Authors:

 Malloy, Judy. ON LINE PANEL

Title:

 GENDER IDENTITY IN NEW MEDIA - An online Panel

Keywords:

Abstract:

 "And even computer-generated texts embody, in their materials
the experience and historical consciousness of the person who
created them," Arlene Raven wrote ten years ago in "The Last Essay on
Feminist Criticism."

Are male and female voices in this field substantially different? Do
women artists working in new media want to identify themselves as women?
Should our voices, as women, be a core element in shaping this rapidly
developing field? Or is emphasizing gender identity polarizing or
irrelevant?

In conjunction with the publication of the MIT Press book on Women
in new media, (a part of the Leonardo series) a proposed virtual panel on
GENDER IDENTITY IN NEW MEDIA, will address the question: "As we approach
the Millennium, what is the role of gender/gender identity in shaping the
convergence of art, science and technology? "

The online panel will probably be hosted on Arts Wire but there are other
possible venues. The format will be a combination of listserv and
conferencing system. (which as Arts Wire's Network Coordinator, I am
capable of implenting) Documentation will be produced and will be
available on the Web. It is proposed in conjunction with a physical
panel, hosted by Leonardo, coordinated by Pat Bentson.

The following people have agreed to participate. However, not only am I
continuing to invite participants, but also the panel will be open, so it
is likely that participation will be greater than the number of
participants listed. The names preceded by an asterisk also intend to
participate in the physical panel.

Participants:

The 4 names marked with an * have indicated that they will participate
in the physical panel on Women, Art & Technology. The 2 names marked with
a + , are not on the physical gender panel list, but they have indicated
that they may be attending the conference physically. )

Anne Bray, artist, teacher and Executive Director of L.A. Freewaves, a
media arts organization and festival in Los Angeles.

Kathy Brew, Director, Thundergulch

+Annick Bureaud, electronic art consultant and curator, art critic and
lecturer at the art school of Aix en Provence, IDEA online editor, OLATS
(Leonardo Observatory for the Arts and Techno-Sciences) coordinator and
contributor.

*Donna Cox, Associate Director for External Initiatives, School Art and
Design Assistant Director for Virtual Director, Grid Group
National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Amanda McDonald Crowley, Director, Australian Network for Art and
Technology.

Anna Couey, artist whose telecommunications works explore cultural
identity and communication exchange

Diane Fenster, artist

+Monika Fleischmann, Head of Media Arts Research Studies, Institute for
Media Communications, GMD-Research Centre for Information Technology

Carolyn Guyer, among the first wave of hypertext writers and artists, is
the author of QUIBBLING; co-author of IZME PASS; and co-author of the
forthcoming web fiction SISTER STORIES. Among her current projects is
MOTHER MILLENNIA, a website devoted to the cultural associations and
disjunctures inherent in stories of Mother.

Blyth Hazen, artist, Montserrat College of Art, Assistant Professor;
Do While Studio, Education Coordinator

*Kathy Rae Huffman, Associate Professor of Electronic Art, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, Curator Van Gogh TV, Net.art curator

Tina LaPorta, hybrid media artist. Her most recent works have been
created specifically for the internet environment exploring concepts of
presence, absence and dis-location.

Brenda Laurel, researcher and designer, interactive media
founder and vp/design, Purple Moon

Catherine McGovern, Studio XX Program Coordinator

Margaret Morse, Assoc. Prof. of Film and Digital Media
University of California Santa Cruz; Fall Semester 1998: Fellow at the
Center for the Humanities

Christiane Paul, editor-in-chief and publisher of
Intelligent Agent, a magazine on interactive media in arts and education

*Sheila Pinkel, artist, associate professor of art at Pomona College and
international editor of Leonardo

Karen O'Rourke, artist

Pauline Oliveros, composer.

Frank Popper (Author of Art of the Electronic Age (Thames & Hudson, New
York, 1997) and Adviser to the forthcoming St James Guide to Contemporary
Women Artists

Ann Powers, artist, Manager of information and communication
WordStream, inc.

*Sonya Rapoport, artist, board member, Leonardo/ISAST

Cynthia Beth Rubin, digital artist

Carol Stakenas is a visual artist. Currently, she is the Associate
Director of Creative Time, a public arts organization.

Dawn Stoppiello, Choreographer/Media Artist and Artistic Co-Director of
Troika Ranch, a performance group that combines traditional elements of
dance, music and theatre with interactive computer technology and media.

*Nell Tenhaaf is an electronic media artist and writer. Her textual and
visual work addresses the cultural implications of new technologies,
focusing on representational developments in the biosciences, in
Artificial Life, and on the Internet. She is an Assistant Professor in
the Visual Arts Department of York University, Toronto.

Helen Thorington: writer/composer/new media artist, director of the
Turbulence web site.

Pamela Z, Composer/Performer, sound artist
Judy Malloy, jmalloy@artswire.org jmalloy@well.com Arts Wire Network Coordinator http://www.artswire.org Judy http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/awquilt.html) is a pioneer electronic writer. Her hyperfiction is published by Eastgate systems and has been widely reviewed. She is Arts Wire's Network Coordinator and edits Arts Wire Current, a weekly electronic journal sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts, which focuses on social, economic, philosophical and political issues affecting the arts and culture. She is also na artist-in-residence at Xerox PARC. She is currently working on a book on Women in New media (for MIT Press in the Leonardo series) and is a Leonardo International Co-Editor.