cyberfeminism

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(Originally published on https://www.kampnagel.de)

Three days of intensive “digital feminism” featuring talks, video and room installations, workshops and DJ sets by international and Hamburg artists. World premieres and commissioned pieces look to pasts and futures, melding and blurring images and sounds – every bit as analogue as digital. Are we already “slaves to the algorithm” or can we find ways to escape the digital reproduction of inequalities? Representatives of the queer-feminist avant garde provide diverse approaches to and perspectives on these mediated worlds, local reference points and global echo chambers. Bots can lie but bits don’t bite!

Digifem is funded by Elbkulturfonds and within the framework of the Alliance International Production Houses supported by the Commissioner for Culture and Media. 

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Video art installation critical of the precarious, racialised, and gendered labour going on through the internet, or born-digital.

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"- What are the benefits of presenting yourself as a male freelancer?

- I work in academia, I am no stranger to the wage gap and heteronormativity in our society. I am sure that women make less than their male counterparts for the same work and I am also Latin American. Being a Latino woman makes me more prone to receiving less for the same hard work

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I have seen a difference between presenting oneself as a man in contrast with my daughter who presents herself as a woman: she does the same work and gets hired significantly less. She also has to use milder language and say 'please' and 'sorry' a lot more or she would come across as too bossy and difficult to work with." (Worker 1)

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Giardina Papa portrays workers who offer digital micro-services, fetish work or emotional support online, and gives them a voice. In Technologies of Care, we meet seven digital workers: an ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) artist, a virtual boyfriend, an online dating coach, a storyteller and video performer, a social media fan, a scientist working simultaneously as fingernail designer, and a customer service representative. Papa has found these freelancers in Brazil, Greece, the Philippines, Venezuela and the USA, where they offer their services anonymously via online platforms, which make a profit from them. With the exception of the virtual boyfriend, all in- terviews are interpreted by female-sounding voices. While the transcripts read like ethnographic research texts, the interviews in the video function like chamber plays on unfettered digital neoliberalism. (IA)

Technologies of Care​ documents new ways in which service and affective labor are being outsourced via internet platforms, exploring topics such as empathy, precarity, and immaterial labor.The video visualizes the invisible workforce of online caregivers. The workers interviewed in "Technologies of Care" ​include an ASMR artist, an online dating coach, a fetish video performer and fairytale author, a social media fan-for-hire, a nail wrap designer, and a customer service operator. Based in Brazil, Greece, the Philippines, Venezuela, and the United States, they work as anonymous freelancers, connected via third-party companies to customers around the globe. Through a variety of websites and apps, they provide clients with customized goods and experiences, erotic stimulation, companionship, and emotional support.The stories collected in ​Technologies of Care include those of non-human caregivers as well. One of its seven episodes, ​Worker 7 - Bot? Virtual Boyfriend/Girlfriend​, documents the artist's three-month-long “affair” with an interactive chatbot.

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Hartware MedienKunstVerein
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La Gaïté Lyrique
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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)

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Reflections on gender inequality within the cultural world. Glitch Goddess.

"#GlitchGoddess was originally born out of my #Arthack project on Instagram, which I started in 2016. In my practice I use glitch as a digital aesthetic, technological phenomenon, and as a way in which the digital is transforming and changing the physical. So “she is glitching” is defying the existing concepts of the female shape in art, as she is animated between slender, heavy, young, old, pregnant, curvy, stylized and also abstract, as a contemporary and digital approach to the representation of the female form. Her first hack appearance was in my Frieze London with Kavanaugh hack. I used her in my Art Basel Miami 2018 #arthack, with voices of artists like Joan Semel and Faith Ringgold from a documentary on inequality in the art world, and then it went viral with over 3 million views and 53k shares on my Public Facebook Page, and millions of other views on other art channels." (Marjan Moghaddam, in https://artspiel.org/marjan-moghaddam-pioneering-humanity-in-a-digital-…)

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"Glitched Goddesses With Portrait of Picasso @ArtBasel Miami 2018", #Arthack by #MarjanMoghaddam, posted on 12/9/18. Videos taken from @galerievivendi and Ingrid De Granier. Music by @beatsbyleet, voices: Jillian Mayer, Todd Levin, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Joan Semel, Faith Ringgold, Barbara Zucker from From Melissa Art Basel Takeover on You Tube and Gucci Artists for Gender Equality, You Tube. #ArtBasel #ArtBaselMiami #Scope #ScopeArtFair #DesignMiami #UntitledArtFair #ArtFair #GlitchedGoddess #NetArt #DigitalArt #PostInternetArt #DigitalSculpture #ChronometricSculpture #3d #Animation #3dCG #Mocap #Glitch #Feminist #AR #MR #VR #Lightwave3d #OctaneRender #Octane Made in #brooklyn #artist

