Re: [NetBehaviour] Ada Lovelace Day, Again! 2010.
(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
Re: [NetBehaviour] Ada Lovelace Day, Again! 2010.
MY NAME: Sarah Sohm INSPIRED BY: Marjane Satrapi- An Iranian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-born Frenchhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France contemporary graphic novelist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_novel, illustrator, Academy Awardhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80th_Academy_Awards -nominated animated http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation film directorhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_director, and children's book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_literature author. Her stories and illustrations not only create a distinct feminine voice but wholly human one. 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 Granhttp://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. Sarah 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...
Re: [NetBehaviour] Ada Lovelace Day, Again! 2010.
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
Re: [NetBehaviour] ada lovelace day
hi all, from netartlatino database: http://netart.org.uy/latino/ Project from uruguayan artist Ariel Seoane Scherezada Lovelace Project (v 1.2) - (octubre 2000) http://www.palaciodurazno.com/slp/ best! _brian -- .endOfMessage \|/ ¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯¯`·¸ | | __+__netart.org.uy__ - Original Message - ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] ada lovelace day
hi Marc here are links Delia Derbyshire http://www.delia-derbyshire.org/ Yoko Ono http://www.a-i-u.net/biblio3.html Annie Anxiety http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFdoPhytGqU Maja Ratkje http://www.last.fm/music/Maja+Ratkje Katherine Norman http://www.last.fm/music/Katharine+Norman bw patrick On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:43 PM, marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote: Hi Patrick, We all decided that even if there are double ups, it reflects people's own contexts as well.. If you do suggest these names could you add links as references so people can visit them? Annie Anxiety, ah yes - part of the Crass gang... marc hello Anybody mention Delia Derbyshire, Yoko Ono, Annie Anxiety, the brilliant Maja Ratkje and ..(on this list!) the impressively pioneering (used to use as The example of new work in lectures, her London cd, Katherine Norman. bw patrick simons ___ 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 ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] ada lovelace day
Before the project closes off, I would like to add Annie Abrahams to my list Annie Abrahams: Dutch artist residing in France who studied both biology and fine art. Her work explores the impact of technologies in critical, poetic and quirky ways. It also points to the many inherent contradictions of mediated connectivity. Next to her work, she has created numerous nodes of exchange and production within the net art community. xx Renee On Mar 26, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Katharine Norman wrote: wow, thanks Patrick, I'm touched! My London CD (or most of the tracks) are up on sonus.ca and/or last.fm I think - sonus.ca is a wonderful resource for exotic digital sound and music adventures. I'm not sure how I forgot my friend Hildi Westerkamp, and am glad to see Alex mentioned her. Just to say that Westerkamp is visiting London, UK, soon - for anyone in the area - info below. Not so much netart but a real pioneer of computer-mediated sound and listening work. Katharine Hildegard Westerkamp visit: 19th April *World Soundscape Project London Soundwalk Revisit 19 April. 10.30am - mid-afternoon. Meeting point outside Friends House on Euston Road at 10.30am. Soundwalk of Kings Cross and Regent's Park, led by members of the UK and Ireland Soundscape Community and Hildegard Westerkamp. This is a revisit of a soundwalk carried out during Easter of 1975 by the World Soundscape Project, as documented in the European Sound Diary 1977. You MUST register for this event by the 3rd April. To register please email j.dre...@gold.ac.uk (John Drever) This event is co-sponsored by the Noise Futures Network and Sound Practice Research. *Art and Soundscapes: Hildegard Westerkamp 20 April 2009, 14:00 - 17:00 Small Hall, Richard Hoggart Building , Goldsmiths College, London Composer and acoustic ecologist Hildegard Westerkamp will present and discuss her compositional work related to soundscape studies. From 11am on the 20 April there will be a number of sound installations on Goldsmiths campus to experience. More details to follow. No need to register. This event is co-sponsored by the Noise Futures Network and Sound Practice Research. For updates see: http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/spr/ Dr John Levack Drever Lecturer in Composition Head of Sound Practice Research Goldsmiths, University of London http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/spr/ http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/music/staff/drever.php on 26/03/2009 14:40 patrick simons wrote: hello Anybody mention Delia Derbyshire, Yoko Ono, Annie Anxiety, the brilliant Maja Ratkje and ..(on this list!) the impressively pioneering (used to use as The example of new work in lectures, her London cd, Katherine Norman. bw patrick simons ___ 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 ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] ada lovelace day
There's still plenty of time. The call doesn't close till 12 midnight on Monday. : ) Ruth From: Renee Turner geu...@xs4all.nl Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] ada lovelace day Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:25:30 +0100 Before the project closes off, I would like to add Annie Abrahams to my list Annie Abrahams: Dutch artist residing in France who studied both biology and fine art. Her work explores the impact of technologies in critical, poetic and quirky ways. It also points to the many inherent contradictions of mediated connectivity. Next to her work, she has created numerous nodes of exchange and production within the net art community. xx Renee On Mar 26, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Katharine Norman wrote: wow, thanks Patrick, I'm touched! My London CD (or most of the tracks) are up on sonus.ca and/or last.fm I think - sonus.ca is a wonderful resource for exotic digital sound and music adventures. I'm not sure how I forgot my friend Hildi Westerkamp, and am glad to see Alex mentioned her. Just to say that Westerkamp is visiting London, UK, soon - for anyone in the area - info below. Not so much netart but a real pioneer of computer-mediated sound and listening work. Katharine Hildegard Westerkamp visit: 19th April *World Soundscape Project London Soundwalk Revisit 19 April. 