Ada Lovelace Day was conceived of and promoted by Suw Charman-Anderson 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.
In support of Ada Lovelace Day we invited women working in media arts to join the NetBehaviour.org email list for a week, in March ’09. They were invited to post information about their own work alongside the work of other women who had inspired them in their own practice. Some names came up a number of times but with different stories and for very different reasons. NetBehaviour provided a context for sharing and discussing influences and tracing connections: artistic, practical, theoretical, technical, historical, personal. For readability the list displayed here does not include all of the discussion but this can be traced back through the NetBehaviour archives.
Some contributors were anxious about the many excellent people who may have been missed out. We know this is not a definitive survey or list but it is an excellent resource and just one possible starting point for anyone wanting to know more about women working in media art.
A big THANKS to all of those – women and men – who contributed to this tribute!
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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 in.
http://www.valuesatplay.org/
Read the full list here
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MY NAME: netwurker_mez/][mez][[oz.org]/gossama[WoW-Bloodscalp]/bowwtoxx[WoW-Demon Soul]/netwurker_twin[Second Life]/mez breeze [geolocative]
URL: http://mezbreeze.com
INSPIRED BY
Linda Dement
4 her incredible early visual x-periments with trauma + lust + and the visc[f]eral.
www.lindadement.com/
Virginia Barratt
4 her early-90’s inspiration/queer theory + pioneering cyberfeminist work[s] + now 4 her ongoing commitment 2 micro-ecodevelopment.
http://mybigbackyard.blogsome.com
Kathy Acker
4 her pre-emptive writerly mashup-tech[niques] + taking head-on the copyright industry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Acker
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MY NAME: Karen Blissett
INSPIRED BY
Sadie Plant
I love her work, especially ‘Zeros + Ones, Digital Women + The New Technoculture’. “Sadie Plant introduces Ada Lovelace as a woman whose awareness of peripheries, of indices, headings, prefaces, etc. gave her a new way of perceiving reality. In her footnoted, non-fictional texts, these peripheral details were crucial in contextualizing the texts in historical and social reality.” Laura Lee. Laura’s review on the book.
http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/body/lgl1.html
Francesca da Rimini
I have always enjoyed Francesca’s net art work as well as her other works/collaborations to do with networked culture. Francesca da Rimini, aka GashGirl, (Adelaide/Rome) has been working in the field of new media since 1984 as an arts manager, curator, corporate geisha girl, cyberfeminist, puppet mistress and ghost. One of the original members of VNS Matrix, the Australian cyberfeminism group formed in 1991. Worked in New York on a project in collaboration with Michael Grimm, snafu and Ricardo Dominguez, los dias y las noches del muertos, and with Ricardo Dominguez on hauntings. Squandered hours investigating the artistic and erotic potential of negotiated email relationships, online virtual communities and web-based narrative architectures that have been reverse engineered into multiple immaterialities.
http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors/dariminibio.html
Ruth Catlow
I know, but she’s cool. And has been incredible in supporting other emerging artists as well as maintaining in still making interesting and challenging artwork with technology. One project springs to mind – ‘Rethinking Wargames’, a participative net art project instigated by Ruth Catlow of which calls for ‘pawns to join forces to defend world peace’. It uses the game of chess to find strategies that challenge existing power structures and their concomitant war machineries.
http://www.low-fi.org.uk/rethinkingwargames/
Hope Kurtz (1959-2004)
Such a talent. I remember seeing Hope perform in Amsterdam in 95 or 96, at the Next Five Minutes Conference – I was mesmerized by her articulation and excellent performance presence, and imaginitive intelligence. Hope “worked behind the scenes of the CAE collective by contributing to the conceptual basis for their work. It is through her brilliant editing that their work articulates challenging concepts to a multifarious audience many of whom might not otherwise come into contact with such radical thought. The Ensemble collectively authored several books including Electronic Civil Disobedience and other unpopular Ideas…”
http://www.thebrooklynrail.org/arts/july04/hopekurtz.html
The Critical Art Ensemble site – http://www.critical-art.net/
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MY NAME: Tatiana Wells
Free software/media artist and activist from brazil.
URLs:
http://midiatatica.info
http://contratv.net
INSPIRED BY
The collective body of g2g (BR)
http://interfaceg2g.org
Cindy Flores (MX)
http://ciberfeminista.org
The collective body of retome a tecnologia (BR)
http://retomeatecnologia.info brazilian campaign about
violence against women
The collective body of genderchangers (NL)
http://www.genderchangers.org inspiring women all over the world to use free technologies
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MY NAME: Simon Biggs
Research Professor edinburgh college of art
URL: www.littlepig.org.uk
INSPIRED BY
N Katherine Hayles and Margaret Morse
For their ground breaking work on digital literatures and interactive media.
Vera Molnar
For her pioneering work in developing expressive yet rigorous approaches to computer graphics.
Steina Vasulka, Joan Jonas and Pauline Oliveros
For setting artistic agendas.
Kathy Rae Huffman and Anne Marie Duguet
For their diverse activities, across three decades, to put new media arts and women’s practice, in this area in particular, on the agenda of museums, galleries, journals and the press.
There are many others…
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MY NAME: Pall Thayer, artist
URL: http://www.this.is/pallit
INSPIRED BY
I second the mention of N. Katherine Hayles and add Christiane Paul.
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MY NAME: Katharine Norman
I work mostly in digital music/radiophonic sound, and experimental writing about it – interested in listening, people, words, voices, places.
URLs:
Essay with weblinks to sonic work, http://www.stayconscious.com/writings/localmaterials.html
Email fiction, http://www.stayconscious.com/reach/yesreally/
Home page, http://www.novamara.com
INSPIRED BY
a few influences/inspirations from women working with technology and sound
Laurie Anderson
I’ve always regarded her as a sonic anthropologist of the highest calibre.
http://www.laurieanderson.com
Pauline Oliveros
Listener, network performer, thinker, composer, improvising musician. Her way of listening, and her music have been a beacon.
http://paulineoliveros.us/
Magali Babin
Extraordinary French-Canadian performer/composer finding wonderful sounds in unusual and usual places.
http://www.myspace.com/magalibabin
Delia Derbyshire and Daphne Oram
Both for pioneering work in electronic music in the UK, at a time when women were more often in the BBC typing pool than the BBC Radiophonic workshop.
http://www.delia-derbyshire.org/
http://daphneoram.org/
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MY NAME: Majena Mafe
My work focuses on the perverse affect of sound in/as language, and its
implications for digital ways of saying.
