Exactly, Vicki, Exactly.
I am afraid, it is not an issue of "available information"
but of attitudes and (sometimes) uncounscious selection.
There is a festival in France that never selected women
until this year because there is a whole discussion about
Wo/Men balance in the arts. In their PR blurb they wrote
that this year they were "paying a special attention to
women". Their selection included 25% women.
And I know a curator that has never selected a woman in any
of his show...
Annick
Le 06/02/14 02:04, Vicki Sowry a écrit :
> The more things change, the more they stay the same...
>
> I just received an email from someone about how awesome Super Flying Tokyo
> was earlier this week....
>
> "Super Flying Tokyo <www.rhizomatiks.com/event/superflyingtokyo/>
> Following the previous editions of Flying Tokyo, the new event is growing
> and inviting internationally acclaimed digital artists to cultivate Tokyo¹s
> creative scene."
>
> With ALL of the "internationally acclaimed digital artists" being male.
>
> Vicki
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> Australian Network for Art and Technology [ANAT]
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>
> On 6/02/14 11:23 AM, "Bronac Ferran" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hi on this theme: I think the 2012 book 'Mainframe Experimentalism' published
>> by Univ of California Press is a useful resource; it has a subtitle 'Early
>> Computing and the Foundations of Digital Arts' and was edited by Hannah B
>> Higgins and Douglas Kahn.
>>
>> Inspired by today's discussion I just counted the number of female
>> contributors to the 24 'chapters' and there are three (Hannah B Higgins
>> contributes two chapters however as well as co-authors the introduction). I
>> like to think - and Jasia Reichardt is a good example of this - that the
>> contribution of the women who were leading developments in early computer art
>> was both formative and formidable (even if they weren't statistically
>> numerous). That may be just an issue of the era in which things were happening
>> but then in UK we had Delia Derbyshire (Delia Who? Yes exactly).....
>>
>> All v best
>> Bronac
>>
>>
>> Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone from Virgin Media
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: roger malina <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sender: "Curating digital art - www.crumbweb.org"
>> <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 17:16:26
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: roger malina <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] digital / analogue exhibition
>>
>> martin
>>
>> well actually there is a growing literature documenting the
>> work of the pioneers- one of the problems has been that
>> there are very few historians working on the pioneers
>> in art and technology ( eddie shanken comes to mind, in
>> my own university historian charissa terrranova is writing a new book)
>>
>> our leonardo book series has an open call for book
>> proposals that document the history of art science technology
>> http://leonardo.info/isast/leobooks/guidelines.html
>> contact sean cubitt the editor in chief if interested
>>
>> some of the books so far include
>>
>> From Technological to Virtual Art
>> by Frank Popper
>>
>> The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art
>> (Leonardo Book Series) [Hardcover]
>> Linda Dalrymple Henders
>>
>> Synthetics ( australian pioneers)
>> by Stephen Jones
>>
>> White Heat Cold Logic
>> Edited by Paul Brown, Charlie Gere, Nicholas Lambert and Catherine Mason
>>
>> MediaArtHistories
>> edited by Oliver Grau
>>
>> Women, Art, and Technology
>> edited by Judy Malloy
>>
>>
>> and to some extent
>>
>> Information Arts
>> Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology
>> by Steve Wilson
>>
>> So far we have failed to find a book proposal by a historian
>> really documenting the pioneering work in the soviet union and
>> central europe, or latin and south america = proposals welcome
>>
>> we are still in a phase with many of the pioneers from the 60s
>> who are still alive- so the focus is on preservation of archives
>> ( a number of universities have started recently focusing
>> on archives of the art and technology pioneers) and i know there
>> are a number of phd theses under way which includes valuable
>> oral histories= the media art histories conferences were started
>> as one mechanism for documenting and discussing the pioneers
>> but there are relatively few historians presenting at those conferences
>>
>> i note if you look at the authors of the books in the leonardo
>> book series 75% are by male authors so we are part of
>> the problem - book authors are gatekeepers like curators
>>
>> roger malina
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Martin John Callanan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> I would have thought a good response here is to create exhibitions and
>>> write about the pioneers. The information is hardly easy to find, so can
>>> you blame someone for getting it so wrong?
>>> m
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