Artificial Intelligence, Art and Technologies: the Alexis Mabille Fashion Show at the Tension Between Creation, Style and New Cognitive Apprehensions of Perception
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ai algorithms, style, cognition, hybrid systems, artistic processesAbstract
The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) as a technological resource embedded in everyday life redefines our presence in the world and our expectations of the other. Drawing on a comprehensive perspective that affirms the interdependence between subject and object, this study examines how AI algorithms resignify style and bodily expression, problematising choices, tastes, and belongings, as well as new configurations of knowledge production and modes of apprehension of reality. Structured around three interrelated movements, the paper first investigates the ways in which algorithms shape choices, taste patterns, behaviours, and the agentive forms of knowledge. It then analyses the impact of hybrid systems — such as biological neurons in vitro combined with artificial neural networks — on creative processes and the authorship of knowledge. Finally, it draws on Alexis Mabille's spring-summer 2026 collection, presented at Paris Fashion Week, to illustrate the intersections between wearable technologies, artistic expressions, and emerging forms of sensibility, cognition, and perception. The theoretical framework is grounded in Russell and Norvig (2013), McLuhan (1969), Mendonça (2023), Khajehnejad (2024), Arielli (2025), among others.
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