NXS #1: Cyber-Sensuality

NXS – a project by Amsterdam's Goys & Birls – is an experimental printed publication, where each contributor comments and reflects on a previous contribution. NXS explores "the self" in the age of digital technology, with the first issue focusing on Cyber-sensuality. NXS aims to explore the emotional and sensual side of hardware, software and algorithms, normally assessed by functionality, aesthetics and ethics. With regards to cyber sensuality, we have developed an intimate relationship with the technological tools we use. Screens have become the surfaces of our feelings, connecting and isolating us at the same time. We experience reality through machines. The symbiosis between human and machine has catalyzed new understandings of gender, normality, nature and being human. We have jumped from the touch of human skin to VR erotic experiences, and can now satisfy any of fetishes or fantasies online. These behaviors redefine how human beings can be portrayed through the machine as a