Subject: The Panel is Open
From: Judy Malloy (jmalloy@well.com)
Date: Tue Aug 10 1999 - 12:50:58 CDT
Hello everyone,
New on http://www.artswire.org/jmalloy/identity/panel.html --
GENDER IDENTITY INNEW MEDIA:
Brenda Laurel writes: "You may know that I founded a company called
Purple Moon to make computer games for little girls. I've been in the
computer game business for about 22 years. I think I got into doing
games for girls because I was so tired of seeing things explode....."
Ann Powers notes (in response to Rob Milthorp's words) that "breakthrough
developments in technology are explorations...", and in response to Anne
Powers, Anne-Marie Schleiner wonders "....Are women, (or female men),
who have been traditionally socialized to think in a less rational,
less linear manner(just as men have been gendered to know more for
example, about how cars work, clunky mechanical era objects) more
qualified (not inherently but culturally) to
enter into the Information Age?..."
In response to Dawn Mercedes, the moderator notes the differences between
some earlier works -- Nancy Paterson's Hair Salon TV and Jill Scott's
Paradise Tossed and some more recent works: Tina LaPorte's Translate { }
Expression and Nancy's Stock Market Skirt, for example, and I ask for
current examples of feminist approaches.
In response to Pamela Z, Pauline Oliveros writes that "There is still a
lock out as far as technology is concerned. I was just looking at the
CNMAT web site.There are very few women mentioned on that
site devoted to new technology. This is only one example of a multitude
concerned with technology. Women are definitely programmed away from
technology and yet the field needs the input and participation of women
for balance. "
In the Icebreaker, Andrea Polli documents the work of Ellen Sandor,
Founding Artist and Director, (art)n Laboratory; Aviva Rahmani
talks about what it was like to work with engineers at Bell labs in 1966;
and Sonya Rapoport documents the evolution of her interactive
installation Shoe-Field.
In Open Forum, Dorothea Jones asks for input "....Many more men than
women have personal Web pages - is that just down to access to the
technology and interest in developing the skills, or do other factors
come into play?...."
And there is much more!
Please visit http://www.artswire.org/jmalloy/identity/panel.html
to read the words of others and add your own words.
To make the structure more apparent, an index now comes up on the top
page.
Best,
Judy Malloy
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