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very cyberfeminist international obn conference hamburg, december 13–16, 2001 To cyberfeminism in 1 easy step: Just try! Eds. Helene von Oldenburg, Claudia Reiche very cyber- feminist international reader obn conference hamburg, december 13–16, 2001 Eds. Helene von Oldenburg, Claudia Reiche credits very cyberfeminist international, obn conference hamburg, december 13–16, 2001 Helene von Oldenburg, Claudia Reiche, Eds. ISBN: 3-933557-34-8 Published by: b-books, Berlin Design: baxdesign: [email protected], Alexandra Bialas:[email protected] Print: Hein & Co, Hamburg © 2002 the authors All rights reserved. European Cooperation (organizing and editing): CONSTANT vzw Vereniging voor kunst en media ( Brussels, BE) Les Pénélopes (Paris, F) MAKE, the organisation for women in the arts, formerly WAL, the Women’s Art Library, London (London, GB) Association: "Cyberfem Spirit - Spirit of Data", Exhibition, November 30, 2001 – Januar 13, 2002, Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg Concept: Helene von Oldenburg Curated by: Rosanne Altstatt und Helene von Oldenburg http://www.edith-russ-haus.de "technics of cyber<>feminism <mode=message>'', Theory Lab, December 7 – 9, 2001, Frauen.Kultur.Labor thealit, Claudia Reiche, Andrea Sick, Bremen, http://www.thealit.de Publication Series (volume 1-3) von Oldenburg, Helene / Altstatt, Rosanne, Eds. (2002): cyberfem spirit-spirit of data, Oldenburg, Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, (Volume 1), order: info@edith- russ-haus.de Reiche, Claudia / Sick, Andrea, Eds. (2002): technics of cyber<>feminism <mode=message>, Bremen, thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor, (Volume 2) ISBN 3- 930924-03-X, order: [email protected] von Oldenburg, Helene / Reiche, Claudia, Eds. (2002): very cyberfeminist interna- tional, b_books, Berlin, (Volume 3) ISBN 3-933557-34-8, order: [email protected] Thanks Brigitte Helbling, Agnese Trocchi, Andrea Sick, Althea Greenan, Anja Westerfrölke, Bianka Buchen, Die Höge, Dolores Castro Ruiz, Ceri Hand, Faith Wilding, Frauke Behrendt, Christian Günther, Isabelle Massu, Ingrid Molnar, Jill Scott, Kaya Sievers, Katrina Crookall, Laurence Rassel, Nana Petzet, Neda Ploskov, Peter Birke, Rosanne Altstatt, Susanna Paasonen, Susanne Ackers, Tahani Nadim, Techno Trickster, Torsten Flüh, Ulla Otto, Universität Lüneburg. Funding: With the support of the Culture 2000 programmme of the European Union, Directorate General Education and Culture Kulturbehörde der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg #2 content #4 . Editorial #59ƒ . ƒ(start) ƒ(shut) ƒ(stop) #6 . Call for proposal/abstracts ƒƒ(open) = new border concepts #8 . Views of the Conference, #60 . Cindy Gabriela Flores | Photos by Linda Putzenhardt "The women's place in the Mexico City subway. #14 . Waltraud Schwab | #63 . Cindy Gabriela Flores | Comments The gate to the unveiled world #64 . Corinna Bath, Uli Peter, Claude Draude, Jutta Weber, Alice Gössner | #15 . net working, TechnoTricksterTank™4Today knot working, not working #66 . Irina Aristharkova, Maria Fernandez, #16 . Old Boys Network | 3 questions Margaret Tan, Faith Wilding and subRosa mem- bers Steffi Domike, Laleh Mehran, Christina Hung, #17 . Old Boys Network Hyla Willis, and Lucia Sommer | 0000000011111 #18 . Frauen.Kultur.Labor thealit 111100000000011111110000000011111111 #19 . Les Pénélopes #70 . Andrea Hapke, Andrea Jana Korb | #20 . constant vzw Travelling hostesses in cyberfemspace. #21 . MAKE #74 . Christina Goestl | s.EXE #22 . plug in #78 . Susanna Paasonen | Cyber- #23 . subRosa feminism and the question of freedom #24 . Les Chiennes de Garde #82 . Jill Scott | BIO-MEDIA ETHICS – #25 . Feminist Indymedia Austria #84 . .Neotropic, Donna Neda | #26 . bildwechsel WE DEFINITELY KNOW WHAT A SCRATCH IS! #27 . KünstlerinnenArchiv #28 . Faces #87 . .borders of ‘terror’ - #29 . Gender Changer Academy media– and war techniques #88 . Ariane Brenssell, Waltraud Schwab | #30 . The Posters »No Accomplices« #92 . Nina Stuhldreher | »I Am A Programme« #31 . Rena Tangens, Barbara Thöns #94 . Nasya Bahfen | #32 . Virtuella The Taliban dating agency #33 . bildwechsel #98 . RAWA Statement on International #34 . Nathalie Magnan Women's Day, Mar. 8, 2002* #35 . vns Matrix #104 . RAWA | Some of the restrictions imposed #36 . Ulrike Bergermann by Taliban on women in Afghanistan #37 . Nana Petzet #38 . Andrea Sick #107 . obn's principle of #39 . Janine Sack disagreement #40 . Claudia Reiche #108 . Cornelia Sollfrank | #41 . Gender Changer Academy The Final Truth about Cyberfeminism #42 . Elisabeth Strowick #114 . Claudia Reiche | Disagreement with Cornelia Sollfrank’s #43 . Christina Goestl ‘The Final Truth about Cyberfeminism’ #44 . Verena Kuni #118 . Helene von Oldenburg | #45 . Desiree Vreke | Enawa OBN – A Fiction and/or the real thing? #46 . Natalie Bookchin #120 . .Verena Kuni | #47 . Techno-Trickster-Tank™ Some Thoughts On The #48 . Galerie Helga Broll New Economy of Networking #49 . Rosanne Altstatt #128 . Janine Sack | The very video #50 . Laurence Rassel #129 . Claudia Kapp | on/from the con- ference ‘very cyberfeminist international’ #51 . Britta Bonifacius #130 . contributors #52 . Ursula Biemann #53 . Cornelia Sollfrank #54 . Jill Scott #55 . Cindy Gabriela Flores #56 . Helene von Oldenburg #57 . Ania Corcilius #3 #58 . Les Pénélopes editorial We have become aware of the ways in which cyberfeminism has become an influence within discursive fields of gender studies, media the- ory, political theory and action, concepts in art etc. and hope to contribute to the rise of cyber- feminist works and studies. Cyberfeminism is not merely enacted in these regions, the input of cyberfeminism alters the fields themselves and affects our attempt to map them and our activities within them. The term cyberfeminism literally means ‘feminism in relation to digital media’. As you will see in these articles, cyber- feminism is many things to many people, and we will not attempt to give a concise definition of it here. The volume should serve as an initial orienta- tion within the diverse territory of cyberfemi- nism. The field is still in the process of defining itself, as is proper for any new discipline. The articles in this collection, although widely divergent in areas of inquiry, all mark areas where cyberfeminism has altered or undermi- ned the basis of disciplinary practices and cul- tural analysis. This reader is the extended product of the conference ‘very cyberfeminist international’ held in Hamburg 2001 by OBN. The principal organizers were Claudia Reiche, Cornelia 1Publication Series (volume 1-3): von Oldenburg, Helene / Altstatt, Rosanne, Eds. (2002): cyberfem spirit - spirit of data, Oldenburg, Edith-Ruß-Haus #4 für Medienkunst, (Volume 1), order: [email protected]; Reiche, Claudia / Sick, Andrea, Eds. (2002): technics of cyber<>feminism <mode=message>, Bremen, thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor, (Volume 2) ISBN 3-930924-03-X, order: thea- [email protected]; von Oldenburg, Helene / Reiche, Claudia, Eds. (2002): very cyber- feminist international, obn conference, hamburg, december 13–16, 2001, Berlin, b_books, (Volume 3) ISBN 3-933557-34-8, order: [email protected]. editorial Sollfrank, Helene von Oldenburg, Verena Kuni. European partners in organizing and editing are in Belgium ‘CONSTANT vzw Vereniging voor kunst en media’ (Laurence Rassel), in France ‘Les Pénélopes’ (Isabelle Massu), in the United Kingdom ‘MAKE, the organisation for women in the arts, formerly The Women’s Art Library, London’ (Althea Greenan, Katrina Crookall, Tahani Nadim). Starting out as a documentation of the ‘very cyberfeminist international’ conference we have decided to include several new texts that were not presented at the conference in Hamburg, in order to broaden certain subjects. In the first section, ‘networking – knot working – not working?’, you will find selfrepre- sentations of networks, initiatives and institutions somehow or other alerting the reader to categories and concepts of networking. In the following section ‘ƒstart) ƒ(shut) ƒ(stop) ƒ(open) = new border concepts’, essays provide various aspects of borders, between media and users, between wishes and facts, science and fiction, between today and tomorrow – dealing with, defining or researching problems and/or promises. With the section ‘the borders of terror – media- and war techniques’ we focussed on the changes in global politics and war techniques triggered by the events of September 11 last year, concentrating on their consequences for women. For OBN crisis voyeurs we recommend the final section ‘obn’s principle of disagree- ment’. The selection of cyberfeminists included in this reader is, obviously, far from compre- hensive. For additional reading and information see the catalogue of the exhibition ‘cyberfem spirit – spirit of data’ at the Edith Russ Site for Media Art in Oldenburg and the book ‘technics of cyber<>feminism <mode=message>’, continuing the work of the Thealit lab on cyberfeminist theory.1 Thanks to the contributors! Helene von Oldenburg, Claudia Reiche #5 Call for proposals/abstracts #1 Call for form the relations of power as well as the dynamics of vari- proposals/abstracts able temporal and spatial functions. 04.09.2001 CYBERFEMINISM is no game without borders, but a playing with borders that takes them seriously, a work at the boun- daries of that 'contested zone' in which the so-called real and ‘very cyberfeminist virtual diverge, and which mines utopias of transgression, international', understanding them as a potential for transformation. If hamburg 2001 CYBERFEMINISM is also a utopia, then its utopian designs can be fictions as well as specific