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Announcement:

Holobionte Ediciones

Holobionte Ediciones, the independent publisher founded in 2018, and based in Barcelona are focused particularly on cultural theory and cyberculture, posthumanities, post-gender theory and avant-garde thinking. They are preparing a project entitled “30 Years of Cyberfeminism: from VNS Matrix to Laboria Cuboniks”, which will include Spanish translations of all VNS Matrix manifestos and an essay entitled “Manifesto” by Melinda Rackham, VNS Matrix’ official archive essayist. Toni Navarro has also translated the texts of Helen Hester among others. The book will cover both a historical and contemporary spectrum of cyberfeminist events. Included in the index are writers theorists and arists such as Faith Wilding and Hyla Willis from subRosa, Rosi Braidotti, Helen Hester, and the Spanish theorists of cyberculture Remedios Zafra and Teresa López-Pellisa. We are honoured to be in their company. The book is due out in September 2020.

We wish them very best fortune with the project.

Event Dates

Part of: 30 Years of Cyberfeminism: From VNS Matrix to Laboria Cuboniks
Location: Barcelona, Spain

VNS Matrix – Brave New Girls. Infiltrate

2019: Producing Futures 2019
Events

Published on June 8, 2019June 30, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Technofeminisms: The Future Cunt
Publications

Published on June 6, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; VNS Matrix
Publications

Published on June 6, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix
2018: @go #91010
Essays

Published on April 2, 2019May 22, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; A Tender Hex
Essays

Published on April 2, 2019April 13, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Game Girl
Essays

Published on April 2, 2019June 3, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Manifesto
Essays

Published on April 2, 2019June 3, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix
2017: Ars Electronica 2017
Events

Published on May 21, 2018May 30, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Challenges to immateriality
Publications

Published on May 1, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; We Make Art with our Cunts
Publications

Published on June 5, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix
2016: (New) Media
Publications

Published on May 1, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; A Brief History of Cyberfeminism
Publications

Published on June 5, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; A Tender Hex for the Anthropocene
Projects

Published on January 16, 2018June 30, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Fem Flix 2016
Events

Published on May 21, 2018June 12, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Feminist Worldbuilding in the Australian Cyberswamp
Publications

Published on June 5, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Runway Magazine Section Editorial
Projects

Published on June 12, 2019June 30, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; The cyberfeminists who called themselves ‘the future cunt’
Publications

Published on June 5, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix
2014: ‘We Are the Future Cunt’
Publications

Published on June 5, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; An Oral History of the First Cyberfeminists
Publications

Published on June 5, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Cyberfeminism
Publications

Published on June 3, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Monstrous Agents
Publications

Published on June 5, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Remix w/ Soda_Jerk
Projects

Published on June 24, 2019June 30, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix
2011: Revisiting Cyberfeminism
Publications

Published on June 5, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix
2007: Cyber-(ob)scene
Publications

Published on May 1, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 2007
Events

Published on May 21, 2018May 30, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix
2005: Interzone
Publications

Published on May 1, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix
2004: Early Internet Art
Publications

Published on May 1, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; The Cyberfeminist Fantasy of the Pleasure of the Cyborg
Publications

Published on May 1, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix
2003: Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life
Publications

Published on May 30, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; NET.ART
Publications

Published on May 30, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix
2002: Digital Culture
Publications

Published on May 30, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Prefiguring Cyberculture
Publications

Published on May 24, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix
2001: very cyberfeminist international 2001
Events

Published on May 21, 2018May 30, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Working the Screen
Publications

Published on June 3, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix
2000: CHEMISTRY: Art in South Australia 1990-2000
Events

Published on May 30, 2019May 30, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix
1999: Gens and Digits 1999
Events

Published on May 21, 2018May 30, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; SYNWORLD 1999
Events

Published on May 21, 2018May 30, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix
1998: “Slimy metaphors for technology: ‘the clitoris is a direct line to the Matrix’”
Publications

Published on June 6, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; A Report on Cyberfeminism
Publications

Published on June 5, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; All New Gen
Publications

Published on June 3, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Attack of the CyberFeminists
Publications

Published on June 3, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix
1997: Bad Code
Projects

Published on January 16, 2018July 2, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Cyber Cultures 1997
Events

Published on May 28, 2019May 30, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Love and Freedom
Publications

Published on May 30, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Suffragettes to She-Devils
Publications

Published on June 1, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; techné cultures
Publications

Published on June 3, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Zeros and Ones
Publications

Published on May 24, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix
1996: Ars Electronica 1996
Events

Published on May 21, 2018May 31, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Australian Women Artists & New Media Technologies
Publications

Published on May 2, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Big New Sites: Virtual Theme Parks
Projects

Published on January 16, 2018June 30, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Bitch Mutant Manifesto
Projects

Published on January 16, 2018July 2, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Game Girls
Publications

Published on April 30, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; VNS Matrix: Cyberfeminists
Publications

Published on June 3, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix
1995: 25 Years of Performance Art 1995
Events

Published on May 21, 2018June 24, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; ACCA Australian Centre for Contemporary Art 1995
Events

Published on May 28, 2019June 24, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; AOL: Acker-On-Line
Publications

