How tech-inspired SFX is revealing our anxieties about a

2 May

AI boyfriends, iPad babies, and Sabrina Carpenter Fortnite skins: everywhere you look, the boundaries between technology and the human body are fraying. As we plug in, log on, and upload, our physical selves feel increasingly secondary to the digital versions we present online. This fear of bodily displacement is now being expressed in SFX, a medium long used to dramatise anxieties through the contortions of the human form. But today, it reflects a near-future reality: the absorption of technology into the human body, and the creation of a cybernetic future. In the latest runways we are seeing the emergence of tech-based SFX make-up entangled with the human form. Throughout designer Rohan Mirza’s runways, we see gaming accolades and technology embedded into...

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25 Apr

5 more body art and SFX artists you need

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5 more body art and SFX artists you need

As our identities become increasingly enmeshed with digital worlds, it’s easy to feel split between who we are online and who we are IRL. It’s a reckoning that’s led us to view our real-life selves as avatars we can upgrade, customise and deck out into new forms. One medium that has been expressing those ideas is the world of SFX and body art. Once more firmly rooted in film and TV, we’re now seeing SFX mutate its way onto runway shows, fashion campaigns and music videos, where distorted, contorting and varied takes on the human form are becoming increasingly popular. Some of this work channels anxiety: a fear of technology infiltrating the body, of the human form itself becoming obsolete. iPhones...

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1 Dec

Aerosol Couture: This surreal SFX exhibition uses the body

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Aerosol Couture: This surreal SFX exhibition uses the body

For 26-year-old airbrush artist Mab, art has always been political. Using the body as her canvas, the SFX artist paints the skin with vivid, surreal designs that are meant to serve as both a commentary on and a reclamation of the hypersexualisation of Black women’s bodies. From working with the Clermont twins to creating custom looks at fashion week, the young creative’s career has been taking off as of late, despite the fact that airbrushing was, as she previously told Dazed, pushed on to her originally. Her current mastery of the medium, however, was on full display in New York on Saturday (November 1), at her latest live exhibit, Aerosol Couture. Held at 66 Greene, a concept store, music venue and...

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5 Aug