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Hack.it.art - Hacktivism in the Context of Art and Media in Italy
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien | Mariannenplatz 2, 1o997 Berlin
www.kunstraumkreuzberg.de - www.ecn.org/aha

In partnership with Transmediale/Club Transmediale

Panels and Workshop
5th - 6th - 8th February 2005

Panel: 'Hacking the Body'- 6th february, 4.00 pm

The panel 'Hacking the Body' is an inquiry into the meaning of cyberfeminism today after more than ten years since it was coined, reflecting artistic and activistic practices which play with the topics of body, identity and sexuality. In 1991, along with new gender and identity utopias linked to a radical and collective use of technology, VNS Matrix, a group of Australian women wrote 'A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century' and, influenced by Donna Haraway, playfully developed the concept of cyberfeminism. The cyberfeminist virus spread to Australia, Europa and America, combining radical use of body, enthusiasm for new technological utopias and hopes for subverting patriarchy through new hybrid identities, irony and political activism.

After ten years of individual and collective practices, where does cyberfeminism stand today? In which way is it possible to radically hack concepts like identity, the body and sexuality? Currently, there is a new wave of radical body expression through independent pornography which, experimenting with the body and identity as well, tries to subvert dichotomies like male/female, gay/straight.

Is this the new body infected by the cyberfeminist virus?

Hacking the Body - 6th february, 4.00 pm:

First section (4.00-5.30 pm)
- Cornelia Sollfrank, Old Boys Network <www.obn.org> (Hamburg, D)
- Agnese Trocchi, Candida TV <www.candidatv.tv> (Rome, IT)
- public discussion

Video projection (5.30 pm)

- 'Bio Doll's Baby' by Franca Formenti <www.francaformenti3.org> (Varese, IT), video introduced by Dahlia Schweitzer <www.thisisdahlia.com> (New York, USA/Berlin, D) with the interaction of synusi@ virus by Casaluce - Geiger (Vienna, AU/Italy)

Second section (6.00-7.30 pm)
- Diana McCarty, Bootlab (<www.bootlab.org> Berlin, D)
- Betty, Sexyshock (<www.ecn.org/sexyshock> Bologna, IT)
- public discussion
- Moderator: Tatiana Bazzichelli, AHA (<www.ecn.org/aha> Rome, IT/Berlin, D)