> From: Melinda Rackham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Subject: www.ggg.cc - games/gender/girls > > Join -empyre- in December (http://www.subtle.net/empyre) for our final 02 > session featuring cyber chicks Julianne Pierce and Mary Flanagan, both of > whom have investigated the game genres in relation to issues of media, > gender and power. Currently through their individual artistic, textual, > production and critical interventions, Flanagan and Pierce are players in > the construction of theory and culture of our shared online networks. > > --->Julianne Pierce, artist, new media producer and co-founder of > pioneering Australian cyberfeminist group VNS Matrix and current > Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), will > discuss shifts in the cyberfeminist movement since its inception in > the early 1990's. Has cyberfeminism emerged as an empowering 'tool' > for engagement with technology, or has it become a factionalised > theoretical movement with little practical outcome? She will also > look at new media art within this context and more generally take a > look at the current concerns and issues of new media artists. > > ANAT http://www.anat.org.au > VNS Matrix http://www.aec.at/www-ars/matrix.html > > --> Media practitioner and theorist Mary Flanagan investigates the > intersection of art, technology, and gender study through critical writing, > artwork, and > activism. She is also the creator of "The Adventures of Josie True," the > first web-based adventure game for girls. Mary has recently show in All Star > Data Mappers at Artspace, Sydney and in the Whitney Biennial,and edited, > with Austin Booth, "_reload: rethinking women + cyberculture" which views > cyberculture as a social experiment with an as-yet-unfulfilled potential to > create new identities, relationships, and cultures. > > Mary Flanagan http://www.maryflanagan.com/ > reload: rethinking women + cyberculture > http://www.maryflanagan.com/reload.htm > ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] archive: http://www.mediascot.org/ambit info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