10.30am - mid-afternoon. Meeting point outside Friends House on Euston Road at 10.30am. Soundwalk of Kings Cross and Regent's Park, led by members of the UK and Ireland Soundscape Community and Hildegard Westerkamp. This is a revisit of a soundwalk carried out during Easter of 1975 by the World Soundscape Project, as documented in the European Sound Diary 1977. You MUST register for this event by the 3rd April. To register please email j.dre...@gold.ac.uk (John Drever) This event is co-sponsored by the Noise Futures Network and Sound Practice Research. *Art and Soundscapes: Hildegard Westerkamp 20 April 2009, 14:00 - 17:00 Small Hall, Richard Hoggart Building , Goldsmiths College, London Composer and acoustic ecologist Hildegard Westerkamp will present and discuss her compositional work related to soundscape studies. From 11am on the 20 April there will be a number of sound installations on Goldsmiths campus to experience. More details to follow. No need to register. This event is co-sponsored by the Noise Futures Network and Sound Practice Research. For updates see: http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/spr/ Dr John Levack Drever Lecturer in Composition Head of Sound Practice Research Goldsmiths, University of London http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/spr/ http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/music/staff/drever.php on 26/03/2009 14:40 patrick simons wrote: hello Anybody mention Delia Derbyshire, Yoko Ono, Annie Anxiety, the brilliant Maja Ratkje and ..(on this list!) the impressively pioneering (used to use as The example of new work in lectures, her London cd, Katherine Norman. bw patrick simons ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [NetBehaviour] ada lovelace day
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Ruth Catlow ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org wrote: There's still plenty of time. The call doesn't close till 12 midnight on Monday. That's a relief, as I missed the actual day due to jet lag. :-) I know some people I'm about to mention have already been covered but my personal list would be: Ada Lovelace (the original hacker), Jasia Reichardt (for Cybernetic Serendipity, The Computer in Art, and after), Tessa Elliot (interactive multimedia artist and influential teacher), Tracey Matthieson (online multi-user VR pioneer), Susan Kare (designed the influential original Macintosh icons) - Rob. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] ada lovelace day
Can I add Kate Southworth, or is that a step too far? Kate Southworth http://www.gloriousninth.net/ Inspirational for me, hugely. bw Patrick On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Ruth Catlow ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org wrote: There's still plenty of time. The call doesn't close till 12 midnight on Monday. That's a relief, as I missed the actual day due to jet lag. :-) I know some people I'm about to mention have already been covered but my personal list would be: Ada Lovelace (the original hacker), Jasia Reichardt (for Cybernetic Serendipity, The Computer in Art, and after), Tessa Elliot (interactive multimedia artist and influential teacher), Tracey Matthieson (online multi-user VR pioneer), Susan Kare (designed the influential original Macintosh icons) - Rob. ___ 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
Re: [NetBehaviour] ada lovelace day
I've been thinking a little about this, but with only a limited awareness of women within art and technology, there's not much I can add. (My awareness of men working with art and technology is only slightly more knowledgable). Certainly Mez has been an influence in some of my writings/list posts, and I love her graphics work (I'd love her to design an alternative set of icons for my game;-). Discovering about Delia Derbyshire and her early work with synthesis for the Doctor Who theme was exciting and inspiring. Two books I found very interesting to read were The Demon Lover - the roots of terrorism by Robin Morgan, and Bosch by Laurinda Dixon. James. On 27/3/2009, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Ruth Catlow ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org wrote: There's still plenty of time. The call doesn't close till 12 midnight on Monday. That's a relief, as I missed the actual day due to jet lag. :-) I know some people I'm about to mention have already been covered but my personal list would be: Ada Lovelace (the original hacker), Jasia Reichardt (for Cybernetic Serendipity, The Computer in Art, and after), Tessa Elliot (interactive multimedia artist and influential teacher), Tracey Matthieson (online multi-user VR pioneer), Susan Kare (designed the influential original Macintosh icons) - Rob. ___ 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
Re: [NetBehaviour] ada lovelace day
Hi Rob, I think in regard to individuals contributing with names already suggested, what would make it even more valid is if a small contextual reason for the suggestion is given - because we all have our own personal reasons why we are influenced by such people. We can all easily add links names, but why are we interested in them? I'm still working on my own list which will be added tomorrow sometime because like many on here life is busy - sheesh, time, time, time! wishing you well. marc On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Ruth Catlow ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org wrote: There's still plenty of time. The call doesn't close till 12 midnight on Monday. That's a relief, as I missed the actual day due to jet lag. :-) I know some people I'm about to mention have already been covered but my personal list would be: Ada Lovelace (the original hacker), Jasia Reichardt (for Cybernetic Serendipity, The Computer in Art, and after), Tessa Elliot (interactive multimedia artist and influential teacher), Tracey Matthieson (online multi-user VR pioneer), Susan Kare (designed the influential original Macintosh icons) - Rob. ___ 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
Re: [NetBehaviour] Ada Lovelace Day, some questions...
Hiya Marc Netbehaviourists,
I may of missed some bits of info about the support of Ada Lovelace Day
project. So if it is not too painful for you to repeat what might have
already been discussed, could I bother you with a couple of questions?
One thing I need to know from you is that, when the furtherfield crew
compile all of the proposals sent in by everyone tomorrow, is whether after
this happens, can subscribers still mail their proposals?
The reason I am asking this is because I still have some that I wish to add,
and a couple of my friends have just recently subscribed and I am not sure
if they will be posting before Friday.
