Seminar
Columbia University School of the Arts
Spring 2004

Net Art Session 8: Monday, March 15, 2004

Topic

Identities: Race, Gender and the Body in Cyberspace

Class Plan

+ Presentations
+ Discuss readings
+ Critique mid-term projects

Relevant Sites

+ Old Boys' Network: http://www.obn.org
+ "Blackness for Sale" by Keith Townsend Obadike: http://obadike.tripod.com/ebay.html
+ "Important Artist Demographics for Sale" by Jeff Gates: http://www.outtacontext.com/ebay/ebay.html
+ "Bindigirl" by Prema Murthy: http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=436&;text=1459#1459

Required Readings

+ Coco Fusco: "All Too Real: The Tale of an On-Line Black Sale" - Available as class file.

+ Cornelia Sollfrank: "The Truth about Cyberfeminism" - Available as class file.

+ Women, Art, and Technology, edited by Judy Malloy and Pat Bentson - Available in course packet.

Zoë Sofia“ Contested Zones: Futurity and Technological Art” (pp. 503 – 522)

+ Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual History, edited by Darren Tofts, Annemarie Jonson and Alessio Cavallaro. Available in course packet.

VNS Matrix: The Cyberfeminist Manifesto (p. 206)              

+ Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life, edited by Alondra Nelson and Thuy Linh N. Tu
Available in course packet.

Mimi Nguyen: Tales of an Asiatic Geek Girl: Slant from Paper to Pixels (pp. 177 – 190)
Guillermo Gómez-Peña: The Virtual Barrio @ the Other Frontier (pp. 191 - 198)

Recommended Readings

+ Rosi Braidotti: "Cyberfeminism with a Difference"

+ Cornelia Sollfrank: "Not Every Hacker is a Woman"

+ Alex Galloway: "A Report on Cyberfeminism" - Also available as class file.

Files

+ Alex Galloway: "A Report on Cyberfeminism"
+ Coco Fusco: "All Too Real--The Tale of an Online Black Sale"
+ Coco Fusco: "All Too Real: The Tale of an Online Black Sale" (.rtf document)
+ Rosi Braidotti: "Cyberfeminism with a Difference"

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