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"Hacking Sarah Lucas with Hilma af Klint and @matieresfecales foot from Instagram"#Arthack by #MarjanMoghaddam posted on 2/4/19. Music @Bjork and @PJHarveyOfficial Singing "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" from #Youtube by the #RollingStones. #ChronometricSculpture with #GlitchGoddess of Miami #GlitchedOdalisque Non-Binary Nude Glitch & new ones inspired by #SarahLucas & #HilmaafKlint. #Arthack #Netart #PostInternetArt #Digitalart #MixedReality #DigitalSculpture #3d #3dCG #Animation #Mocap #SFX ##HilmaafKlint @Guggenheim #Guggenheim #NewMuseum #art #Exhibition #museum #AugmentedReality #VirtualReality #NewMedia #Brooklynartist #Glitch #Glitchart #lightwave3d #Octane #OctaneRender #GlitchFeminism #Artist #Brooklyn

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Part of the #GlitchedGoddess and #arthack series of the artist. Comment on gendered representation and body shapes.

"Stemming from an #ArtHack Instagram project which the artist initiated in 2016 to disrupt and democratize the exhibition space, her glitch aesthetic permeates the oscillating female forms depicted in her Glitched Goddesses series." (ANTE Mag: https://antemag.com/2019/03/16/augmented-humanism-the-artwork-of-marjan…)

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Her Body #arthack at #FriezeLondon 2019 with #GlitchedOdalisque #GlitchedGoddess Amelia Jones and Haydeh . Posted around 2.40pm 10/6/19 by Marjan Moghaddam

#Arthack #Intervention #FriezeLondon #FriezeArtFair #FriezeWeek Videos taken from @DuggieFields and @ByronBiroli . Voice of art historian Amelia Jones taken from @Friezeartfair - voice of unknown man taken from the videoes - Interventionist paintings Broad Barbara Krueger taken from The Broad, Lisa Yuskavage taken from Google search, and #MarjanMoghaddam @marjan_moghaddam_artist from hard disk - music from #Haydeh "I cry on Your Shoulders" on You Tube #PersianMusic #nocompulsaryhijab #Iran#Arthack #DigitalArt #NetArt #ChronometricSculpture #Glitch #GlictchArt #3dCG #Animation #Mocap #MixedReality #XR #AR #VR #SFX #Octane #OctaneRender #Lightwave3d #Blender3d #StreetArt of the internet

By Daniela Ørvik, 6 May, 2015
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The association between gender and technology that began with Shelley's writing of Frankenstein continued into the twentieth century, emerging in subtle, often-unexpected places.

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'City of dreams' is an excerpt from a work in progress entitled 'a smear of roses' and explores subjectivity, secrets, sadness and desire. The non-linear text of 'a smear of roses' ruptures traditional narrative, opening out into flightlines across the plains of madness, picking up trace memories of disturbing events, sensual and violent impulses, erotic encounters and pyschotic states.

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By Maya Zalbidea, 1 August, 2014
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Anthology of new media artworks made by women about gender violence and critical writing about gender violence and cyberspace.

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Antología de obras de arte de los nuevos medios hechas por mujeres acerca de la violencia de género y ensayos críticos acerca de la violencia de género y el ciberespacio.

By Maya Zalbidea, 30 July, 2014
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(h)adas is not a conventional essay and it does not only try to be about women and technology; (h)adas tries to find one’s own times and ways of domestication and emancipation that are deduced from daily life technologies, about its invisible power in appropriation and time management and expectations. It is a singular book, in which stories, research and autobiography cohabit and it has worth Remedios Zafra V Malaga Essay Prize “it has been written to revindicate the political power that accompanies this periphery , to make everything shared, to reflect upon the conditions in which repetition power of the world perform, some ways to battle against it from the critical consciousness and creation” (Translated by Maya Zalbidea) (Source: remedioszafra.net)

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(h)adas no es un ensayo convencional ni habla solamente de mujeres y tecnología; (h)adas trata sobre los tiempos propios y las formas de domesticación y emancipación que se deducen de las tecnologías de la vida cotidiana, sobre su poder invisible en la apropiación y gestión de tiempos y expectativas. Este libro singular, donde convive el relato, la investigación y la autobiografía, y que le ha valido a Remedios Zafra el V Premio Málaga de Ensayo, «se escribe para reivindicar el poder político que acompaña a esta periferia, para hacerlo compartido, para hacer reflexivas algunas de las condiciones en las que el poder de repetición del mundo actúa, algunas maneras de enfrentarlo desde la conciencia crítica y la creación» (Fuente: remedioszafra.net).