FROM CAMERA AS PART OF THE BODY, TO CAMERA – THE BODY PART

The digital world is where 3.4 billion people communicate via images through social media. On average, each one of us spends 6 hours day in front a screen. rapidly appearing and disappearing under our scrolling fingers shape perception, time body movements, brain structure, responses complex neurological way. camera enables the formation identity, development, aesthetic value, cultural participation. Without this image, isolated, unable to speak. Moreover, without storage we save images, are exempt from personal history, narratives, memory. Once integrated into smartphone, produced an extra organ. With Orion visual cortical prosthesis medical study that implants eyes restore vision, face emotional surveillance project VibeCheck, BeAnotherLab software, swooping virtual reality bodies, article follows socio-philosophical technological shifts history photography object production, their definition, interaction, final merge between object. Through reference theoretical works Roland Barthes, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Karen Barad Tim Ingold, how have been producing us. transforms separate room or device prosthetic/inherent part body, which not fully functional. Today, person phone marginalized handicapped. deficit having image-generating tool turns out be sensual deprivation, limitation discrepancy identity.