Mediating the human body in AI creation. Communication, the body, and AI

The beginning of this text can be situated in 2001 when a conference organized in Milan by a network of universities from Europe, the United States, and Canada resulted in a publication titled Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication, and Fashion (2003). The focus of that foundational event was the research for an interdisciplinary approach that is necessary in order to face the complex and emerging phenomenon of the mediation of the human body throughout technology. Today, two decades after that conference, a techno-logical approach towards the human body has continued to mark our daily life, and three main fields of interaction can be recognized: 1) medicine, 2) fashion, and 3) Information and Communications Technology (ICT), especially mobile technologies, with general increasing attention to robotics.