Dear List Members,

Happy New Year!

As a moderator, I would encourage you to post any items of interest to this group in 2018. 
If you are involved in any projects, have a new publication or exhibition or event, please post information about this to the list. Remember these emails go automatically to 100+ women and it is not possible to recall or edit them. Encourage your fellow researchers to join this list.

This is my news from KT press for 2018.
While n.paradoxa has ceased publication as a journal in 2017, the website at http://www.ktpress.co.uk is currently undergoing a major "revamp" for 2018. 

A new 'Feminist Art Observatory' has been launched to present the online resources section of the website. 
Take a look at: http://www.ktpress.co.uk/feminist-art-observatory.asp
This is a new framework for the site which presents the lists of books, magazines, manifestos and links which have been developed and online for over 20 years. There are many ways for users to search these lists by author, date etc or going to different pages.
If you have suggestions or spot omissions, I would be very happy to add new items.

There are several research projects online as well available through the Feminist Art Observatory:-

The 1000+ feminist art theses lists MA and PhD theses from 36 countries since 1974.
Users are invited also to post their own - if they are not present on the searchable list. 
As the theses are linked to the University repositories, it is possible - within 3 clicks - to read the text of most entries in this database.

The Feminist Art Topics Project was designed to present 30 common topics in feminist research linked to 16-35 artworks in each case.
The artworks listed under each topic are presented as a chronological list. Like n.paradoxa, it is an international inter-generational list.
When I started this, I thought it would be a useful resource for degree students to encourage them to think more carefully and widely about their chosen examples for their thesis. While there are lots of useful links, the project does not provide a commentary on the works - this is for researchers to invent, develop or discover. There are also no pictures, because each artwork could be searched for in the net, given that the internet remains primarily an image database.
 
It is still possible to purchase any of the 40 volumes in print of n.paradoxa from the website and review the abstracts of the 500 articles that were published between 1998-2017. While individual articles are still available to purchase, the electronic subscriptions to individuals and institutions are being slowly withdrawn - so if your University has only an electronic subscription - if you could encourage them to purchase a complete set of the print journal, you and fellow researchers will still have access to n.paradoxa.

n.paradoxa's MOOC (mass open online course) is available at http://nparadoxa.com
This free online course offers 10 lessons in feminism and contemporary art. To join it, you need only register your email.
I hope you might find some ways to use it in teaching or recommend it to people who are beginning to acquaint themselves with feminist issues in relationship to contemporary art. Launched in Feb 2017, around 800 users have joined so far.

Please post your own project news to the list....

Katy Deepwell
Editor of n.paradoxa