Hi everyone,
Here's my two cents worth :-) Some have been mentioned by others.....
xx Renee
MY NAME: Renee Turner
ALSO COLLABORATES: with Riek Sijbring and Femke Snelting under the
name of De Geuzen a foundation for multi-visual research
URLs: http://www.fudgethefacts.com/ , http://www.geuzen.org/ ,
http://www.geuzen.org/female_icons/
INSPIRED OR IMPRESSED BY (AND THESE ARE JUST A FEW):
Donna Haraway: Author of A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and
Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century, she has a way of
embedding and embodying technologies within history, science, bodies
and everyday life.
Online lecture here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yxHIKmMI70
A Cyborg Manifesto:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html
Laurie Anderson, jack of all trades, hacker, pioneer and techno-
shaman. In 1984, I saw her United States Live tour, and was humbled to
witness it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SirOxIeuNDE
Steina Vasulka: An early pioneer of the electronic arts, Steina, often
in collaboration with her partner Woody Vasulka, pushed the aesthetics
of technology and video to its outer limits. In 1974, she taught at
the Center for Media Study at the State University of New York, where
she was the only female faculty member at that time. Through the years
her work has played with the limits of technology while simultaneously
embracing those restraints for their visual qualities. One particular
example of this kind of approach is Machine Vision.
An interview can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd9jaqkY6Dw
Joan Jonas: She is a funky storyteller who has the capacity to weave
together the rinky dink, the poetic and the technological. A snippet
of Vertical Roll is here: http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/vertical-roll/video/1/
Avital Ronell, the author of The Telephone Book: Technology,
Schizophrenia, Electric Speech, is a mental broad surfer par
excellence. Not only has she theorized about technology, but also
stupidity, addiction and literature. She has a way of making wildly
rogue connections.
There is no link of her discussing The Telephone Book, but here's one
where she discusses stupidity:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ksoUF0jjY
Lisa Haskell, organized different projects around technology and
digital culture. I haven't seen her in years, but those early
projects were inspiring and brought many people together to think and
produce in different ways.
Pauline van Mourik Broekman: she co-founded with Simon Worthington
Mute Magazine.
Kate Rich, the Bureau of Inverse Technology: Many years ago De
Geuzen, asked her to come to the Netherlands and lecture at a
symposium called Situating Technologies. She gave an inspiring talk
on the Bureau's activities. The suicide box is still brilliant: http://www.bureauit.org/sbox/#video
Sandy Stone: She is Associate Professor and Founding Director of the
Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory. I admire her ability
to forge new ways of thinking about gender, machines, the erotic,
science and frontier bodies. I saw her perform several years ago at V2
in Rotterdam, and she is an amazing storyteller. Last but not least,
she has a great sense of humor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLkqFy6J14w&feature=related
Josephine Bosma, through her essays and interviews, she's made
valuable contributions to media art history and debate.
I could keep going and going with more women.... but I better stop
here for the moment :-)
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