Corporal Imaginaries. Gender Perspective Applied to Digital Media Literacy in Early Childhood.

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The methodological basis of YOYOMIOMIO1
, a video installation intended for
display in museums, is fundamentally based on the research of two authors. On the
one hand, Marshall McLuhan, by coining the expression global village, assured that
technologies would be considered extensions of our bodies and senses. This
prediction, launched during the 1960s, according to which mass media are observed
as prolongations of our nervous system, has actually been surpassed; our bodies now
interact with all kinds of electronic elements. On the other hand, Haraway (1991)
provides feminism with a powerful understanding of the new possibilities for the
human being of today: the postmodern subject by means of the cyborg. In this
understanding, the cyborg era is in an advanced state, with the deconstruction of our
own bodies to create new models that interact with the electronic elements implanted
in them.The main objective of YOYOMIOMIO, which will be described throughout
this chapter, has been to translate into artistic language McLuhan s exploration in the
visual and acoustic space, as well as Haraway s assertions about the sex/gender
system. In addition, the authors have developed a research methodology that
combines electronic art with the creation of corporal imaginaries during the early
childhood years.