From purevisibilist theories to computational thinking. Interpreting, representing, designing and producing sensoriality on textile surfaces.

Following the theoretical and critical lines of 20th century purovisibilism, the relationships between sensorial processes and mental processes are highlighted to develop digital devices that can promote a new way of interpreting, representing, enhancing and producing sensorial perceptions on textile surfaces in the digital era. In a process from the definition of the concept of materiality to its infographic representation, finds evidence the idea defined by Andrea Pinotti as transmediality, which investigates "the processes that enact different forms of transposition or migration, from a medium to another, of images, figures, motifs, compositional procedures or forms of vision". (Pinotti, 2016, p.160) Using silk as a case study, we designed an application in which algorithms virtually represent sensorial perceptions obtained from the interaction of various material fields. Subsequently, combining silk artisan practices and 4.0 technologies through the use of the Arduino microcontroller, we made a device for the production and customization of silk yarn, able to prefigure the sensorial gradients of the fabrics .