Hi Kathryn, Thanks for your post. It got me thinking about how important the visibility of other women's work is to me in my daily doings. There is then something about a lot of this works' basis in networks that makes me feel much more connected to it than I might be to work of other women artists. in the meantime I have been thinking about...
Annie Abrahams - for one of my favourite early netart works, Separation http://bram.org/separation - and for her networked performances including the multiple series with panoplie http://aabrahams.wordpress.com Daphne Dragona - curatorial work with networked consciousness in the field of games art a - especially the amazing Homo Ludens Ludens at Laboral http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/05/homo-ludens-ludens-quick-conve.php and her work with Personal Cinema Aurea Harvey - for her part with Entropy8Zuper in early intimate networked performances http://entropy8zuper.org/wirefire and for Endless Forest, Tale of Tales's bucolic social screensaver http://tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest Mary Flanagan - for her energetic explorations as academic, educator, artist and programmer at the intersection of games, art and feminism and exploring collaborative approaches to thinking about values in http://www.valuesatplay.org/ Aileen Derieg - her writing about life in the Freie Szene in Linz on the Furtherfield blog http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=blog/8 and translations of writing at the intersection of art, technolgy and social change. The De Geuzen crew - Renee Turner, Femke Snelting and Riek Sijbring - especially for their project Female Icons http://www.geuzen.org/female_icons/ Helen Varley Jamieson - for Upstage cyberformance platform http://upstage.org.nz/blog/ Maja Kalogera - for some great digital artworks, curating exhibitions and facilitating Upgrade in Zagreb http://www.wowm.org/site_v7/index.php Kate Southworth- her thinking on feminism/networks and her ongoing artistic collaboration with Patrick Simon with Glorius Ninth http://www.gloriousninth.net Ele Carpenter - http://www.elecarpenter.org.uk/ for tech inspired and facilitated participation with Open Source Embroidery, her curatorial project exploring artists practice that explores the relationship between programming for embroidery and computing. Kate Rich - her imaginative, sideways and wonderfully parasitical project, Feral Trade, for trading goods along social networks. She has constructed a live shipping database, The Feral Trade Courier, "for a freight network running outside commercial systems. The database offers dedicated tracking of feral trade products in circulation, archives every shipment and generates freight documents on the fly." http://www.feraltrade.org/ Kale Brandon -For her part (with Kate Rich) in Cube Cola, the first "open source soft drink" http://sparror.cubecinema.com/cube/cola and (with Heath Bunting) in Border Xing Jess Loseby - her net art http://www.rssgallery.com/ and various contributary projects especially Angry Women - Disturb the Peace http://www.rssgallery.com/2006/12/01/angry-women-disturbthepeace/ Lucy Eyers - her work on the first Node.London season of media art http://nodel.org and the low-fi netart locator http://www.low-fi.org.uk and commissions Liza Haskel - early work in collaborative media art practices involving critical engagement in the politics of technology http://mediaartprojects.org.uk Francesca da Rimini/Gashgirl - early dirty cyberfeminism and current exploratory work on "small media, soft ecologies" http://www.sysx.org/gashgirl/ Hannah Higgins - her book Fluxus Experience - not strictly technological but so closely connected in my mind to a more connected and distributed art experience Lucy Lippard -for dematerialization of the art object, for offering precursory context for net art but mainly for articulating the tensions for women artists looking to work with parity in a patriarchal, market driven art world Susy Gablick - her book Conversations before the end of time (not overtly technological -but somehow contextual) Sadie Plant - her books 'Zeros and Ones' and though not strictly technological, her book 'The Most Radical Gesture' about Situationism seems relevant too Finally I just have to slip Bjork in there for all of her songs which are full of blips and bleeps and glitches and technical experimentations and for her video with Chris Cunningham - All is Full of Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjAoBKagWQA Of course there are lots of others and I am resisting the temptation to add in a list of honorary women (yes men!) Finally I am excited by the prospect of attending Eclectic Tech Carnival this year in September http://eclectictechcarnival.org/node/864 for a "gathering of women interested in technology". It seems like a great thing. Perhaps you should come too:) love and peace Ruth -----Original Message----- From: Katharine Norman <kathar...@stayconscious.com> Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Ada Lovelace Day. Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:40:50 +0000 Hello Marc, Karen, Well, I tend to lurk....but now I think I have to write: I will be signing up - to write about: Pauline Oliveros, composer and writer who has, through her work been a role model I, for one, needed, as I studied and now teach as a composer/writer in the area of experimental 'computer music'. I keep a piece she wrote about her university teaching experience near me, where I can draw on it for strength.Perhaps a brief extract might be of interest - this passage is a little out of context, but I think she certainly nails some experiences others will know only too well Her advice hails from her experience of US academia.. from the late 1960s on. 