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|birth_place = [[Athens]], [[Greece]]
 
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'''Maria Karagianni''' (1979, [[Athens]]) studied photography and graphic arts at the Fine Arts School of Athens and holds a Masters in media design from the [[Networked Media Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam|Piet Zwart Institute]] in Rotterdam (2008). She creates software and hardware tools for interactive projects and works as a freelance web designer and developer using free and open source software. Maria has collaborated with choreographer [[Thomas Körtvélyessy]] and composer [[Sjoerd Leijten]] to reflect on authorship and open/closed structures in dance and sound composition with the use of notations and code. She has also given lectures about the complexities of copyright licensing. She is a member of the [[Genderchangers]] and [[Media Liberation Front/Feminism]] collectives which have organized workshops and events about media and public space. She lived in [[Rotterdam]], [[Brussels]], [[Paris]], now she is based back in [[Athens]].
 
  
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'''Mara Karayanni''' (Μάρα Καραγιάννη, 1979, [[Athens]]) is a software developer, sysadmin and artist. Their work swings between computational and analogue media for publishing, zine and print-making, to python programming, and writing manuals for sysadmin tasks to more cultural and gender critique based texts about internet technologies and FOSS. They are part of the feminist servers [https://anarchaserver.org/ anarchaserver] and [https://systerserver.net/ systerserver], where they host mailing lists, code repository, wiki, streaming and archive interfaces for video based events and experimental artworks about cyber and techno-feminism. They studied graphic arts at the Fine Arts School of Athens and hold a Masters in media design from the [[Networked Media Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam|Piet Zwart Institute]] in Rotterdam (2008). They lived in [[Rotterdam]], [[Brussels]], [[Paris]] and [[Athens]]. (2022)
  
 
; Works
 
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* [http://mlff.org/ Propaganda Machine]
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* [https://psaroskalazines.gr/zines/ Artistic tech manuals]
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* [https://psaroskalazines.gr/zines/RTFM/ Read The Feminist Manual]
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* [https://cucu.gr/prints/ Silkscreens]
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* [http://mlff.org/ Media Liberation Front Feminism]
 
* [http://mara.multiplace.org/notations-under-provisions Notations Under Provisions]
 
* [http://mara.multiplace.org/notations-under-provisions Notations Under Provisions]
 
* [http://mara.multiplace.org/content-removed-walls-installed/ Content removed / Walls installed]
 
* [http://mara.multiplace.org/content-removed-walls-installed/ Content removed / Walls installed]
 
* [http://mara.multiplace.org/openmode/ dance and sound performances]
 
* [http://mara.multiplace.org/openmode/ dance and sound performances]
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* [http://computationalculture.net/software-as-dispute-resolution-system-design-effect-and-cultural-monetization/ "Software As Dispute Resolution System: Design, Effect and Cultural Monetization"], ''Computational Culture'' 7, Oct 2019.
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* ''[[Media:Tunnel_Up_Tunnel_Down_A_Zine_About_Private_Virtual_Networks_2019.pdf|Tunnel Up / Tunnel Down: A Zine About Private Virtual Networks]]'', 2019.
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* [[Mastodon::https://systerserver.town/@mara]] [[Base:Mastodon|(Mastodon)]]
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* [https://pixelfed.social/mara Pixelfed]
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Latest revision as of 10:23, 7 December 2022

Born Athens, Greece
Lives in Athens, Greece
image file generated with laban type-notation

Mara Karayanni (Μάρα Καραγιάννη, 1979, Athens) is a software developer, sysadmin and artist. Their work swings between computational and analogue media for publishing, zine and print-making, to python programming, and writing manuals for sysadmin tasks to more cultural and gender critique based texts about internet technologies and FOSS. They are part of the feminist servers anarchaserver and systerserver, where they host mailing lists, code repository, wiki, streaming and archive interfaces for video based events and experimental artworks about cyber and techno-feminism. They 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). They lived in Rotterdam, Brussels, Paris and Athens. (2022)

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