[spectre] ICA / London / This Friday Salon: Machine Divas: The Archive

[Diana McCarty]

Hi Spectre,

Just a quick note to let those of you in London know that
Kathy Rae Huffman will be presenting her new addition to the Goldsmith
Library this Friday! She will be in discussion with me at the ICA! It
would be great to see old friends and new! Of course, you all should
be interested in the actual collection as well! Fabulous work by
Student Forum member Dimitra Gkitsa in putting this event together!

All the best,

Diana


ICA / London
1 May 2015 / 15:00

https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/friday-salon-machine-divas-archive

This Friday Salon aims to investigate feminist media art practices
through documentation of pre-internet, early net art and media art,
examining the ways in which new media, technology and mass digital
culture interact with the human body and its expressions, or
constructions, of identity.

Based on the Kathy Rae Huffman media art library, a book collection
that was recently donated to Goldsmiths Library, this open discussion
will be accompanied by a display of rare media art catalogues and
monographs that bring together contemporary pioneering feminist media
art practices from the late 80s to the present. The conversation will
be followed by a screening of Max Almy's Leaving the 20th Century
(1982, 11 mins).

Kathy Rae Huffman will be in conversation with Diana McCarty.

Kathy Rae Huffman is a curator, writer and networker working
internationally, based in Berlin and Southern California, with a
special focus on issues concerning the history and development of
media art including women's Internet art and environments. She has
been active in the field of media art since the early 1980s. As chief
curator of the Long Beach Museum of Art in California from 1979-1984,
she established LBMA Video, a multimedia workshop and broadcast
quality post-production facility for artists. Among other positions,
she was curator/producer of the Contemporary Art Television (CAT)
Fund, a partnership between the ICA Boston and the WBGH New Television
Workshop, Visual Arts Director at the Cornerhouse Contemporary Art
Center (Manchester), Associate Professor of Electronic Arts at the
Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York.

Diana McCarty is a media producer based in Berlin who has worked with
interdisciplinary projects since 1988, addressing gender, art and
politics of media. Her work with emergent media has led to influential
initiatives such as Nettime, early hack labs and social software
projects. She is the co-founder of Reboot.fm, Radia.fm, Prologue: [New
Europe, New Feminism] and Faces, a network for women artists,
designers and programmers. McCarty's projects have been featured in
international media such as The Wire, Style, Liberation, the French
and German television culture program, Arte and National German Radio,
as well as other media across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.

In collaboration with Goldsmiths Library.

This event has been curated by Student Forum member Dimitra Gkitsa.