The other thing is - I mailed something to the list yesteday (unrelated to
Ada Lovelace) and for some reason it did not appear. I remember that someone
else had this problem also a couple of days ago. Is there something wrong
with the server at all?
I wanted to say how much I have been enjoying seeing all of the
contributions to Netbehaviour, and I want to thank you and everyone else who
has taken part in doing something as special and important as this. I am
sure this is going to be a great resource for many in the future - it's very
exciting, thanks for making the effort :-)
Karen
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Re: [NetBehaviour] ada lovelace day
wow, thanks Patrick, I'm touched! My London CD (or most of the tracks) are up on sonus.ca and/or last.fm I think - sonus.ca is a wonderful resource for exotic digital sound and music adventures. I'm not sure how I forgot my friend Hildi Westerkamp, and am glad to see Alex mentioned her. Just to say that Westerkamp is visiting London, UK, soon - for anyone in the area - info below. Not so much netart but a real pioneer of computer-mediated sound and listening work. Katharine Hildegard Westerkamp visit: 19th April *World Soundscape Project London Soundwalk Revisit 19 April. 10.30am - mid-afternoon. Meeting point outside Friends House on Euston Road at 10.30am. Soundwalk of Kings Cross and Regent's Park, led by members of the UK and Ireland Soundscape Community and Hildegard Westerkamp. This is a revisit of a soundwalk carried out during Easter of 1975 by the World Soundscape Project, as documented in the European Sound Diary 1977. You MUST register for this event by the 3rd April. To register please email j.dre...@gold.ac.uk (John Drever) This event is co-sponsored by the Noise Futures Network and Sound Practice Research. *Art and Soundscapes: Hildegard Westerkamp 20 April 2009, 14:00 - 17:00 Small Hall, Richard Hoggart Building , Goldsmiths College, London Composer and acoustic ecologist Hildegard Westerkamp will present and discuss her compositional work related to soundscape studies. From 11am on the 20 April there will be a number of sound installations on Goldsmiths campus to experience. More details to follow. No need to register. This event is co-sponsored by the Noise Futures Network and Sound Practice Research. For updates see: http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/spr/ Dr John Levack Drever Lecturer in Composition Head of Sound Practice Research Goldsmiths, University of London http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/spr/ http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/music/staff/drever.php on 26/03/2009 14:40 patrick simons wrote: hello Anybody mention Delia Derbyshire, Yoko Ono, Annie Anxiety, the brilliant Maja Ratkje and ..(on this list!) the impressively pioneering (used to use as The example of new work in lectures, her London cd, Katherine Norman. bw patrick simons ___ 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
Re: [NetBehaviour] Ada Lovelace Day, some questions...
Hello Karen, I may of missed some bits of info about the support of Ada Lovelace Day project. So if it is not too painful for you to repeat what might have already been discussed, could I bother you with a couple of questions? No problem at all :-) One thing I need to know from you is that, when the furtherfield crew compile all of the proposals sent in by everyone tomorrow, is whether after this happens, can subscribers still mail their proposals? Yes - we are collecting everything that has been posted so, tomorrow; and will repost it as a whole/digest to the list. This is so that we can get some idea how many contributions have been made all in one place. Also, we may ask some to add links or extra information to their own suggestions if needed. Anyone can still send in their Ada Lovelace Day contributions after Friday 27th, the last day is Monday 30th. The day after that we will put the document on the front of furtherfield for all the world to view... The other thing is - I mailed something to the list yesteday (unrelated to Ada Lovelace) and for some reason it did not appear. I remember that someone else had this problem also a couple of days ago. Is there something wrong with the server at all? We have had issues on the whole server lately - this is to do with us changing various domain nameservers. There has been a few glitches along the way, so we have reverted everything back to how it was before for now, and will attempt to change things again in the future, sometime. This means that all posts will be able to access the list again, and as normal... I wanted to say how much I have been enjoying seeing all of the contributions to Netbehaviour, and I want to thank you and everyone else who has taken part in doing something as special and important as this. I am sure this is going to be a great resource for many in the future - it's very exciting, thanks for making the effort :-) Much thanks Karen, I also wish to thank everyone for taking part in the project. It means something very positive :-) Wishing you well - oh I love ascii by the way. __ .' `. / \ o/| 8o __ | ``8' /.---. \ | |` || ` ` | `|___\\ ) / _\ ._._.'.'( / | \\ ``--' //|` \\ // `| \\ // |` . \ .d88b. // `| .'.'\\ .d88b. o8Y' .`Y// |` / / \\Y'. .`Y8o oY' . . . //Y8o `| .'.' dY'\\ . . .`Yo dY . .// Yb|` / / dY. \\.. .Yb dY . . . . .// . Yb`| .'.' dY . \\ . . . . Yb oY. . . . // .Yb |` / /oY ..\\ . . . . Yo o8. . . // .. 8b `| =.= .'.'o8 . \\ . . . 8o 8Y .. . .//__Y8___|`_ / / 8P . . \\.. . . Y8 8@/__ 8 .'. ..`.' 8\@)...8 8. . (`-.__`--.__ d8 /. . |.. \ 8 . . . . . . . 8 8b..(@ `--.__`--.__| | 8b.. . . . .d8 Y8 .. . `-._ `--.