< Women in New Media >
A panel addressing theoretical, practical and political aspects of independent and non-profit media arts production on the Net. The participants will present and examine a variety of net specific art works, on-line communications projects and cyber-feminist performance pieces. This symposium addresses the attribution of women in "new media" and will discuss various approaches in representing and constructing identity in the electronic space of the Internet.
In visual presentations as well as theoretically driven papers, the speakers will analyze their strategies in the cultural production and articulation of self-representation. The ways in which these works are made meaningful despite their absence within the distribution channels of "mass media" will be viewed within the on-line communities they engage. The impact of the emerging globalization of mass communication on women will be discussed in the context of cultural research and individual media artworks.