Hi to Netbehaviourists & a warm welcome to new arrivals :-) OK - so today is Ada Lovelace Day, and suggestions from people for 'women who have inspired you in your own practice' have already been rolling in. "Sharing inspirations with our friendly community of artists, academics, writers, code geeks, curators, independent thinkers, activists and net mutualists."
A big thank you to those who have already taken part, if you have that you wish to share please do. On Friday we will post an updated version of all contributions thus far, including suggestions in one mail for all to view... It will end on the Mon 30th, and put on the front of www.furtherfield.org for all the world to see. Wishing everyone well. marc p.s. I have pasted the original info about it all below, just in case :-) -----------------------------> In support of Ada Lovelace Day we are inviting all women who work in media arts and net art to join the NetBehaviour email list for a week between 23rd and 30th March. http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour We would like to know about your work and that of other women who have inspired you in your own practice. So please come and squat the NetBehaviour list for a week (of course we hope you'll stick around for longer:) and share your inspirations with our friendly community of artists, academics, writers, code geeks, curators, independent thinkers, activists and net mutualists. Posts are welcome in any format and frequency. The following is offered as an example. ==================== MY NAME: Ruth Catlow URL: http://www.furtherfield.org/display_user.php?ID=14 INSPIRED BY: 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. Auriea 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/ ============================== At the end of the week we will collate all of the posts in the thread and feature them on Furtherfield.org. See you on Netbehaviour : )) With all best wishes from Ruth and the Furtherfield team http://www.furtherfield.org ========================== Ada Lovelace Day -bringing women in technology to the fore http://findingada.com/blog/2009/01/05/ada-lovelace-day/ sign a pledge to blog about inspirational women in tech on 24th March. NetBehaviour is the Furtherfield.org email discussion listJoin NetBehaviour for a week between 23rd and 30th March (of course we hope you will stick around: ) http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