__|.. @ | Y8 . . . . . . . . . 8Y Yb . . . .`-._ dP | |.| Yb. ... dP Yb. . . . . . `-dP \ . |... / Yb . . . . . . .dP Yo. . .. .oP `--.__`.__|__.' Yo. . . ..oP `8o. . . . .o8'|`8o. . . . .o8' `Y88bd888P' =.= `Y88bod888P' ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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Hi Patrick, We all decided that even if there are double ups, it reflects people's own contexts as well.. If you do suggest these names could you add links as references so people can visit them? Annie Anxiety, ah yes - part of the Crass gang... marc hello Anybody mention Delia Derbyshire, Yoko Ono, Annie Anxiety, the brilliant Maja Ratkje and ..(on this list!) the impressively pioneering (used to use as The example of new work in lectures, her London cd, Katherine Norman. bw patrick simons ___ 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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books 'Zeros and Ones' and though not strictly technological, her book 'The Most Radical Gesture' about Situationism seems relevant too Finally I just have to slip Bjork in there for all of her songs which are full of blips and bleeps and glitches and technical experimentations and for her video with Chris Cunningham - All is Full of Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjAoBKagWQA Of course there are lots of others and I am resisting the temptation to add in a list of honorary women (yes men!) Finally I am excited by the prospect of attending Eclectic Tech Carnival this year in September http://eclectictechcarnival.org/node/864 for a gathering of women interested in technology. It seems like a great thing. Perhaps you should come too:) love and peace Ruth -Original Message- From: Katharine Norman kathar...@stayconscious.com Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Ada Lovelace Day. Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:40:50 + Hello Marc, Karen, Well, I tend to lurkbut now I think I have to write: I will be signing up - to write about: Pauline Oliveros, composer and writer who has, through her work been a role model I, for one, needed, as I studied and now teach as a composer/writer in the area of experimental 'computer music'. I keep a piece she wrote about her university teaching experience near me, where I can draw on it for strength.Perhaps a brief extract might be of interest - this passage is a little out of context, but I think she certainly nails some experiences others will know only too well Her advice hails from her experience of US academia.. from the late 1960s on. 'A problem: Although there are pockets and waves of enlightenment in some institutions women continue to be marginalized in music and technology in institutions. They are rarely given teaching positions or assistantships in technology and music composition. A solution: In order to restore the balance of power between all beings, women have to acknowledge their secret feelings, devise coping strategies to deal with men of power and privilege, bond with and support one another in dedication to evoking the most positive and creative personal and professional behavior from themselves and others in every way that is possible. Creativity at all levels of society in every possible action is the only solution to the evolution of consciousness free of the limitations of fear' Pauline Oliveros, 'A Former UCSD Professor Speaks Up' (first posted online to cec-discuss - 1996 I think) For any woman, like myself, working in technologically based areas, there are I think particular challenges - sadly, still - to expect. After six years away from academia, I am back both to directing an electronic music studio and to teach in the area of experimental digital music (at City University London). And I come back find only one woman in the sizeable postgraduate community, and few applying or taking undergraduate electives. I understand from concerned male and female professonal colleagues that the situation is no less dire elsewhere. My heart aches to change this, and my personal 'solution' has been to be incremental and piecemeal, to engender local shifts of attitude, or attempts at such - but I feel this is failure of a kind. As Marc so ruefully and, I think, accurately, discerns the 'laziness' of - in this case - academic structures is hard (but not impossible, I dream...and hope ) to shake out of its complacency. But to my mind the roots lie deeper ( and are more pervasive and embedded) than whether individuals (male or female) 'bother' or not.. I would be very interested to know what others have encountered in various contexts and their advice. - and my computer hard drive's namewell, Ada, of course ;-) best, Katharine on 22/02/2009 12:44 PM marc garrett wrote: Hi Karen, Yes, I will definitely sign the pledge :-) Here's a snippet in respect of where I am coming from, which I wrote in the Crisis interview with the Open Source Art crew: Issues such as war, religion, the climate change and the financial crisis are all linked. To define any of them as coming from a singular root cause would be too easy, yet I do feel there is a deep rooted problem that needs serious observation. It is part of the crisis and a puzzle, hard-wired into humanity’s psyche, it exists everywhere. All of our cultures through history have failed to actively incorporate as equal, a feminine perspective, usually leaving women out of the decision making process as much as possible, unless they abide within the rules of a masculine orientated framework. Even though many women have managed to become part of life’s institutional infrastructures, they still have
Re: [NetBehaviour] Ada Lovelace Day.
