Claudia Rafael investigates how "digitalism forms new aesthetics" related to nature, art and popular culture. She advocates an emancipatory use of digital tools like AR that can transcend prevailing social norms on beauty through offering alternative possibilities of (self)imagination to everyone – not only for the virtual but ultimately in the physical world.

Claudia Rafael (*1982) is a freelance digital artist and Art Director living in Berlin. Her work focuses on issues of technology, extended and mixed realities.

Authors website:

claudiarafael.com; Instagram: @_claudiarafael

Keywords:

#technoexpressive, #hyperindividualization, #selfie, #augmentedreality, #physicalbeauty, #digitalbeauty

Beauty in techno-expressive times — extended (posthuman) beauty and bodies | by Claudia Rafael

Mixed Reality Editorial — Future influences
Claudia Rafael together with Lorena Maza
Face filter: esmay
by Claudia Rafael and Moritz Tontsch in collaboration with Esmay Wagemans
Photo: Felicity Ingram
Sci-fi Artist: Esmay Wagemans

Mixed Reality Editorial — Future influences
Claudia Rafael together with Lorena Maza
Photo: Felicity Ingram
Sci-fi Artist: Esmay Wagemans

Mixed Reality Editorial — Future influences
Claudia Rafael together with Lorena Maza
Photo: Felicity Ingram
Sci-fi Artist: Esmay Wagemans

Photo: Hendrik Schneider
Face Filter: lynskiii
by Claudia Rafael und Moritz Tontsch in collaboration with LYNSKI

Face Filter: lynskiii
by Claudia Rafael und Moritz Tontsch in collaboration with LYNSKI

Self portrait Claudia Rafael
Face filters: “VR ART PRIZE” by Claudia Rafael and Johannes Bissantz
“lynskiii” by Claudia Rafael und Moritz Tontsch in collaboration with LYNSKI

Face filter: Hydra and the Child
by Claudia Rafael and Johannes Bissantz in collaboration with Agf HYDRA