Hello Karen, I (of course) agree with what you say about Lara Lee's text on Sadie Plant's 'Zeros + Ones, Digital Women + The New Technoculture'...
My most fave, fave, fave book by Sadie Plant is 'The most radical gesture - The Situationist International in a postmodern age '. I have reread the book many times and it is a great resource on the history of Dada, Situationism, Fluxus "..Situationist theory can be made to perform in the big top of critical theory to great effect: it can expose the complacency and superficiality of much contemporary thought, jump through the same intellectual hoops and stand up to academic scrutiny. But unlike those theories to which it can be compared, it is merely playing in this role. It demands practical realisation, and is a theory which was only made possible by the acts of rebellion, subversion, and negation which foreshadowed it and continue to assert the discontent and disrespect inspired by the economic, social, and discursive relations which define contemporary capitalism. Nevertheless, the Situationist International has been ignored by its detractors and protected by those attracted to it for too long..." http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t732861336~db=all chat later marc Hi Marc, Thank you for your response to my own propositions for Ada Lovelace Day. Even though, as you mention the external links to the Laura Lee article about Sadie Plant's publication 'Zeros + Ones, Digital Women + The New Technoculture', are dead now. I found the text that Laura wrote extremely interesting as valuable context, especially these words "Viewing the world as a system of all-inclusive interconnectivity, "what were once isolated words, numbers, music, shapes, smells, tactile textures, architectures (Plant, 12)" are now threaded together by their material essences. "The yarn is neither metaphorical nor literal, but quite simply material." Plant suggests that the world becomes one immersive reality in which all things relate in a structure that does not denote one thing as less important than another. Perceiving the world as a network, each part can dismantle the whole structure, like a removing a string from a woven blanket. When we surf the web, we transgress through multiple texts and perspectives, digital images and architectures that form our cohesiveness of the cyberworld as a whole. Any missing link can change the whole structure." I think that Sadie is an important individual for media art culture generally, and she just so happens to be female, although a decent one and also beautiful writer. Also, I am glad that you brought up Francesca da Rimini's other work with VNS Matrix. They started in 1991, wow - time has moved on... I do have a question! Is it OK if there are repeats, if people choose the same women will they still be seen in the final document? karen x_- Da Femme-Rulez ;-) /~~~\ | | | | __\___/__ ,' `, | | | | | ,' `, | ,' | | `, | | | | `\,' `,/' | | `-----------' | | | | | | | | | | | | |__|__| Hi Karen, Thanks for sharing your Ada Lovelace Day suggestions and I'm looking forward to reading all the other selections still to come by others on this list. The Laura Lee text is fascinating in its own right, unfortunately many of the links on her review page referencing different aspects about Ada Lovelace do not work anymore, which is a shame. It was a pleasure to re-explore Francesca da Rimini's work again. I especially remember VNS Matrix which Francesca da Rimini was part of, founded in 1991. The other members were Josephine Starrs, Julianne Pierce and Virginia Barratt. On wikipedia it mentions that they were the first to use the term 'cyberfeminism', not sure if it is true or if such a claim really matters, but VNS Matrix did some excellent work and not all of it can be seen on-line anymore. Here is a biography - http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/artist/vns-matrix/biography/ Dollspace, which Da Rimini was also part of is still a great net art piece. I love its edgyness - http://dollyoko.thing.net//title.htm wishing you well. marc > Hello everyone, > > I must say, I am quite excited about this opportunity to promote those women who have inspired me, changed the world in their own special ways 'bringing women in technology to the fore' is a great idea. Also, it could not of come at a better time, in light of all the nasty things happening in the world. > > Anyway - I am sticking to Ruth's example/format, it seems easier. Especially if the furtherfield crew are going to compile all of this stuff. > > MY NAME: Karen Blissett. > > Sadie Plant - I love her work, especially 'Zeros + Ones, Digital Women + The New Technoculture'. "Sadie Plant introduces Ada Lovelace as a woman whose awareness of peripheries, of indices, headings, prefaces, etc. gave her a new way of perceiving reality. In her footnoted, non-fictional texts, these peripheral details were crucial in contextualizing the texts in historical and social reality." Laura Lee. Laura's review on the book http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/body/lgl1.html > > Francesca da Rimini - I have always enjoyed Francesca's net art work as well as her other works/collaborations to do with networked culture. Francesca da Rimini, aka GashGirl, (Adelaide/Rome) has been working in the field of new media since 1984 as an arts manager, curator, corporate geisha girl, cyberfeminist, puppet mistress and ghost. One of the original members of VNS Matrix, the Australian cyberfeminism group formed in 1991. Worked in New York on a project in collaboration with Michael Grimm, snafu and Ricardo Dominguez, los dias y las noches del muertos, and with Ricardo Dominguez on hauntings. Squandered hours investigating the artistic and erotic potential of negotiated email relationships, online virtual communities and web-based narrative architectures that have been reverse engineered into multiple immaterialities. http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors/dariminibio.html > > Ruth Catlow - I know, but she's cool. And has been incredible in supporting other emerging artists as well as maintaining in still making interesting and challenging artwork with technology. One project springs to mind - 'Rethinking Wargames', a participative net art project instigated by Ruth Catlow of which calls for 'pawns to join forces to defend world peace'. It uses the game of chess to find strategies that challenge existing power structures and their concomitant war machineries. http://www.low-fi.org.uk/rethinkingwargames/ > > Hope Kurtz (1959–2004) - Such a talent . I remember seeing Hope perform in Amsterdam in 95 or 96, at the Next Five Minutes Conference - I was mesmerized by her articulation and excellent performance presence, and imaginitive intelligence. Hope "worked behind the scenes of the CAE collective by contributing to the conceptual basis for their work. It is through her brilliant editing that their work articulates challenging concepts to a multifarious audience—many of whom might not otherwise come into contact with such radical thought. The Ensemble collectively authored several books including Electronic Civil Disobedience and other unpopular Ideas..." http://www.thebrooklynrail.org/arts/july04/hopekurtz.html > The Critical Art Ensemble site - http://www.critical-art.net/ > > That's it for now. will be back with more. > > karen > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Ruth Catlow <ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org> wrote: > > Hi Netbehaviourists, > > In support of Ada Lovelace Day (highlighted by Marc and discussed a > couple of weeks back) we are inviting all women who work in media arts > and net art, who are not already subscribed, to join the NetBehaviour > email list for a week between 23rd and 30th March. > > We are asking them to squat the list for a week (of course we hope > they'll stick around for longer:) and tell us about their work and that > of other women who have inspired them in their own practice. > > This is not a separatist excercise; we want to hear from all of you so > don't hold back. > > Posts are welcome in any length, format and frequency and we are not > worrying about repeats or gaps. 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. > > With all best wishes from > > Ruth and the Furtherfield crew > > ========================== > > *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. > > Furtherfield.org http://furtherfield.org > > _______________________________________________ > 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