URLs:
http://www.sounded-language.blogspot.com/
http://www.that-unsound.blogspot.com.au
INSPIRED BY
Gertrude Stein
For being a ground breaker, ground shaker and self described genius. For her introduction of the loop in language that eventually filtered through into digital sound that the idea repetition is never repetition. The idea that if objects are things, so too are the word we use for them. That meaning does not lie linearly. She highlighted the non-definitive Her play with ear-play. For her insistent sane use of disruption. Honesty that written language is mock realism. For highlighting the aurally charged nature of language and its connection to meaning.
http://books.google.com.au
Meredith Monk
For sticking with her own throat sounds
http://www.meredithmonk.org/
Cathy Berberian
For interpreting contemporary music, Armenian folk songs, Monteverdi, The Beatles, and her own compositions in a very throated way. Especially for best known work is her “Stripsody” (1966), in which she exploits her vocal technique using comic book sounds.
http://that-unsound.blogspot.com/2008/09/cathy-berberian-trills-me.html
Cathy Brietz
For her elaborate video instillations. For her shots taken at media.
http://www.whitecube.com/artists/breitz/texts/78/
http://www.kunstraum.net/content-en/artists/index/b/candice-breitz/view?set_language=en
Pipilotti Rist
For being ‘not the girl who misses much’. For her insistence on the perverse pleasure principle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipilotti_Rist
http://www.pipilottirist.net/begin/open.html
Maja Ratkje
For her use of the voice as un-mediated instrumented sound.
http://www.ratkje.com/main.php
Joan la Barbara
For her use of multiple voices. For her use of multiple voices. For her use of multiple voices.
http://www.joanlabarbara.com/bio.html
Vicki Bennett and People Like Us
For the mischief. For her re-examining the throw away sounding out from the 40s and 50s. For the interpolation and density of sound image mashups.
http://www.peoplelikeus.org/index.html
Janet Cardiff
For being a composer/performer intrigued by change, the subtle and the thick in sound, fascinated with voices and definitely enamored by technology. For using her voice as raw material, which she transmutes into machine noises, choral works or pulverizes “into granules of electro acoustic babble and glitch, generating animated dialogues between innate human expressiveness and the overt artifice of digital processing” as the Wire Magazine put it.
http://that-unsound.blogspot.com/2008/08/janet-cardiff.html
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MY NAME: Annie Abrahams
URLs:
http://www.bram.org
http://aabrahams.wordpress.com
INSPIRED BY
Ada Lovelace
Jane Goodall
Virginia Woolf
Vita Sackville West
George Sand
Donna Haraway
Judith Butler
Olia Lialina
http://art.teleportacia.org/olia.html
and lots of men
yes lots of men
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MY NAME: Liliana Garcia
My current work is related to Lilith
URL: http://liligrana.wordpress.com/lilithandthetreeliliths-trial-project/
INSPIRED BY
Simon de Beauvoir
For opening my eyes that I have kept alert since then.
Laurie Andersen
For her magnificent acoustic realm.
Kate Bush
Who reminds me of something I cant quiet describe.
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MY NAME: Alex Olsen (aka Alex Ookpik)
URLs:
www.alexookpik.com
www.myspace.com/alexookpik
www.myspace.com/alexookpik2
INSPIRED BY
Okay, it’s not a short list, but I think that’s a good thing. 😉
*Inspiration from an early electronic music pioneer:*
Laurie Spiegel (added to the list with Daphne Oram et al)
She has recently posted a number of very nice, archival video clips of herself on YouTube. It’s so refreshing hearing her speak in such a no-nonsense way. She’s just so natural about it all (and such a good sport fielding all those awkward questions). Hearing her talk about music and computers so enthusiastically makes me swoon.
www.kalvos.org/spiegel.html
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzOJtZYsGSA&feature=related
*Mentorship & support:*
To the sound-focused, studio-loving, women that I have met in recent years here in Toronto, who have extended encouragement for my own music & sound studio practice:
Laurel Macdonald
www.improbablemusic.com/laurel/index.html
Anne Bourne (a student of Oliveros)
www.openears.ca/2005_site/2005/westerkamp.htm
Wende Bartley
www.naisa.ca/deepwireless/2002/bartley.html
*Camaraderie & Peers:*
I am so thankful that it seems that I meet more and more women every day who are either pursuing or asking about electronic music, recording, film editing, programming, etc.
I am especially thankful for my friends Eiyn Sof and Building Castles Out of Matchsticks, (did I really have to wait 30 years to find peers?):
www.myspace.com/eiynsof
www.myspace.com/buildingcastlesoutofmatchsticks
*Current Inspiration:*
Juana Molina
For stepping out of a successful acting career into a career making beautiful, unselfconscious, electronically manipulated folk music. To me she has re-defined to archetype of the mad-scientist electronic music ‘guy’, into a steady, feminine, force (especially with her elaborate one-woman live step-up!).
www.myspace.com/juanamolina
*Honorary mentions: *
Brenda Laurel (an early role-model in my interest in human-computer interaction)
http://tauzero.com/Brenda_Laurel/BrendaBio.html
To the supportive men I’ve met along the way, who have treated me as equal,
showed interest in my work and extended opportunities my way.
(I have to put Pauline Oliveros and Laurie Andersen here in brackets as they have been mentioned already but always bear mentioning again! 🙂 )
PS. I too forgot a very important link (in the realm of woman sound artists):
Hildegard Westerkamp
From her site: “Hildegard Westerkamp is a composer, radio artist and sound ecologist. She presents soundscape workshops and lectures internationally, performs and writes.”
http://www.sfu.ca/~westerka/
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MY NAME: Sarah Cook
URLs:
www.sarahcook.info
www.crumbweb.org
INSPIRED BY
Sara Diamond, Susan Kennard and the many great ladies of the Banff New Media Institute (you all know who you are!)
For organising and producing amazing future-forecasting interdisciplinary rigourously researched events and exhibitions in the field of new media, commissioning artists, building labs and platforms and generally encouraging an atmosphere of knowledge-sharing. I’ve met some of the most important people in my career from my time spent at Banff working for and with Sara and Susan; I owe much to them both, and they know it 😉
www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi
Kathy Rae Huffman
For opening her filofax to me within minutes of our first meeting, at my first visit to Ars Electronica, giving me names and phone numbers and subsequently introducing me to artists and cultural producers. Until that point every curator I had met was quite closed about their research and their social network and Kathy completely obliterated that museum-influenced impression that curating was about gate- keeping. She continues to inspire me by her very honest, ethical and straightforward working method, for not playing the power games so prevalent in the art world, for the early work she did for women in new media in the 1990s, for undertaking one of the first postgraduate courses in curating (actually Exhibition Design and later Museum Studies) and being (and I was also on my MA curating course) one of the few who wanted to work with media artists.
www.faces-l.net/en/user/10
Alison Craighead
For her (collaborative) art work, for being an absolute delight to work with, for helping me question and refine my commitment to new media, to art, to installation, to gallery-museum based practice, to collections, to archives, and to the web. (And together with Jon for teaching me about whisky, how to handle relationship breakups, how to be nice to strangers, how to shop online, how to be a minimalist, how to live and eat well, and where to get the best British change purses and German unctions).
