Nancy Mauro-Flude

Nancy Mauro-Flude is an artist and theorist driven by the demystification of technology, and the ‘mystification’ that lie in and through the performance of the machinic assemblage. Her research grapples with the talismanic logics of island cultures. Media experimentation and pedagogy form the basis of her work where the computer is approached as a theatre machine. Under various pseudonyms she actively works to fuse radical forms of open culture by introducing experimental pedagogy with a particular focus upon relatively conservative and weakly networked regions. "...Gray magics, hijackings, driftings and seizures of power the sensitive and subversive subterfuges by which she urges, twists and explores the aesthetic politic of the open source spirit" (Anne Goldenberg, 2013) ".dpi feminist journal of art and digital culture."

Alumni of Piet Zwart Institute.

She leads post-digital HCI aesthetics studio School of Design at RMIT Melbourne.

Founder of Desponias Critical Media Coven and long term member of the Genderchangers home brewed since 1998, working to actively change the ‘gender’ of technology. Involves projects such as: systerserver, Eclectic Tech Carnival.

Selected projects

• Paraphernalia Live performance and Custom HID sound tools (2015-9)
• Error_in_Time() Live Code Poetry performance Art of Hacking Netherlands New Media Art institute, and Transmediale (2014-5)
• The Feminist Server Stack Networked performance, Transmediale (2015).
• Divination Divination (2016) DarkMofo MONA Museum New and Old Art Tasmania
• CyberFeminst Bedsheet Transfigured 2018 - 2019 in collaboration with Linda Dement.

Selected Curatorial work

• encoding_experience/10_October_2008_18:00_EST.* Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmania 2008.
• TacticalMagick.net Networked Art Forms: Tactical Magick Faerie Circuits, 2013.
• Microbites.me Microbites of Innovation. Art Track ACM Creativity and Cognition, 2017.
• Internet Lore Asia Writing for the Internet: Internet lore in Asia. Asia Research Institute, 2018.
• Vvitchvvave Post Digital Aesthetics Symposium and Exhibition, Siteworks, 2019.

Selected publications

• Mauro-Flude, Nancy (2019), "Performing The Internet", Post Digital Folklore, Digital Humanities and Scholarly Research Trends in the Asia-Pacific, Pen:IGI-Global.

• Mauro-Flude, Nancy (2015) "Don’t mess with my settings", AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 8.

• Mauro-Flude, Nancy (2016) "Divine Trash Strata", Unlikely: Journal for Creative Arts Issue 2, University of Melbourne.

• Mauro-Flude, Nancy (2016) "Paraphernalia A Design Approach for Electronic-Performance Tools", Leonardo MIT Volume 48, 3. June 2015.

• Mauro-Flude, Nancy (2015) "The Intimacy of the Command Line", Scan | Journal of Media Arts Culture Volume 10, 2. 2013.

Selected interviews

• Alana Hunt, Activating the textures of Post-Digital Aesthetics A conversation with Nancy Mauro-Flude, Tom Penney [1], 28 February 2019.

• Leandro Palacio, "Coding technology for a eulogy to Tasmanian elder. Valetudo", 2013. Video.

• Ragna Rök Jóns, Is the 4th wave of feminism digital? [2], August 19, 2013.

• Kendall Grady, you will _KNOW how_ : an interview with Nancy Mauro-Flude, 31 Oct 2011.

Links

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