Fighting technological alienation. Performing media as a sustainable practice of human-machine symbiosis

This paper seeks to explore the dynamics of hybridization of the mechanical technological universe with the organic universe of the human body, recognizing an increasingly vague margin between the two fields. Considering the risks of alienation that the technological age is producing on humanity and its ability to relate to the environment in which it lives, the text elaborates the need for a restructuring of the relationship between humans and the technological world. An attempt will therefore be made to reveal a different approach to the technological device. This is intended to be interpreted not as a tool for virtualizing reality, but rather as an interface to be acted upon through bodies, a filter that amplifies physical reality by revealing its more difficult-to-perceive sides. An approach to multimedia therefore that rehabilitates the role of physical places in their relationship with technological innovations, making them spaces of actions, movements, and experiences of bodies. Through the experiences of Urban Experience and Teatro Mobile, the text aims to highlight how the relationship with multimedia can bring human beings closer to the lived space, which becomes again the stage, augmented, of their existences.