www.thomson-craighead.net
Marina Hyde
For writing so smartly, sardonically, and delightfully about three of my favourite things to read about in the paper/online: politics, sport, and celebrity. On days I wish I were a journalist or blogger rather than a curator (which are many), contributing in an immediate and wide-ranging way to debates which can change minds about popular culture and media, I wish I could be like her.
www.guardian.co.uk/profile/marinahyde
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MY NAME: Jennifer Radloff
INSPIRED BY
Sally-Jean Shackleton of Women’sNet
For her work in training women in South, and Southern Africa and Africa in digital storytelling. She has also been instrumental in other solid and meaningful activist work that connects activism with the real use of ICTs to transform women’s lives.
www.womensnet.org.za
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MY NAME: Olga Panades Massanet
URLs:
www.ungravitational.net
http://virtualfirefly.wordpress.com
INSPIRED BY
Francesca da Rimini
For her evocative and cruel mappings of certain realities; her radical use of fiction, of the impossibility coming to life. Her manufacture of peripheral worlds, deeply rooted in actuality, but also exceeding it in a very powerful personal style that floods perception. And particularly for her way of constructing labyrinths that suck you in.
http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors/dariminibio.html
Natalie Jeremijenko
I find particularly inspiring her practical approach and aim to produce actual results. Her current project for example, the Environmental Health Clinic – www.environmentalhealthclinic.net – “develops and prescribes locally optimized and often playful strategies to effect remediation of environmental systems, producing measurable and mediagenic evidence and coordinating diverse projects to effective material change.” “Her work explores opportunities presented by new technologies for non-violent social change. Her research centres on structures of participation in the production of knowledge and information, and the political and social possibilities (and limitations) of information and emerging technologies – mostly through public experiments.”
Coco Fusco
For her ongoing fight against authoritarian policies and repression along borders, inside communities, and across countries. An active feminist working at the intersection of political intervention and media-art. Hers is a critical look into the technologically mediated environments of today that brings about questions in a daring and playful manner.
www.thing.net/~cocofusco
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MY NAME: Corrado Morgana
Has anybody mentioned Rosalind Franklin?
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MY NAME: Giselle Beiguelman
Media artist, graduate studies in communication and semiotics – professor, artistic director of Sergio Motta Art and Technology Award
URL: www.desvirtual.com
INSPIRED BY
Jenny Holzer
www.jennyholzer.com
Christiane Paul
too many links…
Ivana Bentes
I could not find anything relevant about her in English. Btw, this is very good (from the WSF),
http://podcast.amarc.org/Social_Forums/WSF/2009/Audios/AudioFiles/Grab_2_Evana_Bantich.mp3
During her speech Ivana argued that the free media movement has to abandon its “cry baby” mentality and make full use of all available technologies. She says that these technologies may have been created within a capitalist paradigm but they should not be held captive to it. We need to use them to advance our communities and peoples.
Virginia Woolf
My favorite writer
Clarice Lispector
My favorite writer too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarice_Lispector
Mez Breeze
mez is mez
www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker
Laurie anderson
www.laurieanderson.com
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MY NAME: Pall Thayer
INSPIRED BY
Oh, and let’s not forget the tireless work of Jo-Anne Green and Helen
Thorington at Turbulence.org
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MY NAME: Perry Bard
www.perrybard.net
http://dziga.perrybard.net
INSPIRED BY
Berta Sichel
Director of Audiovisuals at the Reina Sofia Museum Madrid who recently started a video collection for the museum. The inaugural exhibition for the the collection contained 32 installations, 12 of them by women (maybe a museum record?) and her programming has celebrated a wide range of internationally known women.
Second Sarah’s eloquent praise of Kathy Rae Huffman who was Director of Cornerhouse which commissioned my artwork Man With A Movie Camera: The Global Remake through its Bigger Picture program. Every artist should be as lucky as I was to have such an encouraging and supportive working relationship.
Simone De Beauvoir
For contributing a female voice to the history of western thought.
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MY NAME: Ghislaine Boddington
working within the group body>data>space
www.bodydataspace.net
with ResCen Middlesex University
www.rescen.net/Ghislaine_Boddington/index.html
and previously early digital sound and movement collective shinkansen
see here for shinkansen and Future Physical archive
www.connectivity.org.uk
INSPIRED BY
many many women across the years and we believe by even more of the future generations to come !!! in particular for us, the following women have been imperative as mentors in our development of interauthored telematic performance
Thecla Schiphorst
For her work on embodiment, sense enhancement and the human side of digital interaction. She worked as part of the original development team of Lifeforms software, the computer compositional tool for choreography and she has worked with Merce Cunningham since 1990 supporting his creation of new dance with the computer. She inspires many with her work at Simon Fraser University Vancover and with her international exhibits including Bodymaps: artifacts of Touch, an pioneer touch based video body installation. We have been pushed by her thinking and questioning while working with her producing the second iteration of “whispers” for Future Physical (Cambridge 2003) and producing Bodymaps into the ICA as part of Virtual Incarnations Dance Umbrella 2000.
www.sfu.ca/~tschipho//
Hellen Sky
Digital choreographer and telematic dancer, writer and director, the most experienced dancing woman in cyberspace !!! Hellen is the prophet we all need to look to for her early work on telematics and technology within the performance and installation space, using realtime data generated by the body. Co-founder of Company in Space in Melbourne (1992 – 2004) this group, who we worked with several times into the ICA and other contexts, was an inspiration for all dance technology in the 90s. We worked Hellen again recently for the Post Me-New ID Forum in Dresden and here is an excerpt of her writing from Virtual Physical Bodies catalogue, published by centre des arts d’Enghien-les-Bains, Paris, for the body>data>space exhibition Oct 2008 – Jan 2009
www.hellensky.com/hellen.swf
“….Although there is no gravity here
The weight of time holds me to this virtual floor
As you wait for me to arrive in streamings of bits and bytes,
zeros and ones
In realtime, lag time, day for nighttime
To arrive at the unstable matrix of my new skin
The screen is not a surface but reach of my extended touch “
….Hellen Sky
Amanda Steggell
For early work as online band Nood, releasing the first internet CD in early 1996. Inspirational work with Per Platou as Motherboard with installations and performative live art happenings, mediated and modulated by the intermediary influence of the net, often integrate audience participation and interaction. For ongoing exciting emotive projects, bringing sensitivities and real human presence to “dry” net time projects.
www.liveart.org
www.liveart.org/motherboard/index.html
Plus here, in London +++, so many great women working tirelessly, across all disciplines and the digital, often not getting much credit over the years………………
Rachel Baker
Leanne Bird
Ilze Black
Larisa Blazic
Susan Broadhurst
Ruth Catlow
Anna Collin
Susan Collins
Kelli Dipple
Bronac Ferran
Julie Freeman
Ruth Gibson
Lizbeth Goodman
Karen Guthrie
Vesna Grandes
Delphine Gaborit
Lisa Haskell
Dianne Harris
Leslie Hill
Laura Henry
Mia Jankowicz
Janis Jefferies
Shobana Jeyasingh
Francoise Lamy
Sophia Lycouris
Pauline van Mourik Broekman
Helen Paris
Sarah Platt
Nina Pope
Hannah Redler
Gini Simpson
Annika Stark
Nicola Triscott
Claire Welsby
Sheron Wray
Marie X
who have we forgotten ? sorry……..please do add more ……………:-)
PS this list proves there is no shortage of women in UK for panels and keynotes …….so how come so many conferences, panels, etc still have so very few women involved …..?????
