MY NAME: Sarah Sohm
INSPIRED BY: Marjane Satrapi- An Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novelist, illustrator,Academy Award nominated animated film director, and children's book author. Her stories and illustrations not only create a distinct feminine voice but wholly human one.** <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjane_Satrapi> *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjane_Satrapi*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjane_Satrapi> The women of webcomics- Women such as Kate Beaton ( http://harkavagrant.com/archive.php), Sarah Ellerton ( http://www.seraph-inn.com/), Meredith Gran ( http://www.octopuspie.com/) and Dylan Meconis (http://www.lutherlevy.com/) are artistic, geeky, and modern women. They combine creativity, art, the internet and humor together in a way that allows for their works to be available for all on the computer. > ----------------------- > > > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:49 PM, marc garrett < > marc.garr...@furtherfield.org> wrote: > >> (Marc, I hope you will forgive me mailing you as a way of adding to your >> blog >> - we are all a little in shock at losing Leigh and I hope this short >> tribute >> will make others aware of her contribution) >> >> MY NAME: Ann Light >> >> URL: http://boundaryobjects.tumblr.com/ >> >> INSPIRED BY >> >> S. Leigh Star >> Leigh made a great contribution to our understanding of how categories >> work, >> what they leave out, how they contribute to creating identities... the >> technology of 'the system'. She was much more than that - a creative >> thinker >> whose rich metaphoric presentations gave depth and breadth to a range of >> information technology and scientific issues, whose gentle voice belied >> strong commitments and whose prose is - and will succeed her as - a plea >> for >> humanity and a protest against all types of reductionism, through careful >> and intelligent analysis. Our research community is today reeling from the >> shock of learning that she has just died. It seems apt to commemorate her >> with a nomination on Ada Lovelace Day. Her ability to express her >> sensibility as a woman was one of her many strengths... and she became >> well >> known for her investigation into the 'invisible' work that makes the world >> run, so often supplied by women. I worked alongside her for a couple of >> days >> in 2007 and it was inspiring. My blog is named for her. >> >> http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/article/star.php >> >> Ann >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: netbehaviour-boun...@netbehaviour.org >> [mailto:netbehaviour-boun...@netbehaviour.org] On Behalf Of marc garrett >> Sent: 24 March 2010 18:57 >> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity >> Subject: [NetBehaviour] Ada Lovelace Day, Again! 2010. >> >> Ada Lovelace Day, Again! >> >> Hi Netbehaviourists - It is March 24th, Ada Lovelace Day, Again! >> >> Origianlly conceived by and promoted by Suw Charman-Anderson >> (http://suw.org.uk/) as a way of "bringing women in technology to the >> fore". It succeded in motivating nearly 2000 people to publish a blog >> post about a woman in technology whom they admired.. >> >> This blog is now open again to anyone to contribute - >> http://blog.findingada.com/ >> >> We are asking for the Netbehaviour community to get involved again. >> >> Last year we made a successful contribution to their project, sharing >> our own contexts from our own community to the project. >> >> http://www.furtherfield.org/ada_lovelace.php >> >> There is a limited time period of 50 hours, and it's ticking away... >> >> How to proceed: >> >> What we'll do is merge everyone's new suggestions to an updated version >> of last year's edition. Then add it to furtherfield, like we would for a >> review, as well as link it to the Finding Ada Blog, next other people's >> thousands of other contributions out there... >> >> How to contribute: >> >> It's easy - you add your own suggestions to a thread/list added by the >> last contributor on Netbehaviour. >> >> Example of format: >> >> MY NAME: Ruth Catlow >> >> URL: http://www.furtherfield.org/display_user.php?ID=14 >> >> INSPIRED BY >> >> Ele Carpenter >> 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. >> http://www.elecarpenter.org.uk/ >> >> 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 >> 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. >> http://www.valuesatplay.org/ >> >> Exactly or similar as above. >> >> >> looking forward to seeing who collaborates. Add you suggestions RE: this >> post... >> >> wishing all well. >> >> marc >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > >
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