Mara Karayanni

Born	Athens
Lives in	Brussels

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Mara Karayanni (Μάρα Καραγιάννη, Athens) is a technologist, educator and artist. Mara’s work involves computational and analogue media for publishing, print-making, computer programming, making artistic technical manuals, and writing gender critique based texts about internet and the Free and Open Source technologies. Mara is part of the feminist server Systerserver, where they host mailing lists, code repository, wiki, streaming and video based experimental artworks about cyber and techno-feminism. Mara studied graphic arts at the Fine Arts School of Athens and hold a Masters in media design from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (2008). Currently Mara teaches at ERG - École de recherche graphique in the Digital Arts Department.

Works

• Artistic tech manuals
• Read The Feminist Manual
• Silkscreens
• Media Liberation Front Feminism
• Notations Under Provisions
• Content removed / Walls installed
• dance and sound performances

Publications

• "From Feminist Servers to Feminist Federation", ARPJA, Vol. 12 No. 1 (2023): Minor Tech,
• "Software As Dispute Resolution System: Design, Effect and Cultural Monetization", Computational Culture 7, Oct 2019.
• Tunnel Up / Tunnel Down: A Zine About Private Virtual Networks, 2019.

Links

• Website
• Mastodon
• Pixelfed
• erg