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it is also meant to be an additional resource of information and recommended reading for my students of the prehystories of new media class that i teach at the school of the art institute of chicago in fall 2008.

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2011-03-09

celebrating the 100th international women's day - 100 female artists and digital media

(i originally posted this list on p/art//icles before)

This project was done on March 8th, 2011, the 100th anniversary of the International Women's Day. Throughout the day I had been posting female artists working in the field of New Media Art to twitter and facebook. The goal was to post 100 artists for the 100th anniversary.

a short notice:
A few of the artists included might or might not be women. After 100 years of the celebration of International Women's Day what it means to be female has to be expanded and embrace gender rather than sex.

This list of 100+ female media artists is necessarily incomplete, please add more artists in the comments field! (the focus here is on artists + digital media; curators, theoreticians,... will be the focus of a separate project)
There is absolutely no intended order in this list. The entries on top were the last ones, the entries on the bottom of the list the starting points.


enjoy!


START: 11.12 am
END: 11:08 pm
March 8th, 2011



nina wenhart • 11:08 PM • Twitter
ninjafx: #IWD11 female artists & digital media: via @notendo: #IWD11 - Tina Frank + Billy Roisz + Tali Hinkis + Kaffe Matthews + Chicks On Speed

nina wenhart • 10:59 PM • Twitter
ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: compilation of 100 artists for #IWD's 100th birthday - completed (though there are many more...

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Brenda Laurel #virtualreality #interactiveart http://www.tauzero.com/Brenda_Laurel/

ninjafx: #IWD11 these were 99 now, if i counted right

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Sabrina Raaf #interactiveart http://www.raaf.org/about.php

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Cynthia Breazeal #robotics #roboticsqueen http://web.media.mit.edu/~cynthiab/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Pattie Maes #netart #interactiveart http://web.media.mit.edu/~pattie/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Francoise Gamma #digitalgraphics #animatedgifs #netart http://francoisegamma.computersclub.org/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Krystal South #videoart #webart http://www.krystalsouth.com/

ninjafx: #IDW11 - female artists & digital media: RT @nullsleep: (part 2) @PrintedCircuit Raquel Meyers, Lesley Flanigan, Marina Zurkow

ninjafx: #IDW11 - female artists & digital media: RT @nullsleep: (part 1) @artfagcity @kiostark @SimonaLodi

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Sabrina Ratte #videoart vimeo.com/sabrinaratte

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Laura Parnes #videoart www.lauraparnes.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Camilla Padgitt-Coles #VJ #electronicmusic vimeo.com/ivymeadows

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Alexandria McCrosky #digitalgraphics http://alexandriamccrosky.computersclub.org/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Aurora Halal #videoartist #electronicmusic http://www.aurorahalal.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Alexandra Gorczynski #videoart http://hologramcity.blogspot.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Bea Fremderman & Jeanette Hayes #netart http://justshutty.tumblr.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Alice Cohen #videoart http://vimeo.com/user1658854/videos

ninjafx: #IWD11 - @look_im_lucid (lindsay howard) just sent a great list with female media artists, so the following posts are all lindsay's input

ninjafx: RT @nullsleep: @ninjafx here are some more • @petcortright @BiellaColeman @LaurelHalo @juliaxgulia Alexandra Gorczynski, Laura Brothers,...

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: via @chrissugrue (part 2) Simone Jones, Clara Boj, Geraldine Juarez, Becky Stern, Jackee Steck

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: via @chrissugrue (part 1) Karolina Sobecka, Addie Wagenknech, Kaho Abe, Grisha Coleman

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Laurel Halo #digitalgraphics #netart http://www.laurelhalo.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Petra Cortright #netart #digitalgraphics http://petracortright.com/ @petcortright

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Rachelle Viader-Knowles #interactiveart http://uregina.ca/rvk/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Sabine Seymour #wearabletechnology http://www.fashionabletechnology.org/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Margarita Benitez #wearabletechnology http://margaritabenitez.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Sage Keeler #netart #digitalgraphics http://fourmegabytememorylane.blogspot.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Jennifer Chan #videoart #digitalgraphics http://www.jennifer-chan.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 these were about 60+ female media artists now, for the 100th birthday 100 artists would be great. any more suggestions from anyone?

ninjafx: RT @robmyers: @ninjafx: Tessa Elliot http://surgerydar.co.uk/ & Tracey Matthieson http://ur1.ca/3fcc5 got me into digital art && are...

