Cyberfem - Spirit of Data
The term "cyberfeminism" can be used to describe feminist strategies, innovations, and critiques that define themselves in relation to the digital medium. Cyberfeminism is a network of theory, politics and artistic practice in permanent motion, which is constantly redefined and potentially changed by each additional position. Consequently, the exhibition "Cyberfem Spirit - Spirit of Data" does not provide a single definition of cyberfeminism, but the different artistic positions will shift the coordinates in the cyberfeminist localization that is currently taking place.
During the exhibition, there are several activities by groups of artists. Heather Cassils and Cathy Davies present themselves as clones of Bill Gates in a PowerPoint performance on opening night. The Gender Changer Academy will host a hardware computer workshop on December 11-12, 2001, for an unconventional approach to the machine. And for the finissage on January 12, 2002, DJs The Godmothers Part II will do themselves the honor of performing live their arts in criminal electronics to the short film 'la storia di giradischi a Madame Hu'.
In the exhibition, Jenny Marketou provides TaystesROOM, an open source tool for an independent approach to surveillance on the net. 'eurovision' by Linda Wallace is an interactive video installation on the global influence of scientific and technological European media exports. Cornelia Sollfrank's 'improved television' adds a cyberfeminist variant to a series of interventions in a piece of music by Arnold Schönberg. 'i look up ... i look down' is a video by Pernille Spence about the longing for freedom from gravity. In the video 'Remote Sensing' Ursula Biemann draws a topography of the global sex trade in the age of geographic information systems. Jen Liu's work 'world domination projekt in RGB' touches on the theme of virtual power.
With "Cyberfem Spirit" the Edith Russ House for Media Art realizes the exhibition stage of a series of events on cyberfeminism, which will take place in Bremen, December 7-9, 2001, with the laboratory "technics of cyber<>feminism <mode=message>", Frauen.Kultur.Labor Thealit and in Hamburg, December 13-16, 2001, with the conference "very Cyberfeminist International", Old Boys Network.
In cooperation with CONSTANT vzw. Vereniging voor kunst en media, Brussels (BE), Les Pénélopes, Paris (F), MAKE, the organisation for women in the arts, formerly The Women's Art Library, London (GB). Supported by NORD MEDIA, Oldenburgische Landesbank and with the support of the Culture 2000 programme of the European Union, Directorate General Education and Culture.
Curated by: Rosanne Altstatt, Helene von Oldenburg
