*************************************************************** 1st CYBERFEMINIST INTERNATIONALMedia ReleaseSaturday, September 27th, 1997 For immediate release The 1st CYBERFEMINIST INTERNATIONAL, Kassel, Sept 21 - 28, 1997, was organized by the Old Boys Network. The Hybrid WorkSpace is a project of the Berlin Biennale and documenta X and has been hold at the Orangerie in Kassel. It has run for the duration of the documenta X and has presented eleven residences of groups working with media, the internet, culture and politics - invited by Pit Schultz and Geert Lovink. The cyberfeminist residency is the final block. For eight days this cross-cultural meeting of women has taken place at the 1st CYBERFEMINIST INTERNATIONAL and discussed, debated, workshopped and made presentations. They immersed themselves in technology, politics, theories, working on forms of representation - getting more than just their hands and keyboards dirty. This diverse group of over thirty women has very different backgrounds - from programmers to web mistresses, from artists to theorists, from networkers to geeks and floating in between. Within the context of the world's largest art exhibition, documenta, they are developing viral forms of art technologies. The 1st CYBERFEMINIST INTERNATIONAL sends these binary digits as fresh living data to the press now: The 1st CYBERFEMINIST INTERNATIONAL is spreading like an unknown virus through the worldwide communication lines. Its movement is the infiltration. The 1st CYBERFEMINIST INTERNATIONAL slips through the traps of definition with different attitudes towards art, culture, theory, politics, communication and technology - the terrain of the internet. The 1st CYBERFEMINIST INTERNATIONAL is not only a state of mind but the state-of-the-art of media technologies, that is hard-, soft- and mindware. The 1st CYBERFEMINIST INTERNATIONAL is no institution and will transform every infected institution into a cyberfeminist interface. The 1st CYBERFEMINIST INTERNATIONAL will spread information about the net behind the net, about net-grammars in business and politics, strategies in communication and networking, translating code into strategies and strategies into code. The 1st CYBERFEMINIST INTERNATIONAL is the infectious agent of the post-art technological species. The 1st CYBERFEMINIST INTERNATIONAL is epidemic, is a medium, is so sexy, has emerged by popular demand. Download now! For more information see the Old Boys Network website, http://www.icf.de/obn. List of participants
Babeth, Amsterdam Ulrike Bergermann, Hamburg Josephine Bosma, Amsterdam Shu Lea Cheang, New York Vali Djordjevic, Berlin Marina Grzinic, Japan Sabine Helmers, Berlin Kathy Rae Huffman, Wien Margarethe Jahrmann, Wien Vesna Jankovic, Zagreb Verena Kuni, Frankfurt Vesna Manojlovic, Belgrade Nikolina Manojlovic, Zagreb Diana McCarty, Budapest Alla Mitrofanova, St. Petersburg Ingrid Molnar, Hamburg/Wien Mathilde Mupe, Amsterdam Ellen Nonnenmacher, Berlin Helene von Oldenburg, Rastede Daniela Alina Plewe, Berlin Corrine Petrus, Rotterdam Julianne Pierce, Sydney Claudia Reiche, Hamburg Tamara Rouw, Amsterdam Rasa Smite, Riga Cornelia Sollfrank, Berlin/Hamburg Debra Solomon, Amsterdam Josephine Starrs, Sydney Barbara Strebel, Basel Rena Tangens, Bielefeld Gudrun Teich, Dsseldorf Kerstin Weiberg, Berlin Faith Wilding, Pittsburgh Eva Wohlgemuth, Wien Ina Wudtke, Berlin Olga Egerova, St. Petersburg Natalja Pershina, St. Petersburg *************************************************************** |