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MY NAME: Renee Turner
Collaborates with Riek Sijbring and Femke Snelting under the name of De Geuzen a foundation for multi-visual research
URLs:
www.fudgethefacts.com
www.geuzen.org
www.geuzen.org/female_icons
INSPIRED OR IMPRESSED BY (AND THESE ARE JUST A FEW):
Donna Haraway
Author of A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century, she has a way of embedding and embodying technologies within history, science, bodies and everyday life.
Online lecture here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yxHIKmMI70
A Cyborg Manifesto: www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html
Laurie Anderson
Jack of all trades, hacker, pioneer and techno-shaman. In 1984, I saw her United States Live tour, and was humbled to witness it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SirOxIeuNDE
Steina Vasulka
An early pioneer of the electronic arts, Steina, often in collaboration with her partner Woody Vasulka, pushed the aesthetics of technology and video to its outer limits. In 1974, she taught at the Center for Media Study at the State University of New York, where she was the only female faculty member at that time. Through the years her work has played with the limits of technology while simultaneously embracing those restraints for their visual qualities. One particular example of this kind of approach is Machine Vision. An interview can be found here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd9jaqkY6Dw
Joan Jonas
She is a funky storyteller who has the capacity to weave together the rinky dink, the poetic and the technological. A snippet of Vertical Roll is here: www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/vertical-roll/video/1/
Charlotte Moorman
Bold, experimental and a fantastically lateral Southern thinker. Worked with Nam June Paik and had zero fears about toying with new technology. She also had a tremendous sense of humor.
Interviewed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiEJdOlgcDE
Avital Ronell
The author of The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech, is a mental broad surfer par excellence. Not only has she theorized about technology, but also stupidity, addiction and literature. She has a way of making wildly rogue connections. There is no link of her discussing The Telephone Book, but here’s one where she discusses stupidity:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ksoUF0jjY
Lisa Haskell
Organized different projects around technology and digital culture. I haven’t seen her in years, but those early projects were inspiring and brought many people together to think and produce in different ways.
Christina McPhee
Artist and writer….works with data landscapes. I have admired her as a moderator on Empyre for years. She has a way of raising the calibre of discussion without being exclusive or intimidating. That is truly a rare trait on list culture.
Pauline van Mourik Broekman
She co-founded with Simon Worthington Mute Magazine.
Kate Rich
The Bureau of Inverse Technology: Many years ago De Geuzen, asked her to come to the Netherlands and lecture at a symposium called Situating Technologies. She gave an inspiring talk on the Bureau’s activities. The suicide box is still brilliant.
www.bureauit.org/sbox/#video
Sandy Stone
She is Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory. I admire her ability to forge new ways of thinking about gender, machines, the erotic, science and frontier bodies. I saw her perform several years ago at V2 in Rotterdam, and she is an amazing storyteller. Last but not least, she has a great sense of humor.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLkqFy6J14w&feature=related
Josephine Bosma
Through her essays and interviews, she’s made valuable contributions to media art history and debate.
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.
Riek Sijbring and Femke Snelting (aka De Geuzen)
I have worked with both of these women for almost 15 years. Through practicing together, we have learned much about feminisms and media ecologies.
I could keep going and going with more women…. but I better stop here for the moment 🙂
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MY NAME: James Morris
INSPIRED BY
Mez
She 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;-).
Delia Derbyshire
Discovering about her 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.
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MY NAME: Rhea Myers
INSPIRED BY
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.
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MY NAME: Alan Sondheim
INSPIRED BY
Katherine Hayles
She has written on digital writing and literature – more importantly, I think, she’s written absollutely brilliantly on the philosophy of first and second-order cybernetics.
Wendy Chun
She has written on protocols, issues of control, and co-edited a brilliant new media reader.
Margaret Boden and Sherry Turkle
Both made, I think, the most critical contributions understanding of online psychology and phenomenology. Everyone should read their work.
Brenda Laurel
A brilliant writer whose work on theater and interface is really critical to understanding online interaction.
Julia Kristeva
Her theories of the chora and abjection resonate in cyberspace – I’m thinking of Powers of Horror for example.
Luce Irigaray
Her notion of fluid mechanics and its relation to the feminine is more than descriptive of online phenomenology – see Speculum of the Other Woman.
Anna Munster
Her book Materializing New Media: Embodiment in Information Aesthetics, has been a touchstone for me.
Ann Weinstone
Check out Avatar Bodies, A Tantra for Posthumanism – one of the very few sources really connecting Buddhist thought with cyber-space.
Mez
I know other people have mentioned her – but she has brought code and body together in cyberspace in a totally new way.
Sugar Seville
She ran the Odyssey Artspace sim in Second Life for years and created one of the most dynamic online cultural experiments and experiences I’ve seen
Stacy Horn and Theresa Senft
Check out,
www.terrisenft.net/writing/grandinterview.html
Stacy Horn
She’s a pioneer in social networking – check her out!
www.echonyc.com/~horn/bio.html
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MY NAME: Patrick Simons
INSPIRED BY
Delia Derbyshire
www.delia-derbyshire.org
Yoko Ono
www.a-i-u.net/biblio3.html
Annie Anxiety
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFdoPhytGqU
Maja Ratkje
www.last.fm/music/Maja+Ratkje
Katherine Norman
The impressively pioneering, used to use as The example of new work in lectures, her ‘My London CD’. Most of the tracks are up on sonus.ca and/or last.fm
www.last.fm/music/Katharine+Norman
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MY NAME: Rachel Beth Egenhoefer
URL: www.rachelbeth.net
5 WOMEN I THINK ARE AMAZING:
Katherine Hayles
I know she’s been mentioned already… “How we became Post Human” is one of my favorite books. In addition to being incredibly smart, ahead of the curve, able to make an argument and stand by it, I can say from personal experience that she is one of the most lovely academics to meet in person. I had the honor of working with her when she was at UCLA and I was always amazed at how down to earth and easy going she was. Able to sip a soda, make jokes, and talk about the news, and then go right into intense theory about the printing press and reading novels on mobile phones. FYI, she is now at Duke University.
URL: http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Literature/n.hayles
Martha Rosler
In one of my very first video classes back in undergrad we watched “Semiotics of the Kitchen” and I was hooked. Today some of my students find this video boring (not enough whiz bang for them I guess) and it frustrated me that they can’t put themselves in the time period that it was made and see it as an exploration of trying to figure out what the medium was and what it could do. In addition to her early videos she has written and edited numerous essays and books. She is still making work in New York and teaching at Rutgers University.
