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Hi every one, I am very happy that this discussion is reappearing here (I was the one who reacted to the anouncement on Yasmin) Thanks !!! I was a bit disappointed by the 'cold' reaction on yasmin list (lack of women there ? of feminists ? more women here ?) Lately I have seen so many adds from events presenting only male participants. I try to write to the organisers, but it seems to be a very poor weapon. (and chronophage) and then I get excluded even more !! What kinds of action are possible ? Boycotting these events ? writting massively to them ? or to their sponsors ? :) creating festivals for women to make them visible ? (I suggested to a few curators -male- to organise an event on women using new medias, and I am sure it would be a great exhibition. but none did till now) Could we create a price for 'sexist' events ? (or narrow minded ones ?) or a price for parity ? How could we convince art institutions to make (and make public) their statistics on gender ? How can we make curators work more with women ? About the fact that french artists do not speak/write enough english to be included in international events. Some do it very well. Antoine Schmitt for example. he got a few prices abroad. Miguel Chevalier is speaking spanish. is exhibiting sometimes in South America. I wonder if the way women use language (I mean, use it to promote themselves) is an impediment. Is there some gender analysis on ways to write a promotional text to take part in exhibition ? Last point : May I mention some french women pionneers in the art and technology field ? Marie-Hélene Tramus, Liliane Terrier, Monique Nahas (they were my teachers at univ Paris 8 in the 90's). Nathalie Magnan, Monique Wender, Cécile Babiole, Catherine Nieky, Marie Genevieve Havel, Annie Dissaux, Judith Darmond... Susana Sulic, and myself !! Sorry for those that I don't know. how many are still active ? Regards, Anne-Sarah http://aslemeur.free.fr Vicki Sowry <[log in to unmask]> 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 > > ----------- > 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 >