Published on May 31, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Ars 95 Helsinki 1995
Events

Published on May 21, 2018May 31, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Artspace 1995
Events

Published on June 24, 2019June 24, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Corpusfantastica MOO
Projects

Published on January 16, 2018July 2, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Cyber dykes R Us
Publications

Published on May 30, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Cybergettes
Publications

Published on May 31, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Maps: Territories: Subject: corpusfantasticaMOO
Publications

Published on May 31, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Rise of the Cyber-Fems
Publications

Published on May 1, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; The Future is Fe/Male
Publications

Published on May 1, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; The Performance Space 1995–1996
Events

Published on May 31, 2019May 31, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Virtual Futures 1995
Events

Published on May 21, 2018May 31, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; YYZ Artists’ Outlet 1995
Events

Published on May 31, 2019May 31, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix
1994: 5th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) 1994
Events

Published on May 21, 2018June 14, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; ACCA Australian Centre for Contemporary Art 1994
Events

Published on May 31, 2019May 31, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Adelaide Festival 1994
Events

Published on January 16, 2018May 31, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; All New Gen
Publications

Published on May 30, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; ALL NEW GEN
Publications

Published on June 3, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Art Forums
Publications

Published on May 31, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Australian International Video Symposium 1994
Events

Published on May 21, 2018June 14, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; babes in boyland
Publications

Published on June 3, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; E Sensual Fragments
Projects

Published on January 16, 2018June 30, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Game Grrrls
Publications

Published on May 31, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Girls in Cyberspace
Publications

Published on June 3, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; ICA Institute of Contemporary Art 1994
Events

Published on May 21, 2018May 31, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Infiltrate
Projects

Published on July 20, 2018June 30, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Interfaces 1994
Events

Published on May 21, 2018May 31, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Letter From Birmingham
Publications

Published on May 31, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Media Futures 1994
Events

Published on May 21, 2018May 31, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Morphing the Oz indie film scene paradigm
Publications

Published on June 3, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Women Computing and Culture
Publications

Published on May 24, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Women Taking Space in Cyberculture
Publications

Published on May 1, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix
1993: Against ‘Neofuturism’
Publications

Published on May 23, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; All New Gen
Publications

Published on June 3, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Engineering Poetics
Publications

Published on April 29, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Experimental Art Foundation 1993
Events

Published on June 24, 2019June 24, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Art [FISEA’93] 1993
Events

Published on May 30, 2019May 31, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Infiltrate
Publications

Published on May 31, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Nintendo’s New World Order
Publications

Published on May 31, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Under the VR Spell?
Publications

Published on May 30, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Welcome to the world of ALL NEW GEN
Publications

Published on June 3, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix
1992: ALL NEW GEN
Projects

Published on January 16, 2018July 2, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Billboard Project
Projects

Published on January 16, 2018June 30, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Forget Barbie, Let’s Slime
Publications

Published on May 31, 2019June 6, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; SIGGRAPH 1992
Events

Published on May 21, 2018May 31, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix; Third International Symposium on Electronic Art (TISEA) 1992
Events

Published on May 21, 2018May 31, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix
1991: The Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century
Projects

Published on January 16, 2018July 2, 2019 Published by VNS Matrix

All New Gen: Title Frame. VNS Matrix, 1993, slide photo

Bad Code: The Vax, VNS Matrix, 1997. 35mm slide artwork

Big New Sites: Limit of Worlds, VNS Matrix 1996. 35mm slide artwork

Attack of the CyberFeminists, Mary-Anne Breeze. Switch|Journal, issue 9, June 14 1998, online journal screenshot

Welcome to the world of ALL NEW GEN, VNS Matrix. Frame-work: The N E double U Issue: Arts, Media and Technologies, volume 6 issue 2 1993, journal cover

A Tender Hex for the Anthropocene, VNS Matrix 2016: video still – 5 — A Tender Hex for the Anthropocene, Runway Magazine iteration, video still, VNS Matrix 2016

Street Level: Cyber Cultures exhibition 1997, programme cover

Mesh: Journal of Experimenta Media Arts, Issue 10, Spring 1996

Gens & Digits, 1999, Amsterdam, Netherlands, conference programme

Producing Futures – An Exhibition on Post-Cyber-Feminisms. Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich 2019. VNS Matrix – All New Gen / Bad Code

Game Girls by VNS Matrix, in DIY Feminism, Kathy Bail (ed.), 1996

25 Years of Performance Art in Australia, Exhibition Catalogue

Australian International Video Symposium 1994. Catalogue

Interzone: Media Arts in Australia, Darren Tofts, 2005

Media Futures: Policy and Performance International Conference, 1994. Programme

Ars Electronica Festival 1996. Festival Catalogue, Memesis – The Future of Evolution

VNS Matrix acknowledge that all work was made on indigenous land, primarily Tarntanya on Kaurna land, and Bondi of the Eora nation. We enjoyed the privilege of free passage across that land to create our works, and all benefits that have accrued from the production of that work are as a result of that privilege.

VNS Matrix supports feminisms that are inclusive of all women (trans women, womxn, feminine-identified and non-binary identified people and cis women); and that are intersectional.