Hi, CRUMBers,

The discussions of the past two weeks have been fascinating, illuminating and obviously to be continued indefinitely.

Please, though, could we return to the original October 08 theme of Gender, Art and New Media?  The gender discussion was really interesting, to me at least.  I'd like to contribute and respond to others' comments if we can take it up again.

Thanks,
Marcia 

On Oct 1, 2008, at 2:52:07 AM, "Verina Gfader" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From:   "Verina Gfader" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:    [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] Gender, art and new media . . . Theme October 08
Date:   October 1, 2008 2:52:07 AM PDT
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Theme of the Month October/November 08
Gender, art and new media: Organising, negotiating, participating, and
acting in events 


This theme explores ideas around gender and its status in art and
technology, more specifically, in current media events such as
conferences and symposia, or, on a smaller scale, workshops and other
sites of temporary cultural interventions. In response to CRUMB list
spontaneous debates, this theme solicits further debate based on the
experiences of those working in new media and contemporary art in general. 

Is gender ex- and inclusion in new media events still a live subject?
Now that technological art histories are being mapped, who has their
hands on the map and the territories? Is the fluidity and performativity
of gender in technologically informed environments a whole new ball
game? If we are nodes in a network, then do nodes have a gender, and why
are some 'paranodal', 'subsystems', or 'outsystems'? If we have A
Thousand Plateaus, then are some plateaus higher than others? If women
are so good at non-hierarchical, multi-vocal social networking, then how
come the most famous 'Relational Aesthetics' artists are men? 


References:

Gender diversity at web conferences: 
http://www.kottke.org/07/02/gender-diversity-at-web-conferences

CRUMB discussion list in September 2008 following the Cybernetics
Serendipity Redux:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=new-media-curating

Cyberfeminist fora such as Locating Cyberfeminism in Singapore: A
Dialogue: http://www.refugia.net/irina/.



Invited respondents include:

Janis Jefferies is an artist, writer and curator, Professor of Visual
Arts at the Department of Computing, Goldsmiths University of London,
Director of the Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in
Textiles and Artistic Director of Goldsmiths Digital Studios. She is an
associate researcher with Hexagram (Institute of Media, Arts and
Technologies, Montreal, Canada) on two projects, electronic textiles and
new forms of media communication in cloth.

Susan Kennard is the Director of The Banff New Media Institute and
previously worked in the not-for profit volunteer radio sector. Susan
has a master's degree in Communication for Development from the
University of Malmo, Sweden, is a Governor of the Canadian Conference of
the Arts and a board member of the Banff YWCA. 

Björn Norberg, currently curator at Mejan Labs in Stockholm, Sweden. He
has been working as curator since mid 1990's, both in traditional
museums and in net art and media art organisations, in Europe, North
America and Asia. http://www.mejanlabs.se

Michelle Teran 
Born in Canada, Michelle Teran is a media artist currently based in
Berlin. Within her practice she is interested in the relation of the
body, physical space and media. She uses participatory performance,
live installation and outdoor projection as interventionist strategies
that explore the ontologies of hybrid space created through the overlaps
of communication and audiovisual networks with the built spaces of the
city. These projects involve working within different locations, social
and cultural contexts and are the direct results of occupying these
spaces and cultivating these exchanges. 

Cornelia Sollfrank, hacker, cyberfeminist, conceptual and net.artist,
co-editor of thing-hamburg.de; since 2004 practical and theoretical
contributions to the discourse on Intellectual Property; PhD candidate
at Dundee University, Scotland. http://artwarez.org

Johnny, Professor Johnny Golding, Chair of Philosophy in the Visual Arts
and Communication Technologies and Head of the MA-PHD in Media Arts
Philosophy Practice Programme at the Univ of Greenwich London. Her most
recent work: Dirty Theory: Art and Philosophy after Metaphysics
(Routledge). Video and sound compositions include: Games of Truth (a
blood poetic in 7 part harmony) and God is a Lobster (and other
forbidden bodies).

Irina Aristarkhova is writing and teaching on comparative feminist
theory, contemporary aesthetics, gender and technology. She is Assistant
Professor of Women's Studies and Visual Art at Pennsylvania State
University. http://www.personal.psu.edu/ixa10 

Sabine Himmelsbach studied Art History, Medieval History and Cultural
Anthropology at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany.
From 1999 to 2005, she was Exhibition Director at the ZKM | Center for
Art and Media in Karlsruhe, responsible for exhibitions such as FUTURE
CINEMA and her own curatorial projects Fast Forward or Coolhunters. In
October 2005 she took up the position of Artistic Director of the Edith
Russ Site for Media Art in Oldenburg. There, she curated exhibitions
like Ecomedia or currently JUST PLAY: Music as a Social Practice. 

Deborah Lawler-Dormer has been the Executive Director of MIC Toi
Rerehiko (formally the Moving Image Centre) since 1995. In that time she
has worked to promote and support a dynamic and growing culture of
media-arts practice in Auckland and New Zealand. She has programmed,
curated, staged and managed numerous film, video and digital media shows
to support environments of innovation in which the fusion of art and
technology are developed and nurtured. http://www.mic.org.nz

Judith Rodenbeck, Professor of Art History, Sarah Lawrence College;
Editor-in-Chief, Art Journal; author, Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow
and the Invention of Happenings (forthcoming, 2009).
http://pages.slc.edu/~jrodenbe

Lina Dzuverovic is the co-founder and Director of ELECTRA, a London
based contemporary art agency established in 2003. She is also currently
one of the two curators (with Stina Høgkvist) of Momentum, the Nordic
Biennial (which will take place in 2009 in Moss, Norway).
http://www.electra-productions.com

Mare Tralla, Estonian media artist and organizer. She was programme
chair of ISEA2004, Tallinn. Currently PhD student at University of
Westminster.

Rosi Braidotti, Professor in the Humanities, Arts Faculty, Utrecht
University. Author of e.g. 'Patterns of Dissonance. A study of women in
contemporary philosophy' (1991) and 'Nomadic subjects: embodiment and
sexual difference in contemporary feminist theory' (1994).
http://www.let.uu.nl/~rosi.braidotti/personal/

Eva URSPRUNG lives and works in graz/ austria. Studies of psychology and
linguistics. Since 1986 freelancing artist. Installations, performances,
art in the public, electronic and social space. Working with video,
conceptual photography and sound. Bass-guitar and sax with ZLAN, sax
with wavegroom, jamika ajalon, nina wurz, annette giesriegl, laptop with
electronic orquestra. http://ursprung.mur.at/