'A problem: Although there are pockets and waves of enlightenment in some institutions women continue to be marginalized in music and technology in institutions. They are rarely given teaching positions or assistantships in technology and music composition. A solution: In order to restore the balance of power between all beings, women have to acknowledge their secret feelings, devise coping strategies to deal with men of power and privilege, bond with and support one another in dedication to evoking the most positive and creative personal and professional behavior from themselves and others in every way that is possible. Creativity at all levels of society in every possible action is the only solution to the evolution of consciousness free of the limitations of fear' Pauline Oliveros, 'A Former UCSD Professor Speaks Up' (first posted online to cec-discuss - 1996 I think) For any woman, like myself, working in technologically based areas, there are I think particular challenges - sadly, still - to expect. After six years away from academia, I am back both to directing an electronic music studio and to teach in the area of experimental digital music (at City University London). And I come back find only one woman in the sizeable postgraduate community, and few applying or taking undergraduate electives. I understand from concerned male and female professonal colleagues that the situation is no less dire elsewhere. My heart aches to change this, and my personal 'solution' has been to be incremental and piecemeal, to engender local shifts of attitude, or attempts at such - but I feel this is failure of a kind. As Marc so ruefully and, I think, accurately, discerns the 'laziness' of - in this case - academic structures is hard (but not impossible, I dream...and hope ) to shake out of its complacency. But to my mind the roots lie deeper ( and are more pervasive and embedded) than whether individuals (male or female) 'bother' or not.. I would be very interested to know what others have encountered in various contexts and their advice. - and my computer hard drive's name....well, Ada, of course ;-) best, Katharine on 22/02/2009 12:44 PM marc garrett wrote: > Hi Karen, > > Yes, I will definitely sign the pledge :-) > > Here's a snippet in respect of where I am coming from, which I wrote in > the Crisis interview with the Open Source Art crew: > > "Issues such as war, religion, the climate change and the financial > crisis are all linked. To define any of them as coming from a singular > root cause would be too easy, yet I do feel there is a deep rooted > problem that needs serious observation. It is part of the crisis and a > puzzle, hard-wired into humanity’s psyche, it exists everywhere. All of > our cultures through history have failed to actively incorporate as > equal, a feminine perspective, usually leaving women out of the decision > making process as much as possible, unless they abide within the rules > of a masculine orientated framework. Even though many women have managed > to become part of life’s institutional infrastructures, they still have > to behave according to patriarchal demands. This is because a > fundamental male code of conduct has already been set in place as > default long before any women have had a decent chance to challenge > these unbalanced conditions." http://www.interviewingthecrisis.org/?p=27 > > I feel that we need more evolutionary approaches which are informed by > and relate more to human related contexts, so to transcend the typical > and lazy, male dominated, monotheist imposed structures (religious or > institutional). Like yourself maybe? > > marc > > > Hello Marc, > Thank you for being one of the few males bothering about this - will you > be place a pledge? > > Karen... > > Pledge "AdaLovelaceDay" > > > "I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in > technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do the same." > > — Suw Charman-Anderson (contact) > > Deadline to sign up by: 24th March 2009 > 1,341 people have signed up (341 over target) > > More details > Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention > to women excelling in technology. Women's contributions often go > unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely > recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines. > Whatever she does, whether she is a sysadmin or a tech entrepreneur, a > programmer or a designer, developing software or hardware, a tech > journalist or a tech consultant, we want to celebrate her achievements. > > It doesn't matter how new or old your blog is, what gender you are, what > language you blog in, or what you normally blog about - everyone is > invited to take part. All you need to do is sign up to this pledge and > then publish your blog post any time on Tuesday 24th March 2009. If > you're going to be away that day, feel free to write your post in > advance and set your blogging system to publish it that day. > > We will gather as many of the posts together on the day as we can, and > we'll let you know exactly how we're going to do that nearer the time. > For ongoing updates about Ada Lovelace day, please follow us on Twitter, > join our mailing list or see our blog. > > http://findingada.com/ > http://twitter.com/FindingAda > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/findingada > > Who was Ada? > Ada Lovelace was one of the world's first computer programmers, and one > of the first people to see computers as more than just a machine for > doing sums. She wrote programmes for Charles Babbage's Analytical > Engine, a general-purpose computing machine, despite the fact that it > was never built. She also wrote the very first description of a computer > and of software. > > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:14 PM, marc garrett > <marc.garr...@furtherfield.org> wrote: > > Ada Lovelace Day. > > Bringing women in technology to the fore. > > I've mainly stayed away from the discussion of gender issues in > technology. I didn't think that I had any real expertise to share. But > over the last six months, after many conversations, it has become clear > that many of my female friends in tech really do feel disempowered. They > feel invisible, lacking in confidence, and unsure how to compete for > attention with the men around them. > > Then I see the stupid puerile misogynistic manner with which some of the > more powerful voices in the tech community - some of them repeat > offenders - treat women, and it makes me very cross indeed. The > objectification of women is bad enough when it's done by the media, but > when it's done by a conference organiser or tech commentator or famous > tech publication, what message does it send? Nothing but "You will never > be taken seriously, but we might take notice of you if you're hot." > > But what to do? Well, let's pull back from the anger a little, and start > to look instead at why it might be that women feel less secure in their > abilities than most men, and what might help change that. Undoubtedly > it's a complex issue, but recent research may shed some light: > Psychologist Penelope Lockwood discovered that women need to see female > role models more than men need to see male ones. > > more... > http://findingada.com/blog/2009/01/05/ada-lovelace-day/ > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour. > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
