Digital Aesthetics and Identities: Cyberspace as a Device of Visibility and New Media as an Agent Reconfiguring Sensibility.

Abstract

This work addresses the emergence of Digital Aesthetics and Identities by examining cyberspace as a device of visibility that reconfigures sensible experience. It is argued that the World Wide Web (WWW) functions as a Foucauldian heterotopia, a hybrid and ubiquitous space that transforms the subject's relationship with material reality and time. Operating under the logic of total connectivity, this digital environment generates a profound existential anxiety (inquietud existencial), channeled into a personal and aesthetic religiosity that seeks meaning outside traditional institutions (Fraijó, Panikkar). Consequently, New Media consolidates itself as the semiotic agent that gives form to this crisis. By performing the rematerialization of data and fostering the material/virtual question (where the essence of being resides), digital art becomes the active manifestation of a new search for spirituality. It is concluded that digital aesthetics reflect a continuous process of resignification of being in the era of data.