Abstract
Micro-Nude is an ongoing research-creation project that investigates the politics of scale, representation, and visibility in digital culture—particularly as they unfold on social media platforms. In an ecosystem where bodies are constantly uploaded, tagged, compressed, and repurposed for both human and algorithmic consumption, Micro-Nude proposes an alternative visual strategy. Situated at the intersection of photography, cyberfeminism, and AI, Micro-Nude reimagines the nude not as an object of voyeuristic capture but as a resistant, encrypted form-small, abstracted, and unreadable to surveillance systems. In response to the rise of deepfake technologies and the commodification of bodies online, the project challenges the infrastructures that demand transparency, circulation, and recognizability. Through scaled-down imagery, digital watermarking, and conceptual photography, Micro-Nude disrupts normative expectations of the body and its legibility in virtual space. It offers a speculative visual terrain where nudity becomes a site of refusal, control, and play, rather than exposure. Micro-Nude also operates as a theoretical framework that engages with questions of embodiment, digital labor, and feminist resistance in the age of image saturation. Drawing from media theory, surveillance studies, and feminist thought, the project situates itself within broader debates on autonomy, opacity, and technological power. As both artwork and inquiry, Micro-Nude is designed to provoke reflection on how we see and are seen, and to ask what it means to reclaim agency over the image of one’s own body in an era of platformed visibility. It evolves in tension with the very technologies it critiques.
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Social Media,data,cyberfeminist,size,body,resistance,online presence,representation
