Dear Annie,
Your email had me reach for a copy of Woolf's A Room of Ones Own (I
still have to read Three Guineas).
I hadn't read either and they have revived in me that whole set of
uneases about attention to women's voice and process (and so yes that
would include code) and the place (or lack of it) in our culture. It is
nested in questions of class too. The idea that has particularly struck
me is that inequities (with less opportunities, freedoms, access,
encouragement (this is a big one), expectations) place both external
contstraints on what someone might achieve but also causes a bitterness
that can limits the scopes and freedoms of imagination to develop and
express.
I hope to be attending the FLOSSIE conference in May (see below)and had
planned to talk about some of the artworks that we curated into our
online collection, Collaboration and Freedom, The World of Free and Open
Source Art
http://p2pfoundation.net/World_of_Free_and_Open_Source_Art
and wonder if you would be willing to have a short off-list conversation
to help me think further about why women seem to have so little presence
in this area of work. If we make progress we could re-share here and I
will include it in my presentation: )
Best things
Ruth
ps. other fem@le formats: olia lialina, shulea cheang, olga goranova
(runme), tamiko thiel,
CfP: FLOSSIE 2012, 25/26 May at QMUL, East London, UK
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Flossie is an independent network of women practitioners that has its
roots in social innovation movements as well as arts, technology and
academia. Whether you code, tinker or want to explore alternatives to
'big-tech' corporations, all women are welcome.
The first day will mix micro-talks with birds of a feather sessions
about the work we do. On the second day there will be more structured
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new to FLOSS to make contact and skillshare.
On 18/03/2012 17:10, Annie Abrahams wrote:
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] <mailto:[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@t didn'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]
<mailto:[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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