Cyberfeminism

VNS Matrix, A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century, 1991.

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

First Cyberfeminist International: Old Boys Network Reader 1, 1998, Log, PDF.

Sadie Plant, Zeros + Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture, 1998, Log, PDF.

• 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.
• Sadie Plant, "The Future Looms: Weaving Women and Cybernetics", Body & Society 1:3-4, Sage, 1995, pp 45-64.
• Old_Boys_Network, "100 Anti-Theses of Cyberfeminism", 1997.
• First Cyberfeminist International: Old Boys Network Reader 1, eds. Cornelia Sollfrank and Old Boys Network, obn, 1998, 88 pp. Documentation of the September 1997 conference as part of Hybrid Workspace at Documenta X, Kassel.
• Sadie Plant, Zeros + Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture, London: Fourth Estate, 1998, 305 pp.
• Next Cyberfeminist International: Old Boys Network Reader 2, eds. Cornelia Sollfrank and Old Boys Network, obn, 1999, 104 pp. Extended documentation of the March 1999 conference in Rotterdam.
• Very Cyberfeminist International: Old Boys Network Reader 3, eds. Helene von Oldenburg and Claudia Reiche, Berlin: b_books, 2002, 132 pp. Extended documentation of the December 2001 conference in Hamburg.
• 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.
• Cornelia Sollfrank, 'Revisiting the Future. Cyberfeminism in the 21st Century,' in: Ryan Bishop, Kristoffer Gansing, Jussi Parikka, Elvia Wilk (eds.), across & beyond – A transmediale Reader on Post-digital Practices, Concepts and Institutions, Sternberg Press, Berlin (2016), pp. 228-247. (2003).

Resources

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