donna kuhn! http://digitalaardvarks.blogspot.com/ m. --- On Sun, 3/1/09, Katharine Norman kathar...@stayconscious.com wrote: From: Katharine Norman kathar...@stayconscious.com Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Ada Lovelace Day. To: ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org, NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Date: Sunday, March 1, 2009, 9:59 AM Hello Ruth, Thank you so much! What a wonderful list, that's an amazingly rich variety of work and I look forward to visiting and finding out more - I shall also point my students at this. Yes, I agree that 'visibility' of the work (or maybe 'hearability' in my field ;-) is so important. Within digital experimental music, and especially within teaching about this area (both inside and outside of the academy, I hasten to add) I still feel that the presence of women practitioners is particularly lacking, and the reasons are complex perhaps ...well, aren't they always - I don't *think* this is just my anecdotal sense, although I have no data on this (some has been collected however, a while back, that indicates this in the UK institutions at least). best, Katharine on 26/02/2009 5:27 AM Ruth Catlow wrote: Hi Kathryn, Thanks for your post. It got me thinking about how important the visibility of other women's work is to me in my daily doings. There is then something about a lot of this works' basis in networks that makes me feel much more connected to it than I might be to work of other women artists. in the meantime I have been thinking about... Annie Abrahams - for one of my favourite early netart works, Separation http://bram.org/separation - and for her networked performances including the multiple series with panoplie http://aabrahams.wordpress.com Daphne Dragona - curatorial work with networked consciousness in the field of games art a - especially the amazing Homo Ludens Ludens at Laboral http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/05/homo-ludens-ludens-quick-conve.php and her work with Personal Cinema Aurea 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 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 in http://www.valuesatplay.org/ Aileen Derieg - her writing about life in the Freie Szene in Linz on the Furtherfield blog http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=blog/8 and translations of writing at the intersection of art, technolgy and social change. The De Geuzen crew - Renee Turner, Femke Snelting and Riek Sijbring - especially for their project Female Icons http://www.geuzen.org/female_icons/ Helen Varley Jamieson - for Upstage cyberformance platform http://upstage.org.nz/blog/ Maja Kalogera - for some great digital artworks, curating exhibitions and facilitating Upgrade in Zagreb http://www.wowm.org/site_v7/index.php Kate Southworth- her thinking on feminism/networks and her ongoing artistic collaboration with Patrick Simon with Glorius Ninth http://www.gloriousninth.net Ele Carpenter - http://www.elecarpenter.org.uk/ 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. Kate Rich - her imaginative, sideways and wonderfully parasitical project, Feral Trade, for trading goods along social networks. She has constructed a live shipping database, The Feral Trade Courier, for a freight network running outside commercial systems. The database offers dedicated tracking of feral trade products in circulation, archives every shipment and generates freight documents on the fly. http://www.feraltrade.org/ Kale Brandon -For her part (with Kate Rich) in Cube Cola, the first open source soft drink http://sparror.cubecinema.com/cube/cola and (with Heath Bunting) in Border Xing Jess Loseby - her net art http://www.rssgallery.com/ and various contributary projects especially Angry Women - Disturb the Peace http://www.rssgallery.com/2006/12/01/angry-women-disturbthepeace/ Lucy Eyers - her work on the first Node.London season of media art http://nodel.org and the low-fi netart locator http://www.low-fi.org.uk and commissions Liza Haskel - early work in collaborative media art practices involving critical engagement in the politics of technology http://mediaartprojects.org.uk Francesca da Rimini/Gashgirl - early dirty cyberfeminism and current exploratory work on small media, soft ecologies http://www.sysx.org
Re: [NetBehaviour] Ada Lovelace Day.
Hi all, I know that this is a bit of sideways approach, but I'm into music and wanted to suggest to the list, some of the women musicians who have inspired me through the years. Please take some trouble to view some of the Youtube links I have complied. If you wish to add to the list you are welcome :-) Wimmin Musicians to add to the Ada Lovelace list... Peggy Seeger - Snippet of a traditional ballad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4ajgLW-Yps Meredith Monk - 3/8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbqpgWl4SlM The Fiery Furnaces (Eleanor Friedberger) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnzICPS28h8 rasputina (melora creager)- my orphanage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyNSl7aDNh8 Kate Bush - Army Dreamers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdHOm256N4feature=related Gina X performance - No GDM 1979 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN-0FjVu4yAfeature=related Bjork - Innocence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72RFO1YtLMg Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill. Ken Russel (1962) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPq-u6WXwPM Lady Sovereign - Public Warning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z6ARbZ_RQY Future is Now--Nina Hagen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3CR0faCExwfeature=related Lene Lovich - Lucky Number http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnIJOO__jVofeature=related Dagmar Krause - Surabaya Johnny http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=dagmar+krauseemb=0aq=4oq=dagm# Cynthia Sley (Bush Tetras) - Too Many Creeps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmn-P4qbIwo Nina Simone - Backlash Blues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz4VhicbVH0 Siouxsie and the Banshees Hong Kong Garden http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF0OjrFIVWY Beth Gibbons (Portishead) - Over (PNYC) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhO2QuhBHvs Joni Mitchell-Help Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4oY8ojxp_8 PJ Harvey- Who The Fuck http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3L3IKc6QSk elizabeth fraser/cocteau twins - Hazel (live) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Ac7IB-khI the velvet undergound nico - Femme Fatale http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjjDmX9Tkss Sinéad O'Connor - nothing compares http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO8JWbG6bVwfeature=related PJ Harvey - Rid of Me (Live) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXHZkQe8ntwfeature=related Lady Sovereign - Blah Blah http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p48icgIs4sI ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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marc garrett wrote: rasputina (melora creager)- my orphanage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyNSl7aDNh8 Zoe Keating's (ex Rasputina) solo cello stuff is excellent, more cybernetic than retro. There's a cyberfeminist take on female string performers with digital delays that needs to be written, but I'm not competent to do it. Keating contributed some cello to Amanda Palmer's new album, which is quite good as well. - Rob. