No. 29 (2025): OpenASRI. Miscelaneous Journal

The end of the year invites us to reflect on the role of art and digital humanities within a context shaped by technological acceleration, cultural transformation, and the need to rethink our ways of relating to image, body, and memory. This new miscellaneous issue of ASRI. Art and Society is conceived as an open space for interdisciplinary dialogue, where artistic practices, critical thought, and theoretical explorations converge to interrogate the boundaries between the material and the virtual, the human and the posthuman, the individual and the collective.

Posthumanist narrative emerges as a critical response to the fusion of organism and machine, questioning the centrality of the subject and proposing imaginaries where the biological and the technological intertwine in hybrid architectures and discourses that explore the contemporary condition through existential absurdism and scientific determinism. At the same time, the coexistence of traditional techniques and digital tools redefines creative processes, generating hybrid methodologies that not only expand formal possibilities but also open debates on authorship, sustainability, and memory in artistic production.

In this context, art becomes a space for dissent and critical reinterpretation of identities. Queer aesthetics strain the boundaries between gender, desire, and representation, proposing affective cartographies that make historically marginalised corporealities visible and challenge normative narratives through performativity and the politics of the image. These practices do not develop in isolation: hyperconnectivity and the role of social networks as instruments of collective action transform the way cultural critique is exercised, consolidating platforms that function as spaces of resistance against institutional censorship and as stages for the construction of alternative discourses.

With these perspectives, ASRI reaffirms its commitment to critical research and interdisciplinary creation, offering an open territory to think about how art and technology shape our ways of life, our memories, and our possible futures. We invite the reader to explore these pages as a space for reflection and experimentation within the digital society.

Editors: Miguel Ángel Rego Robles and Andrea de la Rubia Gómez-Morán