cyber fems real meetings: March 30 - March 31, 2007

cyber feminism past forward
cyber fems virtual real
cyber fems real meetings

cyber fems real meetings: March 30 - March 31, 2007
Duration of the exhibition: March 9 until March 31, 2007
Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday 3-7 pm

Austrian Association of Women Artists
Maysedergasse 2
1010 Vienna/Austria
Tel: + 43-1-513 64 73/Fax – 9
[email protected]
http://www.vbkoe.org
http://www.vbkoe.org/cyber_feminism_past_forward.htm

Kloe Bratz (TC), ][mez][ breeze (AUS), Carla Cruz (PT), Cym (AUT/NL),
Aileen Derieg (AUT), Valie Djordjevic (G), Nina Hochtl (AUT), Deb King
(USA), lady tigers night club LTNC (AUT), lizvlx (CH/A), Jess Loseby
(Various) et al, Diana McCarthy (USA/G), Nancy Paterson (CAN), Regina
Celia Pinto (BRA), Suzanne van Rossenberg (NL), sisterO (AUS), Nina
Sobell (USA), Evelin Stermitz (AUT/SLO), Eva Ursprung (AUT), Francesco
Ventrella (I), Faith Wilding (USA), Nanette Wylde (USA), Jody Zellen (USA)

"cyber feminism past forward" consists of a "cyber fems virtual real"
exhibition with feminist net art, websites, posters, screenings and
"cyber fems real meetings" with presentations, panels and performances.
The exhibition focuses on current works of international media artists,
the history of women's movements and it celebrates the pioneers of
cyberfeminism.


cyber fems real meetings

Friday March 30 2007

7 pm Name the depoliticalization of cyber feminisms!
Carla Cruz (PT), Aileen Derieg (AUT), Valie Djordjevic (G), Nina Hochtl
(AUT), Rudolfine Lackner (AUT), lady tigers night club LTNC (AUT),
lizvlx (AUT/CH), Suzanne van Rossenberg (NL), Diana McCarthy (USA/G),
Evelin Stermitz (AUT/SLO)
In the panel "Name the depoliticalization of cyber feminisms!" we will
concentrate on the question - how are aspects of the depoliticalization
of feminisms emerging in light of today's global politics.

Saturday March 31 2007

10–1 pm cyber feminism past forward workshop
Rudolfine Lackner (AUT) - in collaboration with the
women's-spring-university
In this workshop she will point out the different meanings of the term
"network" in the feminist art movement. Over the years: 1910, 1938, 1968
and 1997 many things happened under the name of feminism. But what does
the phrase "under the name of feminism" mean in that sense? To register
for this workshop please go to www.frauenuni.net

3 pm Take Nothing for Granted
Aileen Derieg (AUT)
"For me, cyberfeminism means taking nothing for granted, rejecting
techno-determinism to take control of all the myriad possibilities for
questioning, experimenting, playing, reconfiguring reality … I would
like to share some examples of cyberfeminism that inspire, delight,
amuse and challenge me."

4 pm World of Female Avatars
Evelin Stermitz (AUT/SLO)
She will present her net art project which is about the expanded
understanding of the relationship between women and their corporeality
in times of virtual reality, avatars and cyborgs.

4:30 pm No Men's Land
Cym (AUT/NL)
The media artist cym has been working with the internet since 1996.
Since 1998 she has been researching the relationship between virtual
reality and real life. In her lecture she will present some of her
projects and talk about her experiences in the virtual and the real
space. Afterwards she will introduce the project No Men's Land for which
she won the Marianne.von.Willemer.06 Women's-Netart-Award.

5 pm LTNC's magic garden - experimental Internet TV
lady tigers night club - LTNC (AUT)
They will talk about the project shown in the exhibition. It was
originally created for the festival City of Women in 2006 in Ljubljana / Slovenia and became internationally known as the festivals first feminist netproject.

6 pm on accountability, lecture performance
Carla Cruz (PT), Nina Hochtl (AUT), Suzanne van Rossenberg (NL),
Francesco Ventrella (I)
"If you consider cyberfeminist art activism, what does it say about its
visibility? Is institutionalizing oneself the only solution to get
oneself heard? I can't feel while institutionalizing myself."

7 pm Faces: 10 years (past and future)
Valie Djordjevic (G), Diana McCarthy (USA/G), Faces mailing list members
2007 is the ten year anniversary of the Faces mailing list. They would
like to mark the tenth year of their existence by looking back at their
beginnings and talk in informal interviews about what has changed in the
past ten years. They would like to invite old and new Faces members to
talk about their experiences of the last ten years and about their plans
for the next ten years. What do women want to achieve? What are the
strategies? Where can we find lines of collaboration?

10 pm Concert by Ursprung (AUT) and Cym (AUT/NL)


Curators: Rudolfine Lackner, Evelin Stermitz
Staff assistants: Katharina Hoffmann, Magdalena Olzant

Free admission

Sponsors:
Bundeskanzleramt:Kunst
Die Grunen Frauen Wien
Frauenfruhlingsuni FFU
McShark
Schremser-Bier
Telekopie
The Women's Media Center NY
Wien:Kultur