Sandy Stone (aka Allucquere Rosanne Stone)
Along with Sadie Plant who has already been mentioned, her texts are some of my favorites. “Split Subjects, Not Atoms; or, How I Fell in Love with My Prosthesis” is an oldie but a goodie and I think way ahead of it’s time. I think she brings an interesting addition to the list as a transgendered individual. Her semi-new website it pretty amusing…
http://sandystone.com
Margaret Morse
“Video Installation Art: The Body, the Image, and the Space-in-between” is a wonderful little easy she wrote that is in a book “illuminating Video”. I ready this years ago and still come back to it. I think that “video” should be dropped from the title as it really speaks to a lot of different kinds of art forms and how we view them, create them, display them, etc. She of course has many other texts as well, all written very intelligently but accessible.
Sue Gollifer
This email wouldn’t fit in your inbox if I listed everything Sue has a hand in. To name a few she is either on the board/ a member of/ holds a position in ISEA, SIGGRAPH, CAA (College Arts Association), Computer Arts Society (CAS), DACS (Design and Artist Copyright Society), Lighthouse Brighton, and many many more, all while also heading the MA in Digital Arts at the University of Brighton, working with Digital Printmaking, writing, making, and yes she has pink hair. Sue is no-nonsense, tells it like it is, gets things done, is amazingly successful, and yet still has a ton of fun, and is incredibly kind and generous.
http://artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk/research/academic/gollifer
And lastly as one extra… I’d like to add Ada’s mother – Anna Isabella Noel Byron. She is the one who raised Ada and encouraged her to study math and science instead of literature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Isabella_Milbanke
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MY NAME: Aileen Derieg
I work as a translator with an emphasis on Contemporary Art and New Media.
URL: http://eliot.at
INSPIRED BY
Judith Butler
Again and again, reading Judith Butler’s books has helped me to feel not quite so powerless in a world that I do not agree with. The way she questions things that seem to be taken for granted, proposing radically different ways of understanding the world that make so much more sense – her books are certainly among the most important I have read in my life.
http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/faculty_bios/judith_butler.html
Faith Wilding
A description I read many years ago as a young student of Faith Wilding’s “Invitation to a Burning” was what first captured my attention and awakened my interest in Faith and her work. Years later I was even more impressed to realize how she had continued to develop and evolve her work and ideas. When I first joined the Faces mailing list in the late 90s, I nearly fell off my chair when the first response to my introduction was a personal welcome from Faith. Having admired and looked up to this woman for so long, I was deeply touched by her response.
A few years ago, in the midst of a conflict, when I was feeling sad and low, I was standing at a window looking down on an empty space, which made me think of “Invitation to a Burning” again. I wrote to Faith then and told her how sad I felt, how I missed the kind of exhilarating actions that have meanwhile become part of art history. I was very grateful for and encouraged by her response. To me, she is not only a fascinating and inspiring artist and an intelligent and thoughtful writer, but also a wise woman.
www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/fwild/faithwilding
Margarete Jahrmann
I first became aware of Margarete through the “Poptarts” section of Telepolis that she and Kathy Rae Huffman were responsible for, so I think in many ways Margarete was really the one who first introduced me to the possibilities of feminist digital art. What I especially love about her work is the way all the many layers are ultimately transparent. Even though some of her writing may appear confusing at first glance, there is a depth and fundamental coherence to it that I find fascinating. As engaging as her work is at a first look, as often as I come back to it and look again, I invariably find there is always even more to it.
www.konsum.net
www.ludic-society.net
Amy Alexander
Like Margarete, Amy is someone I admired first, long before I had the pleasure of becoming personally acquainted with her. The first time I heard of Amy’s work was when she received an Honorary Mention in the Prix Ars Electronica for the “Multicultural Recycler”. When we later met through the Faces mailing list, I thoroughly enjoyed her sense of humor and her delightfully geeky interests. As we have stayed in contact since then, this is what I continue to especially appreciate and enjoy. What I love about Amy’s work is the way the humor, the not-so-serious view of things, is rooted in a very serious and well founded understanding of the issues at stake. She has an amazing ability to grasp complex issues and condense them into concise and witty statements.
http://amy-alexander.com
Paula Graham
Some years ago there was an interesting thread on the Linuxchix “issues” mailing list about how the women subscribed to the list became involved in computing. All the stories were wonderful to read, but the one that completely blew me away was Paula Graham’s. Not very long after that, I had the great pleasure of meeting Paula at the Eclectic Tech Carnival in Graz, and she has been very high on my personal list of most admired women ever since.
I’m not sure whether Paula actually invented the term “accidental techie”, but she is certainly the person I learned it from, meaning that when any kind of group reaches the point where they need to use technology, *somebody* has to figure out how to do it. Paula is most insistent about convincing other women to be self-confident and self-reliant enough – no matter what their background – to become that *somebody*. One of the most important lessons I have learned from Paula is that women don’t always need to be “nice”, and that can be quite a liberating insight.
www.opengender.org.uk
http://bastubis.wordpress.com
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MY NAME: Ximena Alarcon
URLs:
http://www.deeplistening.org/site/artists/a
http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/projects/ISE.html
I compose virtual sound environments and transform my scores in multimedia interfaces. I am extending and re-implementing an Interactive Sonic Environment – London Underground, which I initially built in Director, using Lingo language.
http://bartleby.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/~xalarcon/project/interactive.html
Soon, I will launch my site that links the metros of London, Paris and Mexico, thus you can have a virtual journey through the sounds of these three acoustic environments, on Internet. As a branch of this work, I have worked a networked off-line improvisation called “Listening and Remembering”, for commuters and their voice (in Mexico and Paris), in collaboration with Peter Batchelor.
Technology for me is not a goal, but a set of powerful cultural tools to analyse, experiment with, and extend perceptions of the world. My recent artistic work is mainly based on ethnographic work with commuters: http://soundingunderground.wordpress.com
INSPIRED BY
I am inspired and feel encouraged with these women’s work in art and technology:
Pauline Oliveros
Her outstanding work in electronic music and the continuous innovation in the use of technologies extending her philosophy of deep listening.
www.deeplistening.org/site/artists/O
IONE
Her art, dynamic networking, stimulating women’s art and power through dream work, using telecircles.
http://ionedreams.us
Serena Alexander
Strong electroacoustic textures and gestures, clean and master work, extending the power of her voice.
http://serenaalexander.com/
Jess Laccetti
A master blogger!
http://www.jesslaccetti.co.uk
Noemi Peña
Researcher in high technology to create “Custom Ceramic Products”
www.linkedin.com/pub/8/9b8/a48
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MY NAME: Diana McCarty (of Faces)
INSPIRED BY
Prof. Dr. Heidi Schelhowe
For her amazing work combining feminist concepts in technological models and her work with illustrating how important the construction of knowledge is: She informs just about everything that I do!
