. In this context, the body becomes a living and political interface where perception, affect, and knowledge intertwine in an expanded experience of the world.
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