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Next Cyberfeminist International next Cyberfeminist International 04 Cornelia Sollfrank and Yvonne Volkart Editorial 06 Old Boys in Rotterdam 10 Call for Papers 12 Alla Mitrofanova How to become a Cyberfeminist 13 Caroline Bassett A Manifesto against Manifestos 17 Irina Aristarkhova Hosting the other: Cyberfeminist strategies for net-communities 22 Faith Wilding and Maria Fernandez Feminism, Difference, and global Capital 25 Claudia Reiche Bio(r)Evolution™ 32 Pam Skelton Questions of Identities 36 Ursula Biemann Performing the border 41 Cornelia Sollfrank Women hackers 46 Cornelia Sollfrank Guide to Geek Girls 49 Barbara Thoens Linux and the freesoftware philosophy 54 Stephanie Wehner Privacy and security on the net 59 Corrine Petrus, Marieke van Santen Hacking from a technical point of view 61 Yvonne Volkart Infobiobodies: art and esthetic strategies in the new world order 69 Verena Kuni The Art of Performing Cyberfeminism 73 Nat Muller Suggestions for good cyberfem (house)- keeping: or how to party with the hyperlink 77 Helene von Oldenburg Cyberbug. Browsing the brain 80 Maren Hartmann The unknown artificial metaphor or: the difficult process of creation or destruction 86 Mare Tralla Cybertides of feminisms in conversation with Iliyana Nedkova 91 Marina Grzinic Cyberbodies 2--or more stories about the political of the cyberspace 94 Claudia Reiche Dandy Dust 98 Rachel Baker Business plan for art of work 100 Susanne Ackers Cyberspace is empty -- Who's afraid of avatars? 104 Biografical Notes editor: Cornelia Sollfrank url: www.obn.org Old Boys Network mailorder: www.obn.org/reader published by: obn, September 1999 snail mail: obn, Eppendorfer Weg 8 design/layout: Cornelia Sollfrank D-20259 Hamburg copyright: the authors cover icons: Irena Woelle, Mare contact: [email protected] Tralla, Lee Bull, Mariko printed by: Hein&Co, Hamburg Mori, Name Diffusion contents 03 In March 1999 the "Next Cyberfeminist International" took place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It was the second big international meeting of cyberfeminists and came together thanks to the initiative of Corrine Petrus from TechWomen, Rotterdam. She had invited the Old Boys Network (www.obn.org), the first international cyberfeminist organisation, to workout the concept for the conference, and provided local support. The "Next Cyberfeminist International" (www.obn.org/nCI) was a follow-up to the "First Cyberfeminist International" which OBN organized in 1997 at the Hybrid Workspace at documenta X, and 23 women from 8 different countries came to publically present and discuss their work related to Cyberfeminism. The date of this conference had been synchronised with next5minutes, the con- ference for tactical media in Amsterdam (www.n5m.org). n5m started directly after our conference and had also a cyberfeminist section in the program, where OBN was invited to present its work. As for the First Cyberfeminist International, we were seeking women who were interested in contextualizing themselves in the framework of Cyberfeminism at the Rotterdam conference. But this time we suggested certain topics which we felt were crucial to the discussion of Cyberfeminism. The first day began with short introductions and overviews referring to the history and current positions of Cyberfeminism, and the second day was devoted to the subject of "Women Hackers". Both hacking itself and the paucity of women hackers were the star- ting points for the discussion. We focussed on hacking as a way of life, an atti- tude, a metaphor about subverting the assets of the information age, and hacking, a myth generated and performed by men for men. We looked at the actual practice of hacking and discussed how cyberfeminists can test and appropriate this practice for their purposes. The raising of questions of gender in the information age was addressed on the third day with the title "Split Bodies and Fluid Gender: the Cutting Edge of Information Technology--(between scientific and artistic visions). It was about different theoretical and artistic approaches towards the hype, the threat and the potential of 'information technology' cutting into the roots of cultural tradi- tion. The last day, under the title "Feminist Activism/ Resistance/Intervention/ Globa-lism" started by assessing the changed political and cultural conditions in the information age that stand under the banner of pancapitalism. This section sought to formulate and present engaged, critical and utopian theories, practices and possibilities of action in today's world in which the ascendancy of the virtual seems to invalidate "real" interventions and positions. Due to the short time we were able to devote to the topic, this session was more of a starting point for a discussion which has to be reformulated and intensified, rather than the summing up of the conference proceedings in order to formula- te concrete strategies. Just as at the conference, this reader intends to continue collecting a range of different approaches and methods, rather than seeking a homogeneous cyber- feminist stand with respect to these different fields. We know that in our con- tinuing