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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hi ruth, thank you for this great list : ) the trouble with lists is that there are always more to add on (such as your good self!) it's hard to know when to stop. there are so many amazing relatively-unsung women working away out there. it will be really great to see you many other inspiring women at the /etc in istanbul. we're doing the 090909 UpStage festival from there too : ) h : ) Ruth Catlow wrote: Hi Kathryn, Thanks for your post. It got me thinking about how important the visibility of other women's work is to me in my daily doings. There is then something about a lot of this works' basis in networks that makes me feel much more connected to it than I might be to work of other women artists. in the meantime I have been thinking about... Annie Abrahams - for one of my favourite early netart works, Separation http://bram.org/separation - and for her networked performances including the multiple series with panoplie http://aabrahams.wordpress.com Daphne Dragona - curatorial work with networked consciousness in the field of games art a - especially the amazing Homo Ludens Ludens at Laboral http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/05/homo-ludens-ludens-quick-conve.php and her work with Personal Cinema Aurea 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 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 in http://www.valuesatplay.org/ Aileen Derieg - her writing about life in the Freie Szene in Linz on the Furtherfield blog http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=blog/8 and translations of writing at the intersection of art, technolgy and social change. The De Geuzen crew - Renee Turner, Femke Snelting and Riek Sijbring - especially for their project Female Icons http://www.geuzen.org/female_icons/ Helen Varley Jamieson - for Upstage cyberformance platform http://upstage.org.nz/blog/ Maja Kalogera - for some great digital artworks, curating exhibitions and facilitating Upgrade in Zagreb http://www.wowm.org/site_v7/index.php Kate Southworth- her thinking on feminism/networks and her ongoing artistic collaboration with Patrick Simon with Glorius Ninth http://www.gloriousninth.net Ele Carpenter - http://www.elecarpenter.org.uk/ 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. Kate Rich - her imaginative, sideways and wonderfully parasitical project, Feral Trade, for trading goods along social networks. She has constructed a live shipping database, The Feral Trade Courier, for a freight network running outside commercial systems. The database offers dedicated tracking of feral trade products in circulation, archives every shipment and generates freight documents on the fly. http://www.feraltrade.org/ Kale Brandon -For her part (with Kate Rich) in Cube Cola, the first open source soft drink http://sparror.cubecinema.com/cube/cola and (with Heath Bunting) in Border Xing Jess Loseby - her net art http://www.rssgallery.com/ and various contributary projects especially Angry Women - Disturb the Peace http://www.rssgallery.com/2006/12/01/angry-women-disturbthepeace/ Lucy Eyers - her work on the first Node.London season of media art http://nodel.org and the low-fi netart locator http://www.low-fi.org.uk and commissions Liza Haskel - early work in collaborative media art practices involving critical engagement in the politics of technology http://mediaartprojects.org.uk Francesca da Rimini/Gashgirl - early dirty cyberfeminism and current exploratory work on small media, soft ecologies http://www.sysx.org/gashgirl/ Hannah Higgins - her book Fluxus Experience - not strictly technological but so closely connected in my mind to a more connected and distributed art experience Lucy Lippard -for dematerialization of the art object, for offering precursory context for net art but mainly for articulating the tensions for women artists looking to work with parity in a patriarchal, market driven art world Susy Gablick - her book Conversations before the end of time (not overtly technological -but somehow contextual) Sadie Plant - her books 'Zeros and Ones' and though not strictly technological, her book 'The Most Radical Gesture' about Situationism seems relevant too Finally I just have to slip Bjork in there for all of her songs which are full of blips and bleeps and glitches and technical experimentations and for her video with Chris Cunningham - All is Full of Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjAoBKagWQA Of course there
Re: [NetBehaviour] Ada Lovelace Day.
creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Ada Lovelace Day. Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:40:50 + Hello Marc, Karen, Well, I tend to lurkbut now I think I have to write: I will be signing up - to write about: Pauline Oliveros, composer and writer who has, through her work been a role model I, for one, needed, as I studied and now teach as a composer/writer in the area of experimental 'computer music'. I keep a piece she wrote about her university teaching experience near me, where I can draw on it for strength.Perhaps a brief extract might be of interest - this passage is a little out of context, but I think she certainly nails some experiences others will know only too well Her advice hails from her experience of US academia.. from the late 1960s on. 'A problem: Although there are pockets and waves of enlightenment in some institutions women continue to be marginalized in music and technology in institutions. They are rarely given teaching positions or assistantships in technology and music composition. A solution: In order to restore the balance of power between all beings, women have to acknowledge their secret feelings, devise coping strategies to deal with men of power and privilege, bond with and support one another in dedication to evoking the most positive and creative personal and professional behavior from themselves and others in every way that is possible. Creativity at all levels of society in every possible action is the only solution to the evolution of consciousness free of the limitations of fear' Pauline Oliveros, 'A Former UCSD Professor Speaks Up' (first posted online to cec-discuss - 1996 I think) For any woman, like myself, working in technologically based areas, there are I think particular challenges - sadly, still - to expect. After six years away from academia, I am back both to directing an electronic music studio and to teach in the area of experimental digital music (at City University London). And I come back find only one woman in the sizeable postgraduate community, and few applying or taking undergraduate electives. I understand from concerned male and female professonal colleagues that the situation is no less dire elsewhere. My heart aches to change this, and my personal 'solution' has been to be incremental and piecemeal, to engender local shifts of attitude, or attempts at such - but I feel this is failure of a kind. As Marc so ruefully and, I think, accurately, discerns the 'laziness' of - in this case - academic structures is hard (but not impossible, I dream...and hope ) to shake out of its complacency. But to my mind the roots lie deeper ( and are more pervasive and embedded) than whether individuals (male or female) 'bother' or not.. I would be very interested to know what others have encountered in various contexts and their advice. - and my computer hard drive's namewell, Ada, of course ;-) best, Katharine on 22/02/2009 12:44 PM marc garrett wrote: Hi Karen, Yes, I will definitely sign the pledge :-) Here's a snippet in respect of where I am coming from, which I wrote in the Crisis interview with the Open Source Art crew: Issues such as war, religion, the climate change and the financial crisis are all linked. To define any of them as coming from a singular root cause would be too easy, yet I do feel there is a deep rooted problem that needs serious observation. It is part of the crisis and a puzzle, hard-wired into humanity’s psyche, it exists everywhere. All of our cultures through history have failed to actively incorporate as equal, a feminine perspective, usually leaving women out of the decision making process as much as possible, unless they abide within the rules of a masculine orientated framework. Even though many women have managed to become part of life’s institutional infrastructures, they still have to behave according to patriarchal demands. This is because a fundamental male code of conduct has already been set in place as default long before any women have had a decent chance to challenge these unbalanced conditions. http://www.interviewingthecrisis.org/?p=27 I feel that we need more evolutionary approaches which are informed by and relate more to human related contexts, so to transcend the typical and lazy, male dominated, monotheist imposed structures (religious or institutional). Like yourself maybe? marc Hello Marc, Thank you for being one of the few males bothering about this - will you be place a pledge? Karen... Pledge AdaLovelaceDay I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do the same. — Suw Charman-Anderson (contact) Deadline to sign up by: 24th March 2009 1,341 people have signed up (341 over target) More details Ada Lovelace
Re: [NetBehaviour] Ada Lovelace Day.
