As Seu has shared, “Cyberfeminism cannot be reduced to women and technology. Nor is it about the diffusion of feminism through technology. Combining cyber and feminism was meant as an oxymoron or provocation, a critique of the cyberbabes and fembots that stocked the sci-fi landscapes of the 1980s. The term is self-reflexive: technology is not only the subject of cyberfeminism, but its means of transmission. It’s all about feedback.”
For the opening of WETWARE: Cyberfeminism Index Benefit Sale, Feral File and curator Mindy Seu held a series of conversations that brought together cyberfeminist artists and pioneers of the movement with artists and cultural workers involved in the NFT space. Eight of the artists participating in the show — Prema Murthy, Shu Lea Cheang, Morehshin Allahyari, Mary Maggic, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Skawennati, Cornelia Sollfrank, and Julianne Pierce — shared dialogues with speakers Eileen Skyers, Amy Ireland, Yana Sosnovskaya, Sam Spike, Maria Paula Fernandez, and Kelani Nichole. Held on Twitter Spaces over the course of opening day, the conversations gave further context to the pieces in the exhibition, the artists’ bodies of work, and a history of cyberfeminist art from the ’80s to the present.
Though the conversations at the opening varied per the artist and their interviewers, one question was asked in each: How do you see cyberfeminism mutating in the future? Below, we’ve gathered the artist’s responses.
Publication Details
- Type
- Online Journal
- Title
- Always in Mutation: A roundtable conversation from the artists of WETWARE
- Author
- Publication
- Feral File, 02 October 2023, English
- Publisher
- Bitmark Inc., Online