http://dimeb.informatik.uni-bremen.de/content/view/307/138/
Seda Guerses
Her work as a computer scientist is incredible. She asks the right questions and is a constant challenge to some very dangerous assumptions about privacy.
www.cs.kuleuven.be/~seda
Uschi Reiter
For her tireless commitment to working for Women in Technology. She is able to realize elegant participatory models.
www.firstfloor.org/ur/blog
Michelle Teran
Her work is incredible – she connects the social with so many aspects of technology.
http://techformance.blogspot.com/
VNS Matrix
They just got it: their early understanding of what was possible and scary about big daddy mainframe and how to subvert it!
http://lx.sysx.org/vnsmatrix.html
Gender Changers
Because they rock!
www.genderchangers.org
The Eclectic Tech Carnival
Because they rock!
www.eclectictechcarnival.org
Faces Community
Possibly the only 90’s mailing list that can sort out a cup of coffee, a sofa to sleep on and has members that organize their own meetings whenever they get the chance.
www.faces-l.net
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MY NAME: Francesca Da Rimini
INSPIRED BY
Linda Dement
A huge inspiration for me since i first met her in adelaide’s small but wild queer punk scene back in the early 1980s. her work is beautiful, fearless, adept.
www.lindadement.com/index.htm
Shu Lea Cheang
We met on email, i think through linda dement. creates complex multi-layered spaces mixing on and offline exploring issues around sex, violence, prejudice, society. pushes boundaries, always with incredible style, seductive surfaces, humour. a mistress of the interface.
Silvia Federici
Extraordinary radical historian. her book Caliban and the Witch examines women, labour, power and dispossession through the lense of inquisitions, demonisation and other forms of violence. a compelling account which can be read many times.
www.generation-online.org/p/pfederici.htm
Teri Hoskin
Philosopher, artist, criss-crossing media as the ideas demand. not afraid of the dark, ever. someone i can send my writing to, at any stage of roughness, without shame.
www.altx.com/ulmer/hoskin/fishtrap.html#
Rea
Artist working in sculpture, photography, digital media, installation. explores issues around indigenous/colonial histories and representation. smart, powerful, straight up.
www.artreview.com.au/art/profiles/artists/mint–r-e-a.aspx
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MY NAME: Ele Carpenter
The Open Source Embroidery project has led me to some fantastic women working with media arts and crafts in many different ways. So I’d like to nominate a list of women artists and writer who have inspired me in their rigorous enquiry, and whose work will, or should, go in the history books.
I’ve also blogged about Ada Lovelace on www.eleweekend.blogspot.com to highlight Richard Hamilton’s poster Free Ada Lovelace, which can be seen to make the connection between access to culture, museums, computing and software.
INSPIRED BY
Joanna Drucker
www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/members/drucker
Sneha Solanki
http://electronicartist.net/solanki
Aileen Derieg
http://eipcp.net/transversal/0707/derieg/en
Kate Pemberton
www.artisopensource.net/index.php
Becky Stern
http://sternlab.org/
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MY NAME: Tracey Meziane Benson
URLs:
www.byte-time.net
www.fauxonomy.org
www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotcbr
INSPIRED BY
Linda Carroli – Writer, artist and commentator.
http://flytrapper.synthasite.com
http://artwriting.blogspot.com
http://transmissionlines.blogspot.com
http://twitter.com/lcarroli
Patrica Piccinini – artist
www.patriciapiccinini.net
Linda Dement – artist
www.lindadement.com
Elizabeth Grosz – academic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Grosz
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MY NAME: Anne Roth
I wouldn’t consider myself being active in media or net arts, rather activism. I did an Ada Lovelace blog post (in German)
http://annalist.noblogs.org/post/2009/03/25/ada-lovelace-day-star-simpson-and-donna-metzlar about:
Donna Metzlar
Activist and (one of the) driving force(s) with the Genderchangers, www.genderchangers.org and Eclectic Tech Carnival, http://eclectictechcarnival.org
Star Simpson
Who was arrested at the Boston Airport (and later convicted) for “wearing a hoax device”, a selfmade LED application (see http://boingboing.net/2007/09/21/mit-student-arrested.html). She described herself in one sentence as “I’m an inventor, artist, engineer, and student, I love to learn, build, and do” and here are some of the things she built.
http://starbur.st/portfolio
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MY NAME: Max d. Well
INSPIRED BY
Lynn Hershman Leeson
Already kinda literally associated by one of her outstanding works: the movie *Conceiving Ada*… all her works (installations, videos) make her one of the most influential and important woman artists of the last decades
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MY NAME: Micha Cardenas
I was so excited to see this, as I’m always filling in my students about ada lovelace, who seems to get left out somehow of our “introduction to computing and the arts” class, often, or only brielfy mentioned…
So I signed up for the list. But I’m not a woman, I’m transgender. I don’t identify as a man or a woman, but I guess you could say I’m mtf, in permanent transition. So, if you want a submission from a femme transgirl, here goes…
I’m interested in the interplay of the body, technology and biopolitics. I did a performance called Becoming Dragon in dec 2008. just finishing up my MFA at ucsd, just started working in sheldon brown’s experimental game lab.
URLs:
http://technotrannyslut.com
http://secondloop.wordpress.com
INSPIRED BY
Avital Ronell
Philosopher of technology, for being my friend and mentor, ever so briefly, one summer at EGS, and a massive inspiration who turned my whole idea of knowledge and thought and ways of approaching politics upside down and inside out. i can’t even describe how much i owe to her…
http://as.nyu.edu/object/avitalronell.html
Allucquere Rosanne (Sandy) Stone
Another philosopher of technology, another amazing woman who i met at EGS who was so supportive of me throughout my 15 immersive performance of Becoming Dragon, being more than generous, providing guidance, wisdom and grounding, and for thinking through the questions of online worlds and gender so long before i even started considering them, and for so generously providing me with personal advice about transitioning that was so valuable to me.
http://sandystone.com
Adriene Jenik
Networked performance artist, creator of distributed social cinema – adriene is one of the main reasons i am even in grad school and decided to dedicate myself to being an artist and has also been so, so generous and giving throughout my years working with and knowing her. her warmth along with her deep, deep knowledge of new media art has guided me so much. she has been one of the main people in my life to really educate me about feminism.
http://adrienejenik.net
Orlan
For not being afraid to find the limits of merging the body and technology, orlan is the artist who has inspired me most. i think her work is a shining example and challenge to artists’ commitment everywhere.
http://orlan.net/
Donna Haraway
Another massive inspiration for how i think about politics and technology and the body who’s thinking on interspecies and transspecies relationships helped me develop my own ideas in my work.
