NXS #6: Phygital Fashioning

"The notions of certification, authenticity, ownership and content are as muddy as ever in the digital realm." —Wassim Z. Alsindi in conversation with Charlie Robin Jones, from "Notes on Phygitality"Issue #6 of NXS—Phygital Fashioning—explores the representation, consumption and transmission of digital fashion as one of the key mediators of the collective and individual public construction of the Self. How do these new ways of dressing communicate our identity and how we want others to perceive us? What complications do the digitization and democratization of this form of self-expression bring forth? By using digital fashion as a lens, the contributors in this issue contemplate what their findings might say about larger changes within an increasingly global and digital society. The sixth issue includes contributions from Wassim Z. Alsindi; Ruben Baart; Shumon Basar; Bora; Pak Chiu; Selin Davasse; Ben Dawson; Elizaveta Federmesser; Elke Gaugele; Inte Gloerich; Maisa Imamović; Charlie R