we are the virus of the new world disorder

September 26, 2016 8:26 PM

CyberFeminism in the 90s and An Oral History of the First Cyberfeminists chronicle a wave of multimedia art that spun out of Australia's VNS Matrix, creators of the CyberFeminist Manifesto and All New Gen, a CD ROM game where "Female ‹cybersluts› and ‹guerrillas,› ‹anarcho cyber-terrorists› infiltrate cyberspace and hack into the controls and databanks of Big Daddy Mainframe, the Oedipal man". (Most links NSFW).
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants (6 comments total)

Not to be confused, I take it, with cyborg feminism.
posted by grobstein at 8:29 PM on September 26, 2016

Nah, cyborg feminism is pretty close, and the article cites Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto.
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 8:35 PM on September 26, 2016 [2 favorites]

I wish I had been cool/connected enough to be into this when it happened :(
posted by emjaybee at 12:27 PM on September 27, 2016

I think I did some of the initial coding on that, sitting at a PowerMac in a corner of Josie's lounge room while they gently or sharply, depending on the individual, dealt with my naïveté and gormlessness. I was defeated on that project by Director's white flash, which a more determined coder eventually tamed.
posted by hifimofo at 8:56 PM on September 27, 2016 [1 favorite]

Reminded me of another 90s feminist electronic artist: Nato.0+55+3d
posted by a lungful of dragon at 10:47 AM on September 28, 2016 [1 favorite]

@hifimofo
a PowerMac in a corner of Josie's lounge room..

For an excited moment I thought you meant Linda Dement's aunt Josie, my mother not-in-law.

close, but different Josies.

The power mac from that Joise's lounge room was the happy instrument for the first communication between my partner and I 20 years ago.

early in my welcome to the family that josie gave me a copy of cyberflesh girlmonster
posted by compound eye at 4:52 AM on September 29, 2016 [1 favorite]