Embodied experience is a fundamental concept for understanding culture as cognitive construction (communication, learning, and identity). Culture structures the sensory experience in specific ways so that we give sense, worth, and feel according with relational spaces (Bennett & Castiglioni, 2004). In current information time enclosed by all technological shifts, and by the logic of a fully “networked society” this raises the question of the construction of our cultural tech identities, and embodied computer-generated experience, concerning the extension of “physical movement” through “electronic communications”. How conscious are we of the process? How perceptional are we of its inscription in our bodies? Integrating tech (embodied) cultural identity means dealing with the dynamics of this process involving the mobile connectivity (and disconnection), innovatively across a variety of cyber-devices and integrated places. It involves the opening of our space of perception towards a “sensory inscribed body” mirrored on different “narratives generated from electronic scans making it our own experience” (Pirani, 2013:39). Grounding between mobility and immobility, it requires examining the interdependencies and changes in “physical movement” and in “electronic communications”, with the increasing focus on the “social sensorium”(ibid.). The aim of this session is to evaluate how people connect and built new forms of identification, and embodiment,within the expanding of physical experiences, and individual (and collective) sense of time, in this “movement-space”.The session holds this theme incorporating networked mobile experiences into one’s praxis of living, comprising bodily interactions mediated by technological networks, applications, and devices.

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embodiment, sensory experience, cultural identity, perception