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Ellen Sandor #mixedmedia http://www.artn.com/Ellen_Sandor

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Claudia Hart #3dcomputergraphics #artgames http://www.claudiahart.com

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Nina Valkanova #programmer #interactiveart http://ninavalkanova.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Gabi Kepplinger of Stadtwerkstatt #netart #networkedart #artinpublicspace...http://www.stwst.at/index.php?m=6&sm=1&sid=51

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Eva Grubinger #netart #networkedart http://www.evagrubinger.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Thecla Schiphorst #interactiveart #performance http://www.sfu.ca/~tschipho/

ninjafx: RT @tw1tt3rart: #INTERNATIONALWOMENSDAY ♀╭━╮╱╭━╮╱╭━╮╱╭━╮♀ ♀┃╱┃╱┃╱┃╱┃╱┃╱┃╱┃♀ ♀╰┳╯╱╰┳╯╱╰┳╯╱╰┳╯♀ ♀━╋━╱━╋━╱━╋━╱━╋━♀ ♀╱┃╱╱╱┃╱╱╱┃╱╱╱┃╱♀...

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Lindsay Howard #netart #curating #digitalgraphics http://ow.ly/4ajmI http://ow.ly/4ajn0...

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Sara Ludy #netart #digitalgraphics #videoart http://www.saraludy.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Eva Wohlgemuth, Kathy Rae Huffman #netart http://ow.ly/4aj4S + http://ow.ly/4aj6s

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Helen Thorington, Jo-Anne Green #netart #radioart #pioneers http://turbulence.org/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Tina Auer of Time's Up #interactiveart www.timesup.org

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Jessica Westbrook #interactiveart #videoart http://www.jessicawestbrook.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Faith Wilding #cyberfeminism #performanceart http://faithwilding.refugia.net/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Tiffany Holmes #interactiveart http://tiffanyholmes.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Marta de Menezes #bioart http://www.martademenezes.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Manu Luksch #cctv #hacktivism #videoart http://www.manuluksch.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Isabella Bordoni #electronicmusic http://www.ib-arts.org/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Heidi Grundmann #artradio #radioart http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/grundmannbio.html

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Elisa Rose of Station Rose #netart #electronicmusic http://www.stationrose.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Agnese Trocchi #netart #videoart http://www.newmacchina.info/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female m artists & digital media: Jill Scott #interactiveart #videoart #body http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/artist/scott/biography/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Melinda Rackham #netart http://www.subtle.net/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Ruth Catlow #netart #artinpublicspace @furtherfield http://ow.ly/4agBQ

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Margarethe Jahrmann "nybble engine toolZ" #gameart http://www.climax.at/nybble-engine/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Monica Panzarino #interactiveart #videoart http://www.monicapanzarino.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Melissa Barron #hacking #obsoletemedia www.melissabarron.net @m3li554

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Dain Oh #animatedgif #netart @lunarbaedeker http://ittakestwotostereo.blogspot.com

ninjafx: ... heroines!

ninjafx: #IWD11 exceptionally wonderful media artists, pre-digital: Steina Vasulka, Charlotte Moorman, Valie Export, Dara Birnbaum - you're...

ninjafx: RT @yokoono: Total communication equals peace. And it will eliminate ignorance, apathy and hatred. #IWD11

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Tamiko Thiel #augmentedreality #virtualreality #AR #VR http://ow.ly/4a84U

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Naoko Tosa, f.e. "Talking to Neurobaby" #interactiveart #robotics http://ow.ly/4a7Xr

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Ulrike Gabriel, f.e. "terrain 01" #robotics #artificialintelligence #interactiveart...http://vimeo.com/7723230

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Natasha Vita-More #transhumanism http://www.natasha.cc/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Agnes Hegedüs, f.e. "handsight" #interactiveart http://csw.art.pl/new/99/7e_agndl.html

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Christina Kubisch #electronicmusic http://www.christinakubisch.de/index_en.htm

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Daniela Alina Plewe, f.e. "Ultima Ratio" #interactive art http://ow.ly/4a74X

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Sandra Rosas Ridolfi, Nina Wenhart of h3x3n #netart #interactiveart www.h3x3n.net http://sandraridolfi.com/ ninawenhart-cv.blogspot.com

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ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Ushi Reiter #electronicmusic #interactiveart http://www.servus.at/blower

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Hannah Perner-Wilson #interactiveart http://plusea.at

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Mika Satomi #interactiveart http://nerding.at

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Marie Sester #interactiveart http://www.sester.net/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Mendi Obadike #netart #conceptualmusic http://www.blacknetart.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Jennifer McCoy #interactiveart http://www.mccoyspace.com/

ninjafx: hoppsa, my #IDW11 posts should of course also be #IWD11

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Lynn Hershman Leeson f.e. "America's Finest", "Conceiving Ada" #interactiveart #netart #videoart...http://www.lynnhershman.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Vera Molnar "machine imaginaire", part 2: #generativeart #pioneer #granddame #alltimefavorite...http://www.veramolnar.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Vera Molnar "machine imaginaire", her imaginative comp to produce permutations #generativeart...

