Cyberfeminism

Associated notions: technofeminism, xenofeminism.

Pages

• Susanne Ackers
• Irina Aktuganova
• Anarchaserver
• Virginia Barratt
• Diann Bauer
• Mez Breeze
• Ren Loren Britton
• Shu Lea Cheang
• Constant
• Cyber-Femin-Club
• Linda Dement
• Marthe Van Dessel
• Valie Djordjevic
• Donestech
• Eclectic Tech Carnival
• Faces
• FemHack
• Flossie
• Lucca Fraser
• Genderchangers
• Girl Geek Dinners
• Marina Gržinić
• Helen Hester
• The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest
• Amy Ireland
• Verena Kuni
• Laboria Cuboniks
• Nathalie Magnan
• Ana Martínez-Collado
• Diana McCarty
• Alla Mitrofanova
• Netzfeminismus
• Ellen Nonnenmacher
• Old Boys Network
• Steffania Paola
• Julianne Pierce
• Sadie Plant
• Purple Noise
• Patricia Reed
• Francesca da Rimini
• Anne Roth
• Mindy Seu
• Femke Snelting
• Cornelia Sollfrank
• SubRosa
• Systerserver
• The living
• TransHACKfeminist! camp
• Varia
• Verbindingen / Jonctions
• VNS Matrix
• Yvonne Volkart
• Faith Wilding

Events

• "Replicunts: The Future of Cyberfeminism", Virtual Futures, 28 May 1995. [1]
• 1. Cyberfeminist International, Documenta X, Kassel, 20-28 Sep 1997.
• Eclectic Tech Carnival, internationally, since 2002.
• Cyberfem. Feminisms on the Electronic Landscape, EACC/Espai d´art contemporani de Castelló, Spain, Oct 2006 - Jan 2007. Curated by Ana Martínez-Collado.
• The Very First Year, Eyebeam, New York City, 2013. Facilitated by Laurel Ptak.
• TransHACKfeminist! camp, Calafou, Barcelona, 2014.
• Hacking Feminism symposium, Center for Transformative Media, Parsons The New School, New York, 9-10 May 2015.
• Technofeminism Now, ICA London, 17 Jun 2015.
• Femflix exhibition, Sydney College of the Arts, 11 Aug-3 Sep 2016. Curated by Jacqueline Millner, Jane Schneider and Deborah Szapiro.

Writings

• VNS Matrix, "A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century", Adelaide & Sydney, 1991, HTML. [2] [3] [4]
• Anne Balsamo, Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women, Duke University Press, 1995.
• Old_Boys_Network, "100 Anti-Theses of Cyberfeminism", 1997.
• Sadie Plant, Zeroes + Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture, London: Fourth Estate, 1998.
• Maria Fernandez, Faith Wilding, Michelle M. Wright (eds.), Domain Errors: Cyberfeminist Practices!, New York: Autonomedia 2002.
• subRosa, James Pei-Mun Tsang, Yes Species, Pittsburgh and Chicago: Sabrosa Books, 2005 (EN/DE); 2006 (EN/ES).
• Alexandra Pirici, Raluca Voinea, "Manifesto for the Gynecene – Sketch of a New Geological Era", Bucharest and Bologna, Jan 2015.
• Laboria Cuboniks, "Xenofeminism. A Politics for Alienation", Jun 2015.
• Armen Avanessian, Helen Hester (eds.), dea ex machina, trans. Stephan Geene, Gesine Strempel and Jennifer Sophia Theodor, Berlin: Merve, 2015, 160 pp. Texts by Rosi Braidotti, Shulamith Firestone, Donna Haraway, Laboria Cuboniks, Lisa Nakamura, Alexandra Pirici, Nina Power, Paul B. Preciado, Raluca Voinea. Introduction, Publisher, Book launch. Commentary: Fox (2015). (German)
• Armen Avanessian, Suhail Malik, "Laboria Cuboniks in Conversation", DIS Magazine, 23 Jul 2016.
• Cornelia Sollfrank, Rachel Baker, "Revisiting the Future with Laboria Cuboniks. A Conversation", Furtherfield, 27 Jul 2016.
• Francis Tseng, "Particular Universals", The New Inquiry, 22 Dec 2016. Interview with Helen Hester.
• Reading Room at OBN
• Publications on cyberfeminism at Monoskop Log

See also VNS Matrix#Writings and interviews.

Primary references

• Faith Wilding, Our Own Hands, Double X, 1977.
• Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto, 1985.

Historisation

• Alex Galloway, "A Report on Cyberfeminism: Sadie Plant relative to VNS Matrix", Switch 4:1 (2003).
• Carolyn Guertin, Quantum Feminist Mnemotechnics: The Archival Text, Digital Narrative and The Limits of Memory, University of Alberta, 2003. Ph.D. dissertation. [5]
• Claire L. Evans, "'We Are the Future Cunt': CyberFeminism in the 90s", Motherboard, 20 Nov 2014.
• Claire L. Evans, "An Oral History of the First Cyberfeminists", Motherboard, 11 Dec 2014.
• History of Cyberfeminism, n.d.

Resources

• Cyberfeminism Resources, Bibliography, Discussion Lists compiled by Monica Vasilescu, 2003.
• http://twitter.com/Bobcluness/lists/xenofemisn
• http://cyberfeminisme.org/