Diana McCarty

Independent media producer and feminist media activist Diana McCarty is a founding editor of reboot.fm, the award winning free artists’ radio in Berlin; a co-founder of the radio networks Radia Network and 24/3 FM Radio Network Berlin; and of the FACES (faces-l) online community for women, among other initiatives.

Born and raised in New Mexico, Diana McCarty has lived and worked in Europe since 1993 - Budapest in the 1990s and Berlin since the 2000s. She was active in independent internet culture with nettime, the MetaForum conference series, and different hacking spaces. In 2000, she co-founded bootlab initiative. McCarty was part of the International Women’s University server development team, and worked with Seda Gürses, Barbara Schelkle, Prof. Heidi Schelhowe, and Heiki Pisch – amongst others to develop feminist pedagogical approaches to learning technology. She co-initiated the exhibition Nervous Systems: Quantified Life and the Social Question, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2016, Berlin, and actively collaborates with the experimental media project Luta ca caba inda. Her work revolves around art, gender, politics, radical feminism, technology, and media. (2020)

Video

• Diana McCarty's talk at Nettime press conference, Vienna, May 1997.

Interviews

• Georgina Bruni, "Exclusive - Interview With An American Intelligence Agent", Hot Gossip UK, E-Zine, Dec 1997.
• Uschi Reiter, "Bootlab Story: Interview with Diana McCarty", 11 Jun 2002.
• "Interview with Diana McCarty", Digitales, Dec 2002, 8 min.
• Dušan Barok, "Interview with Diana McCarty", 3/4 27-28: "Remake", Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2012.
  • "Rozhovor s Dianou McCarty", trans. Lucia Udvardyová, 3/4 27-28: "Remake", Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2012. (Slovak)
• Vanja Budde, "Radiokunst für Nachtschwärmer. Diana McCarty hat das freie Kulturradio „reboot.fm“ mitbegründet", Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 29 Oct 2013. (German)

See also

• Reboot.fm
• Faces