work we have to relate all these topics and methods to the question of Cyberfeminism, and to develop, with regard to our dissent, common issues and editorial strategies. We would like to discuss the differences between, for example, a genderspecific techno-criticism and a cyberfeminist point of view. What are the special advantages and qualities of being a cyberfeminist, or of qualifying something as cyberfeminist? What is a useful politics of representation if the term "representation" becomes problematic? Who are the people who can 04 identify with Cyberfeminism and how has this term to be reformulated Who is OBN? to embrace human beings within broad and various contexts? How do they do--what exactly? At this point we would like to emphasize the term "New The Old Boys Network was founded in Cyberfeminism", since the subtitle of the conference was "Strategies for Berlin in spring 1997. OBN consists of a a New Cyberfeminism" or "Discourses of the New Cyberfeminism". The core-group of currently 8 women, who proposal for a "new" Cyberfeminism sprang from our need to distinguish take responsibility for administative and ourselves from the first generation of cyberfeminists who coined the organisational tasks, and a worldwide term in a way we found too narrow. This is why we made and are still network of associated members. The making vigorous efforts to free Cyberfeminism from its old attributes in core-group members are Susanne order to make it a useful and operational tool for all kinds of new Ackers, Faith Wilding, Julianne Pierce, utopias. Claudia Reiche, Helene von Oldenburg, Verena Kuni, Yvonne Volkart and To this participant the conference clearly showed that in addition to Cornelia Sollfrank. merely bringing together positions, subjects and agents who call them- selves cyberfeminists or say that they practice Cyberfeminism, it is OBN is dedicated to appropriating, crea- imperative that we are precise in our formulation of common dissent. ting and disseminating Cyber- Cyberfeminism is ( to a greater degree than the term feminism was or feminism. Our concern is to build real its offspring postfeminism or gender studies are) a speculation, a myth, and virtual spaces in which cyberfemi- a utopian idea,and a strategic construction. It is above all a discourse nists can research, experiment, commu- of feminist stubborness in the posthuman age of global information and nicate and act. These activities aim to bio technologies. What we have in common first of all is a belief in the provide a contextualized presence for viability of this faith, which we attempt to anchor in the reality and in different and interdisciplinary approa- our daily lifes. And since Cyberfeminism, like feminism, is a politically- ches to Cyberfeminism. motivated, anti-phallogocentric idea, we need to formulate and marshal our understanding of politics in a more concrete way than we One of the basic rules of OBN is that have done until now. We believe that Cyberfeminism, incorporating as every member is required to call herself it does the notion of diversity, is very much an issue of our time, a time a woman (without consideration of the of post-humanism and ongoing virtualisation in which words like sub- biological base of this intelligent life- jectivity, identity, sex/gender, representation, agency, policy and form). With regard to the content--the discourse are undergoing redefinition. These terms are not obsolete, elaborations of 'Cyber-feminisms'--our having served a useful purpose in embodied lives like our own; but they aim is to pursue the politics of dissent. If need to be re-constructed and acted upon again and again. Unlike you wish to find out more about the approaches which assume that female resistance is already happening regulating structure of OBN and the spe- unconsciously in unknown, uncontrollable spaces, we insist on the idea cial operational conditions which make of aware responsibility, reflection and of engaged motivation and inten- this transitory group work the way it tion. But we know very well, that real effects may be far beyond sub- does, please jective intention or even issues of traditional subjectivity. This is what visit our site at: we will work on in future and why we are building a network for and of www.obn.org/we/index.html similar and differing cyberfeminist approaches: our aim is to create pleasurable ways and means of resistance, and we intend to do it with the collaboration of our sisters ;-) Yvonne Volkart and Cornelia Sollfrank, OBN, August 1999 Thanks to: The "Next Cyberfeminist International" was an autonomous event which was made possible through the support of TechWomen, Rotterdam, Goethe Institut, Rotterdam, Senat der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg/ Senatsamt für die Gleichstellung und Frauenreferat der Kulturbehörde, Mama Cash, Pro Helvetia, DE UNIE, Rotterdam, and next5minutes, Amsterdam. Special thanks to Ingrid Hoofd for the coordination with n5m, Gudrun Teich for editing and presenting the video documentation of the First Cyberfeminist International in Rotterdam; and very special thanks to Tina Horne and David Hudson for editing.
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