Beatriz da Costa
Bioartist, interspcies collaborator. For making so much inspiring bioart, for the brilliant, brilliant term Tactical Biopolitics, for her guidance in one short studio visit about Becoming Dragon which helped me reframe my approach to the whole project, and which has turned out to me a great suggestion.
www.beatrizdacosta.net/
Elle Mehrmand
My closest and dearest friend right now, a brilliant new media performance artist and beautiful, strong, brave ally.
http://visarts.ucsd.edu/something-happening/?author=18
http://myspace.com/assemblyofmazes (that’s her band, but she’s working on a website soon)
Subrosa
For their brilliant linking of witch hunts, queer and gender variant persecution and feminine knowledge production in Yes Species.
http://cyberfeminism.net
probably not surprising, but its my personal list…
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MY NAME: Marc Garrett
URL: www.furtherfield.org
INSPIRED BY
Anne-Marie Schleiner
Velvet-Strike. www.opensorcery.net/velvet-strike – A collection of spray paints to use as graffiti on the walls, ceiling, and floor of the popular network shooter terrorism game “Counter-Strike”, conceptualized during the beginning of Bush’s “War on Terrorism.”
“…part of a growing movement to bring a message of peace, love and happiness to online shooters by any means necessary. Graphical User Intervention, a more radical group of protesters, will go so far as to sacrifice their characters for the greater cause of getting out a message of non-violence.” Wired.
When this appeared on the net art scene in 2002 I completely understood and appreciate why Anne-marie used her computing and art skills to embark in such a dynamic interventionist tactic, in challenging the psychology, attitudes and fetish around violence and war in the form of interventionist, networked play. It had to be done, especially in contrast to the overwhelming experience of witnessing our governments and media falling into the typical trappings of opting for more violence to (supposedly) solve terrorism. I personally, found it all extremely frustrating seeing the world torn apart by other (slack) males, as well as those who bought into. This is also one of the various anti-war net artworks, which inspired me to make some of my own anti-war net art-works.
Aileen Deirig
Aileen, for her dedication in being part of and supporting various contemporary, independent groups and organisations; many involving women where she has selflessly shared her energy, ideas and varied skills, whether it be in programming, writing or social engagement. A collaborator who genuinely incorporates her personal, social and contextual beliefs into her everyday life and practice. I also admire her intelligence in understanding that art is not just about product, but also fluid place where contemporary factors such as feminism, politics, technology and human context all have a place, allow agency. Some of the projects that Aileen has been involved with are:
Genderchangers – http://genderchangers.org,
The faces list – www.faces-l.net/,
the Servus blog – http://core.servus.at/node/164,
the Furtherfield blog – http://blog.furtherfield.org (thanks Aileen),
Monochrome Blog – http://www.monochrom.at/english,
and more.
You find more Aileens projects, translations and writings here – http://eliot.at
Josephine Bosma
Josephine is also important to mention, especially in repsect of her work around net art, networked cultures and media art generally. From 1991 until 1998 Josephine Bosma worked with the independent station Radio Patapoe in Amsterdam and also with VPRO radio, a Dutch national broadcaster. Since 1993 her focus has been on media art and media theory and she has published numerous interviews and essays in book collections and in magazines including Mute (UK), Telepolis (D), UHK (NO), and Switch (USA). She played a key part in organizing the radio part of the Next 5 Minutes 2 and Next 5 Minutes 3 festivals, and has edited the streaming media sections of the nettime book, ReadMe and the N5M3 workbook. In January 2001 Josephine initiated the newsletter for net art criticism, Cream. Josephine Bosma lives and works in Amsterdam. Josephine Bosma’s Database, here you will find essays, articles, lecture notes, transcripts and broadcasts etc.
http://laudanum.net/cgi-bin/media.cgi?action=frontpage
Sadie Plant
The most important Sadie Plant book for me was ‘The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age, published in 1992. It’s one of those books that you read over and over again. What I personally got from it was how rich her perspective was in contrast to most Situationist historical texts on the subject, and more expansive. Here is a link to an interesting interview with Sadie Plant Brett by Stalbaum and Geri Wittig – http://switch.sjsu.edu/web/v5n1/plant/
If you have not read The Most Radical Gesture and do not wish to take the risk of buying it, why not visit here on Questia where you can read it on-line and copy etc www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=103446663
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MY NAME: Helen Varley Jamieson
my ada lovelace day post:
http://creative-catalyst.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/13-AdaLovelace-Day.html
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MY NAME: Michelle Kasprzak – Curator & Writer
…and here’s my post, too!
http://michelle.kasprzak.ca/blog/archives/365
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blogged at: http://m3me.wordpress.com
Ada is an inspiration as much in her foresight as in the ways she accomplished and implemented her ideas. going beyond the conventions of her days, she did not let herself being encloistered by her class and society, but found ways to implant her ideas into the public sphere.
Conceiving ada was my initiation to her life and work, transposed already to our times.
Technology stems from the industrial-military complex, and what it is missing most, in order to be used artistically, is poetry. poetry as in beauty, as in emotion, as in awe.
Here some contemporary artists i came across that are driven in this way:
natabor: www.aa-vv.org
adriana sa: http://adrianasa.planetaclix.pt
ursula scherrer: www.ursulascherrer.com
sculptrice: http://iiie.klingt.org/sculptrice
This brings us back to nature, maybe the most compelling discussion we should be having, as an arrogant, snobish past is giving way to a growing sensation of symbiosis and the fragility of its interrelations.
A 130 year old woman was ‘discovered’ in kazakhstan; when asked (how? why? – kind of silly really; as if they were not more interesting points of debate) attribute humor and using grandmother’s cures for all ills. An unbroken chain of knowledge, that women can pride themselves on. Interestingly, it is not always adquired but can ‘feel’ intuitively right.
Ada is as close as it can get to adam, ‘the first one’, tricked out of paradise and innocence by the scheming eve, eager for more; our chastity belt ever since. this might be coming full circle..
There is a growing movement of women empowerment worldwide, which will make a difference, specially when the patriarchal society is about to wave the white flag; like the microcredit movement or video volunteers:
http://www.videovolunteers.org/
Ada is not about any specific thing, she is about the ‘going beyond’ oneself to achieve something that wants to come forward. it is about doing the intuitive thing. names don’t really matter. it is about communication and exchange. she developed a part of that, the growing ‘global consciousness’ we call ‘the net’ – a tool that shrank space and time;
curious where it will take us..