Hello Marc,Thank you for being one of the few males bothering about this - will you be place a pledge? Karen... Pledge AdaLovelaceDay I will *publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire* but only if *1,000* other people will do the same. — Suw Charman-Anderson (contacthttp://www.pledgebank.com/AdaLovelaceDay/contact) Deadline to sign up by: *24th March 2009* *1,341 people have signed up (341 over target)* *More details* Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Women's contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines. Whatever she does, whether she is a sysadmin or a tech entrepreneur, a programmer or a designer, developing software or hardware, a tech journalist or a tech consultant, we want to celebrate her achievements. It doesn't matter how new or old your blog is, what gender you are, what language you blog in, or what you normally blog about - everyone is invited to take part. All you need to do is sign up to this pledge and then publish your blog post any time on Tuesday 24th March 2009. If you're going to be away that day, feel free to write your post in advance and set your blogging system to publish it that day. We will gather as many of the posts together on the day as we can, and we'll let you know exactly how we're going to do that nearer the time. For ongoing updates about Ada Lovelace day, please follow us on Twitter, join our mailing list or see our blog. http://findingada.com/ http://twitter.com/FindingAda http://groups.yahoo.com/group/findingada Who was Ada? Ada Lovelace was one of the world's first computer programmers, and one of the first people to see computers as more than just a machine for doing sums. She wrote programmes for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, a general-purpose computing machine, despite the fact that it was never built. She also wrote the very first description of a computer and of software. On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:14 PM, marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote: Ada Lovelace Day. Bringing women in technology to the fore. I've mainly stayed away from the discussion of gender issues in technology. I didn't think that I had any real expertise to share. But over the last six months, after many conversations, it has become clear that many of my female friends in tech really do feel disempowered. They feel invisible, lacking in confidence, and unsure how to compete for attention with the men around them. Then I see the stupid puerile misogynistic manner with which some of the more powerful voices in the tech community - some of them repeat offenders - treat women, and it makes me very cross indeed. The objectification of women is bad enough when it's done by the media, but when it's done by a conference organiser or tech commentator or famous tech publication, what message does it send? Nothing but You will never be taken seriously, but we might take notice of you if you're hot. But what to do? Well, let's pull back from the anger a little, and start to look instead at why it might be that women feel less secure in their abilities than most men, and what might help change that. Undoubtedly it's a complex issue, but recent research may shed some light: Psychologist Penelope Lockwood discovered that women need to see female role models more than men need to see male ones. more... http://findingada.com/blog/2009/01/05/ada-lovelace-day/ ___ 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
Re: [NetBehaviour] Ada Lovelace Day.
