Post-digital textile aesthetics: a critical reflection on the process of digital re-materialisation of artefacts

The post-digital perspective of contemporaneity is characterized by two fundamental lines of thought that intersect and complement each other by assuming, on the one hand, the inevitability of the omnipresence of digital computer technology in all aspects of life, that is, its concrete ubiquity; and, on the other hand, by noting the emergence of new materiality or rematerialisation in the practices of digital creation in art and culture, where tangible physical materials assume an equal role to the digital while expanding and repositioning it in an aesthetic that is vested with its own distinctive characteristics. In this paper, we present a critical reflection on processes of digital rematerialisation of a set of three textile art artefacts, seeking to convoke for this purpose the theories of the post-digital while proposing and discussing a defining instantiation of post-digital textile aesthetics.