Exhibition

The exhibition is dedicated to Nathalie Magnan (1956-2016).

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The exhibition Cmptr Grrrlz brings together more than 20 international artistic positions that negotiate the complex relationship between gender and technology in past and present. Computer Grlz deals with the link between women and technology from the first human computers to the current revival of technofeminist movements. An illustrated timeline with over 200 entries covers these developments from the 18th century to the present. Invited are artists, hackers, makers and researchers who are working on how to think differently about technology: by questioning the gender bias in big data and Artificial Intelligence, promoting an open and diversified Internet, and designing utopian technologies.

Computer Grrrls is an exhibition by HMKV (Hartware MedienKunstVerein), Dortmund (DE), in coproduction with La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris (FR). The participating artists come from 16 countries: Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, USA, and Yugoslavia/Serbia.

Following the exhibition at HMKV Dortmund, the project will move to La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris in the spring of 2019, and in summer 2019 to MU in Eindhoven. In all places there will be film screenings, tours with the curators, artist talks and experimental workshops.

Curators: Inke Arns (HMKV), Marie Lechner (La Gaîté Lyrique)

An exhibition by HMKV (Hartware MedienKunstVerein), Dortmund (DE), in coproduction with La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris (FR)

Lorem Bitsum exhibition aims to inform the general public electronic literature (also called "digital literature"), a type of artistic halfway between literature and digital art, which has been produced in the Hispanic circuit. The works that this exhibition brings together are presented in various formats: poetry with code, hypertext narration, interactive fiction, kinetic poetry, generative works, performance, installations, interactive children's stories, etc.  these artists place experimentation with digital technology at the center of their creation while reflecting on our strong relation with the computing devices that surround us and the connective and global digital world.

How can the human body come to life on a two-dimensional screen? Can it become a playable environment, a platform, a game world? How are technologies and bodies (inter)woven to evoke new meanings of em-body-ment? Can digital fictions and poems evoke memories and images of our bodies that make us reflect, revisit, and re(con)figure our gendered identities? What are the relationships between exterior appearances and internal body functions and organs? And how do works of electronic literature allow users to engage in new forms of literary experiences and critical gameplay? In this part of the exhibition, these artists innovate digital, interactive and multimedia forms of creative writing, fabricating stories in flesh and bytes.

The exhibition was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Kule Institute of Advanced Studies, and sponsored by the Electronic Literature Organization.