Hi Karen, Yes, I will definitely sign the pledge :-) Here's a snippet in respect of where I am coming from, which I wrote in the Crisis interview with the Open Source Art crew: Issues such as war, religion, the climate change and the financial crisis are all linked. To define any of them as coming from a singular root cause would be too easy, yet I do feel there is a deep rooted problem that needs serious observation. It is part of the crisis and a puzzle, hard-wired into humanity’s psyche, it exists everywhere. All of our cultures through history have failed to actively incorporate as equal, a feminine perspective, usually leaving women out of the decision making process as much as possible, unless they abide within the rules of a masculine orientated framework. Even though many women have managed to become part of life’s institutional infrastructures, they still have to behave according to patriarchal demands. This is because a fundamental male code of conduct has already been set in place as default long before any women have had a decent chance to challenge these unbalanced conditions. http://www.interviewingthecrisis.org/?p=27 I feel that we need more evolutionary approaches which are informed by and relate more to human related contexts, so to transcend the typical and lazy, male dominated, monotheist imposed structures (religious or institutional). Like yourself maybe? marc Hello Marc, Thank you for being one of the few males bothering about this - will you be place a pledge? Karen... Pledge AdaLovelaceDay I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do the same. — Suw Charman-Anderson (contact) Deadline to sign up by: 24th March 2009 1,341 people have signed up (341 over target) More details Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Women's contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines. Whatever she does, whether she is a sysadmin or a tech entrepreneur, a programmer or a designer, developing software or hardware, a tech journalist or a tech consultant, we want to celebrate her achievements. It doesn't matter how new or old your blog is, what gender you are, what language you blog in, or what you normally blog about - everyone is invited to take part. All you need to do is sign up to this pledge and then publish your blog post any time on Tuesday 24th March 2009. If you're going to be away that day, feel free to write your post in advance and set your blogging system to publish it that day. We will gather as many of the posts together on the day as we can, and we'll let you know exactly how we're going to do that nearer the time. For ongoing updates about Ada Lovelace day, please follow us on Twitter, join our mailing list or see our blog. http://findingada.com/ http://twitter.com/FindingAda http://groups.yahoo.com/group/findingada Who was Ada? Ada Lovelace was one of the world's first computer programmers, and one of the first people to see computers as more than just a machine for doing sums. She wrote programmes for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, a general-purpose computing machine, despite the fact that it was never built. She also wrote the very first description of a computer and of software. On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:14 PM, marc garrett marc.garr...@furtherfield.org wrote: Ada Lovelace Day. Bringing women in technology to the fore. I've mainly stayed away from the discussion of gender issues in technology. I didn't think that I had any real expertise to share. But over the last six months, after many conversations, it has become clear that many of my female friends in tech really do feel disempowered. They feel invisible, lacking in confidence, and unsure how to compete for attention with the men around them. Then I see the stupid puerile misogynistic manner with which some of the more powerful voices in the tech community - some of them repeat offenders - treat women, and it makes me very cross indeed. The objectification of women is bad enough when it's done by the media, but when it's done by a conference organiser or tech commentator or famous tech publication, what message does it send? Nothing but You will never be taken seriously, but we might take notice of you if you're hot. But what to do? Well, let's pull back from the anger a little, and start to look instead at why it might be that women feel less secure in their abilities than most men, and what might help change that. Undoubtedly it's a complex issue, but recent research may shed some light: Psychologist Penelope Lockwood discovered that women need to see female role models more than men need to see male ones.
Re: [NetBehaviour] Ada Lovelace Day.
Hello Marc, Karen, Well, I tend to lurkbut now I think I have to write: I will be signing up - to write about: Pauline Oliveros, composer and writer who has, through her work been a role model I, for one, needed, as I studied and now teach as a composer/writer in the area of experimental 'computer music'. I keep a piece she wrote about her university teaching experience near me, where I can draw on it for strength.Perhaps a brief extract might be of interest - this passage is a little out of context, but I think she certainly nails some experiences others will know only too well Her advice hails from her experience of US academia.. from the late 1960s on. 'A problem: Although there are pockets and waves of enlightenment in some institutions women continue to be marginalized in music and technology in institutions. They are rarely given teaching positions or assistantships in technology and music composition. A solution: In order to restore the balance of power between all beings, women have to acknowledge their secret feelings, devise coping strategies to deal with men of power and privilege, bond with and support one another in dedication to evoking the most positive and creative personal and professional behavior from themselves and others in every way that is possible. Creativity at all levels of society in every possible action is the only solution to the evolution of consciousness free of the limitations of fear' Pauline Oliveros, 'A Former UCSD Professor Speaks Up' (first posted online to cec-discuss - 1996 I think) For any woman, like myself, working in technologically based areas, there are I think particular challenges - sadly, still - to expect. After six years away from academia, I am back both to directing an electronic music studio and to teach in the area of experimental digital music (at City University London). And I come back find only one woman in the sizeable postgraduate community, and few applying or taking undergraduate electives. I understand from concerned male and female professonal colleagues that the situation is no less dire elsewhere. My heart aches to change this, and my personal 'solution' has been to be incremental and piecemeal, to engender local shifts of attitude, or attempts at such - but I feel this is failure of a kind. As Marc so ruefully and, I think, accurately, discerns the 'laziness' of - in this case - academic structures is hard (but not impossible, I dream...and hope ) to shake out of its complacency. But to my mind the roots lie deeper ( and are more pervasive and embedded) than whether individuals (male or female) 'bother' or not.. I would be very interested to know what others have encountered in various contexts and their advice. - and my computer hard drive's namewell, Ada, of course ;-) best, Katharine on 22/02/2009 12:44 PM marc garrett wrote: Hi Karen, Yes, I will definitely sign the pledge :-) Here's a snippet in respect of where I am coming from, which I wrote in the Crisis interview with the Open Source Art crew: Issues such as war, religion, the climate change and the financial crisis are all linked. To define any of them as coming from a singular root cause would be too easy, yet I do feel there is a deep rooted problem that needs serious observation. It is part of the crisis and a puzzle, hard-wired into humanity’s psyche, it exists everywhere. All of our cultures through history have failed to actively incorporate as equal, a feminine perspective, usually leaving women out of the decision making process as much as possible, unless they abide within the rules of a masculine orientated framework. Even though many women have managed to become part of life’s institutional infrastructures, they still have to behave according to patriarchal demands. This is because a fundamental male code of conduct has already been set in place as default long before any women have had a decent chance to challenge these unbalanced conditions. http://www.interviewingthecrisis.org/?p=27 I feel that we need more evolutionary approaches which are informed by and relate more to human related contexts, so to transcend the typical and lazy, male dominated, monotheist imposed structures (religious or institutional). Like yourself maybe? marc Hello Marc, Thank you for being one of the few males bothering about this - will you be place a pledge? Karen... Pledge AdaLovelaceDay I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do the same. — Suw Charman-Anderson (contact) Deadline to sign up by: 24th March 2009 1,341 people have signed up (341 over target) More details Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Women's contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely
