-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [faces-l] FW: MEDIA RELEASE: International movement started 1991 in Adelaide celebrates 25 years Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 23:00:07 +0000 From: Josephine Starrs <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> From: Julianne Pierce <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wednesday, 10 August 2016 10:34 am To: bucketmedia <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, doll yoko <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, Josephine Starrs <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: MEDIA RELEASE: International movement started 1991 in Adelaide celebrates 25 years FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9 August 2016 INTERNET PIONEERS VNS MATRIX CELEBRATE 25 YEARS OF THEIR CYBERFEMINIST MANIFESTO The computer art group VNS Matrix are acknowledged as internet pioneers. The group of four artists formed in Adelaide in 1991 and created ’A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century’ with cyberfeminism going on to become an international movement. Before the world wide web, these visionary artists were creating artworks that investigated the role and representation of women in technology. Influenced by cyberpunk, video games and French feminist theory, VNS Matrix playfully imagined a virtual world populated by female cyborgs, super heroines and malevolent multinational corporations. Their first major commissioned work was a 6metre x 3metre billboard of the ‘Cyberfeminist Manifesto’ that was mounted on the exterior of Tin Sheds Gallery, City Road Sydney for a month during 1991. Before the days of social media, this image was photographed and sent around the world, while the manifesto was printed and distributed across Australia and internationally. The manifesto was translated by fans of VNS Matrix into Russian, Finnish, Japanese, German, Italian, Spanish and Euskera (Basque). The group created the large scale installation ALL NEW GEN that included a computer game, light boxes, sound works, video and performance. The game and exhibition ALL NEW GEN has been shown in Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Darwin, Helsinki, Linz, Bilbao, Cannes, Amsterdam, St Petersburg, New York, Chicago and Minneapolis. The work of VNS Matrix is now taught in universities and is still exhibited around the world and published in journals and textbooks. Two members of the group, FRANCESCA DA RIMINI and JULIANNE PIERCE, are based in Adelaide with VIRGINIA BARRATT based in northern NSW and JOSEPHINE STARRS in Sydney, VNS Matrix are re-forming for a one-off performance of ‘A Tender Hex for the Anthropocene' at the ‘Femflix’ exhibition, 6.30pm Wednesday 10th August at Sydney College of the Arts. A compilation of VNS Matrix video and sound work is included in the exhibition that runs until 3rd September. ‘Femflix’ captures the unique voices of 90s feminist screen culture and is curated by Jacqueline Milner, Jane Schneider and Deborah Szapiro. For further details contact Julianne Pierce [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> mob: 0419 260 390 FEMLIX Exhibition Hours Thursday 11 August – Saturday 3 September Monday – Friday 11am-5pm Saturdays 11am-4pm Where<http://theuniversityofsydneysydneycollegeofthearts.createsend1.com/t/j-l-kiiujid-l-yd/> SCA Galleries Sydney College of the Arts The University of Sydney Kirkbride Way, off Park Drive, Lilyfield, NSW (enter opposite Cecily Street) _______________________________________________ faces-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.servus.at/mailman/listinfo/faces-l http://faces-l.net
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