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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Vicki Sowry | Director
Australian Network for Art and Technology [ANAT]
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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