Thanks a lot Ruth for this list.
Some names might not be accurate, because the curators statement states
clearly that the show is about formats in the context of the Internet, but
others would have been.
What then is the difference between the works included and the works made
by some of the ladies of your list?
If I dare give it a try, The works in the show all are formal, they deal
with very concrete and well defined formats that relate to clear weldefined
structures and that give clear and controllable results. Quit a lot of
works from your list deal with performance or human relations, and
networks. This results in more fuzzy, fragile and sometimes even messy
results.
I passed the list on to Christophe Bruno the curator of Form@ts.
Yours
Annie
Ps Quick translation of the curators statement for the show Form@ts:
The exhibition "Form@ts" focuses on the emergence, the obsolescence and the
import-export of artistic concepts and art forms, in the context of the
Internet. It features art projects that are each representative of the
issue of format, not as a fixed form, but rather as a representation of a
hybridization of a friction between several forms, often imported from other
fields of representation and knowledge.
Formats are subject to phenomena such as hybridization, in many cases, their
names result from the composition of different media forms and contexts from
which they come like "webring", "live coding". Sometimes that hybridization is
more complex and rich and the name of the resulting format is no longer as
clear. Other times, the work will not be associated with a format as such,
but a phenomenon of erosion, or a "bug" that appears structurally in a
given context, in short, a side effect ("Side Effect ").
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 6:18 PM, ruth catlow
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Super happy to see Rob's Balloon Dog getting seen as part of this
> exhibition : )
>
> Annie...
> Well perhaps Format (technical) stands for Form (artistic)
> I'm not sure I could (or would want to) find and define a "female" format
> but v. disheartened by what is either an unfortunate oversight or just a
> pure evil exclusion of work by women.
>
> There are many many many examples - these are just a tiny sliver of women
> who could have contributed a format to the project. I hesitate to make a
> list because of all the brilliant things that will then be excluded but
> just to show that this isn't just hot air.
>
> De Geuzen (Renee Turner, Riek Sijbring and Femke Snelting)- Female Icons
> and Anxiety Monitor
> Mary Flanagan - many many many, including Domestic - personal history told
> around the flaming walls of a gamespace
> Helen Varley Jamieson and Paula Crutchlow - Make-Shift - participatory
> (audiences of two physical spaces) linked by artists' dramaturgy
> Upstage - Avatar Body Collision - cyberformance software platform and
> performance programme
> Annie Abrahams - The Big Kiss, Huit Clos, Angry Women +many many-
> networked performance
> Liz Sterry - Kay's Blog, real-world reconstruction of social life online
> Ele Carpenter - Embroidered Digital Commons - stitching together of Craft
> and Code cultures of knowledge sharing and politics.
> Alison Craighead
> Amy Alexander
> Kate Armstrong
> Kate Rich
> Francesca fa Rimini
> Coco Fusco
> Natalie Jeremijenko
> Laurie Anderson
> Mez Breeze
> Kelli Dipple
> Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie
>
> :)
> R
>
> On 17/03/2012 10:14, Annie Abrahams wrote:
>
>
> of course I am glad, happy for Rob to be in this show
>
> I posted because I was thinking, am thinking about gender and power,
> influence, attention, - feel quit confused about it, but noticed form@tdidn't
> include "female" formats and made me think about if these exist
> yes they must, they do
> *Can we find good examples*?
>
> And why they are omitted?
> does form@t mean control?
> is the show a formalistic exposure?
>
> I know that the initiator of the online art presentations in Jeu de Paume
> is a women - she invited Christophe Bruno - an artist I know and
> appreciate - she is having a lot of difficulties defending online art.
>
> Does the institution need a strong male presence to "try to be convincing"?
> Is it a sign of times not changing? Are we still at the Three Guineas time
> of Virginia Woolf
>
> yours
> Annie
> *Can we find good examples of fem@le Form@ts?*
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Rob Myers <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 16/03/12 18:32, Annie Abrahams wrote:
>> > no ladies in the show at all can't they format?
>>
>> Some are in the "Magic Ring" project, although none are mentioned on the
>> front page, no. :-/
>>
>> - Rob.
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