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MY NAME: Nina Gazire
URL: http://blog.premiosergiomotta.org.br/
INSPIRED BY
Hanne Darboven
Since the 1960s, Hanne Darboven has focused her art-making on daily “writings” that chronicle existence and evoke the passage of time. The 2,782 typed and hand-written daily writings or drawings that make up Leben, leben/Life, living represent Darboven’s systematic approach to counting the years 1900 to 1999. These drawings make visible two orders of time: the actual time taken to create them and the historical time that they summarize. Darboven asserts the presentness of time by marking its passage in a literal form that also takes up volumetric space when the writings are installed in a large gallery. The work also includes two dollhouses that are part of Darboven?s extensive collection of popular artifacts. The houses, photos of which are included in the installation, also mark time as one represents a nineteenth-century German home and the other a house from the 1950s.
http://www.cmoa.org/international/html/art/darboven.htm
Donna Haraway
Donna J. Haraway (born September 6, 1944 in Denver, Colorado) is currently a professor and chair of the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States. She is the author of Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology (1976), Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1989), Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991), Modest Witness@Second Millenium. FemaleMan Meets OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience (1997, Ludwig Fleck Prize), The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (2003), and When Species Meet (2008). Haraway earned a degree in zoology and philosophy at the Colorado College and received the Boettcher Foundation scholarship. She lived in Paris for a year, studying philosophies of evolution on a Fulbright scholarship before completing her Ph. D. from the Biology Department of Yale in 1972. She wrote her dissertation on the functions of metaphor in shaping research in developmental biology in the twentieth century.
Gilda de Mello e Souza
Gilda de Mello and Souza (Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1919-2005) was a philosopher, critical literary, writer and Brazilian university teacher. She passed her infancy in the farm of the parents, in Araraquara,Sao Paulo’s country, but returns the Sao Paulo in 1930 to study. She entered the College of Philosophy, Sciences and Literature of the University of Sao Paulo in 1937, graduating in Philosophy in 1940. She collaborated in the production of the magazine Clima, together with its future husband Antonio Candido. In 1952 she receives completes her PhD in Doctor in Social Sciences with the defense of the intitled work The fashion in century XIX, publishing the thesis in 1952. In 1954 she became assumes the chair of Aesthetic in the Department of Philosophy of the USP, department that would be directed by Gilda between the years of 1969 and 1972. She retires in 1973 and becomes: Teacher of the College of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences of the USP
in 1999.
Martha Rosler
Martha Rosler (born July 29, 1943) is an artist. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she now lives. She graduated from Brooklyn College (1965) and the University of California, San Diego (1974). Rosler works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance, as well as writing about art and culture. Her work and writing have been widely influential. She has lectured extensively nationally and internationally and teaches art at Rutgers University and the St?delschule in Frankfurt.She serves in an advisory capacity to the departments of education at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art, the Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy (all New York City). Rosler’s work is centered on everyday life and the public sphere, often with an eye to women’s experience. Recurrent concerns are the media and war as well as architecture and the built environment, from housing and homelessness to systems of transport.
http://home.earthlink.net/~navva/index.html
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MY NAME: Cristina L. Duarte
Here’s my blogg A Ciudade das Mulheres or, in english, the city of women – my inspiration come of Cristina de Pisan, the writer from 16th century, who wrote ‘the city of ladies’, and other texts.
I am from sociology (sociology of culture), and I’m working on a thesis on gender studies (Phd). In the past i was also a journalist in the area of culture and fashion. This mailing list of netbehaviour is really amazing. I discovered more today in regards to women media artists than in the past year 🙂
INSPIRED BY
my aunt natalia
marguerite duras
virginia wolf
laurie anderson
patti smith
paula rego (painter)
louise bourgeois
women photographers
judith butler
rosi braidotti
lucy irigaray
simone de beauvoir
paula roush
portuguese women poets/writers
portuguese feminists
and many others 🙂
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MY NAME: Ana Valdes
I started a digital magazine for women 1995, it was called Ada and it’s today archived in the adress http://www.algonet.se/~agora/ada/index.html The mag was only in Swedish and it’s today discontinued but it’s still used as a good archive of articles related to women and technology.
Hi here comes my inspiration:
Alexandra Kollontaj
La Pasionaria
Emma Goldmann
Rosa Luxemburg
Virginia Woolf
Simone de Beuvoir
Maria Zambrano
Ulrike Meinhof
My grandmother
My mother
All my 200 jail comrades who supported me during my jailtime in Uruguay
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MY NAME: Maria Lusitano
URL: My blog is www.marialusitano.com
INSPIRED BY
Portuguese older women of my family and friends, circles, for brave acts, done in old complicated historical times of our country. Their names Judite Fonseca (my best ninety year old friend), Isolete Pato (my math teacher), Maria do Carmo Carpenter.
Then:
Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, Marguerite Yourcenar, Louise Bourgeois, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler, Gertrude Sandqvist, Bel Hooks, Paula Roush.
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MY NAME: John Hopkins
hmmm, haven’t had the time to think about this issue in the last two weeks to the depth it deserves, and it quickly turns into a happy wander through the depths of memory. and so this is a totally incomplete list… and it’s not about just ‘media’ artists anyway, it’s about women working in arts and culture who have influenced my worldview through the crossing of paths…
In no particular order, I would mention Lucy Lippard, a big influence at CU-Boulder where she was stationed when I was doing my MFA; Janice Tanaka, a video teacher I had at the same time; Kathy Kennedy, the owner of Photoworks, the top custom B&W lab in NYC, she turned me into a master printer; all my women students at the Icelandic Academy who taught me much about gender equality and fearless creative expression, especially Sara Bjornsdottir and Solveig Sveinsbjornsdottir; Valgerdur Hauksdottir, my colleague, friend, and artist who initiated one of the first networked/distributed Master’s programs in Fine Arts in Europe in the early 90’s; Finnish artist Kaisu Koivisto, a constant inspiration and friend; Nan Hoover, media and performance artist and teacher, whose
passing last year was really a tragic loss to all who knew her; Bernice Luhulima, Eija Makivuoti, and Mari Keski-Korsu in Helsinki, Dagmar Kase in Tallinn, Rasa Smite in Riga, Isabelle Jenniches in Santa Cruz, Sophea Lerner in Delhi; Share.dj amigas Marie-Helene Parant in Montreal and Keiko Uenishi in NYC; Kristin Bergaust from Atelier Nord days; Francis Charteris in Boulder; Amanda McDonald Crowley now at eyebeam; Honor Harger; Kathy Rae Huffman; Helen Varley Jamieson; Carmin Karasic; Josephine Bosma; Joanna Buick; Sher Doruff; Bronac Ferran; Elisa Giaccardi; Antoinette LaFarge; Alice Miceli; Varsha Nair (womanifesto) in Bangkok; Leena Saarinen; Katrin Sigurdardottir; Helen Thorington; Adrianne Wortzel…
Other former students who are continuous sources of creative inspiration: Sarah Chung, Nadja Franz, Jane Crayton, Fernanda Scur, Dona Laurita, Monique Stauder, Angelica Chio, Mary Finney, the Icelandic Love Corporation; Annu Wilenius
Frida Kahlo; Louise Bourgeois; Yoko Ono;
and others…
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MY NAME: Lauren Cornell
I would say I’m inspired by women I work alongside, immediately three people come to mind: Caitlin Jones, Hanne Mugaas and Ceci Moss. All are dynamic, completely independent thinkers and constantly pushing conversations in the field of new media and internet art forward.
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