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Why make a zine on digital bodies?

"We are all digital bodies now."

As technology continues to mediate human connection, desire, and selfhood, online dating platforms have become both playgrounds and battlegrounds for intimacy.

Algorithms don’t just match people; they filter, rank, and curate attraction, creating a datafied version of desirability. Swiping left or right isn’t just an action—it’s a performance of preference, influenced by algorithmic bias, social conditioning, and the invisible logic of digital platforms.

How does online dating shape our expectations of attraction and intimacy?

Do dating apps reinforce existing social biases, or do they create new ones?

How do we curate and perform desirability in virtual spaces?

Taking inspiration from:

Donna Haraway’s "Cyborg Manifesto" → The digital body as a hybrid of self-construction and external surveillance.

Sherry Turkle’s studies on online identity → The internet as a space where we become, curate, and fragment ourselves.

Cultural analysis of dating apps → How desirability is ranked, optimized, and gamified through technology.

Digital Bodies does not seek to romanticize or condemn online dating; rather, it explores it as a space of contradictions—where connection, deception, self-expression, and algorithmic control coexist.































Signal - Catfishing AI on Dating Apps?
1.  Dating apps are now being emdiated by AI bots, a new form of catfishing? or a signal for our future intimacies?

Refer here, and here.

Signal  -  Bumble  AI Assistant?

2. Bumble co-founder suggesting an AI Concierge that would date other people’s AI concierge so you don’t have to talk to anyone and everyone.

Refer here.