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Victoria Vesna #interactiveart http://victoriavesna.com

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Annie Abrahams #netart #networkedart http://www.bram.org/info/aa.htm

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Laura Beloff #wearbletechnology #networkedart http://ow.ly/4a4Ow

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Christa Sommerer, f.e. "interactive plant growing" #interactiveart http://ow.ly/4a4jj

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Lisa Jevbratt #netart #dataviz #biofeedback http://jevbratt.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Sherrie Rabinowitz, Kit Galloway "Hole in Space", "Electronic Café" #telematicart #netart...http://www.ecafe.com/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Beatriz da Costa #tacticalmedia #hacktivism #bioart http://ow.ly/4a3wl

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Natalie Bookchin #netart http://bookchin.net/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Honor Harger of radioqualia #netradio #opensource http://www.radioqualia.net/ @honorharger

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Chris Sugrue, part of the eyewriter team #interactiveart #programmer http://csugrue.com/...

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Camille Utterback "textrain" #interactiveart http://camilleutterback.com/

ninjafx: #IDW11 - female artists & media art collectives: Monika Fleischmann #interactiveart #mediaartdatabase http://ow.ly/4a2ua www.netzspannung.org

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artist collectives & digital media: Old Boys Network #netart #cyberfeminism http://www.obn.org

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists collectives & digital media: VNS Matrix "A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century" #netart #cyberfeminism...http://lx.sysx.org/vnsmatrix.html

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Rachel Baker #netart #hacktivism http://ow.ly/4a2d0

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Natalie Jeremijenko #netart #hacktivism http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Amy Alexander #netart #softwareart http://amy-alexander.com/ @uebergeek

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Young-Hae Chang of YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES #netart http://www.yhchang.com

ninjafx: #IDW11 - female artists & media art collectives: Olga Goriunova #softwareart #netart http://readme.runme.org/ http://runme.org

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Eva Mattes of 0100101110101101 #netart #gameart http://www.0100101110101101.org/blog/

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art collectives: Joan Heemskerk of #JODI #netart #gameart #glitchart http://jodi.org

ninjafx: lol RT @markrhancock: Happy Int Women's Day. You are all bloody amazing. I love women!

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art: Clara Rockmore #electronicmusic #theremin #pioneer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Rockmore

ninjafx: RT @juspar: Inspirational women #iwd: Elizabeth Grosz, nature, sex, aesthetics #academicIWD #IWD11

ninjafx: #IDW11 - female artists & digital media: Mary Flanagan #gameart http://ow.ly/49X9a

ninjafx: #IDW11 - female artists & digital media: Mez Breeze #netart #mezangelle http://ow.ly/49WXU http://ow.ly/49WZB @netwurker !u r pure...

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Anne-Marie Schleiner #gameart #hacking #opensource http://www.opensorcery.net

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media: Char Davies "Osmose" #virtualreality http://ow.ly/49WEp

ninjafx: RT @franckancel RT @bookmarks_books: Women supporters of the Paris Commune jailed in 1871 http://bit.ly/e1D8HN #IWD11

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art: Maryanne Amacher #electronicmusic http://ow.ly/49WmF

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art: Eliane Radigue, 1st woman to receive golden nica @ prix ars in dig.musics, 2006 #electronicmusic...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliane_Radigue

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art: Daphne Oram #electronicmusic http://ow.ly/49Wgb

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & media art: Ursula Bogner #electronicmusic http://ow.ly/49Wdt

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists + media art: Delia Derbyshire #electronicmusic #pioneer http://ow.ly/49Wc7

ninjafx: RT @katecrawford: Hedy Lamarr was my kinda gal: Hollywood star, jewel thief, scientist, and co-inventor of a precursor to wifi....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

ninjafx: thx igor! RT @intima: #IWD11 follow/check @ninjafx: tweets with links to radical female digital media artists→ http://twitter.com/#!/ninjafx

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media 05: Rosa Menkman #softwareart #glitchart #videoart #obsoletemedia @r0o0s http://ow.ly/49VRC

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media 04: Olia Lialina "my boyfriend came back from the war" #netart @GIFmodel http://ow.ly/49VLz...

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media 03: netochka nezvanova #NN #netart #softwareart #nato.0+55+3d #nebula.m81 http://ow.ly/49VDq

ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media 02: Cornelia Sollfrank "female extension" #netart #hacking http://www.artwarez.org/femext/

11:12am via HootSuite
ninjafx: #IWD11 - female artists & digital media 01: LIA #generativeart #netart @liasomething http://www.liaworks.com/

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