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This meeting seeks to expose new approaches, emergent phenomenas and
alternative practices that information and communications technologies
and the Internet have engendered, in the redefinition of a networked,
civic democracy.
Co-founder of the Cybersolidaires, Nicole Nepton has been involved in the women's movement since a number of years with the particular objective of the women's mastery of communication and information technologies, in order to reinforce their technical capabilities and their social networks. Notably, she has produced the Canadian Women's Internet Repertory (http://repertoire.womenspace.ca) as well as other projects for Womenspace such as a women's Internet Campaign. She built the Désobéissantes with Julie Lapalme (http://www.studioxx.org/desobeissantes), inspired by the participants of the feminist workshop on agency in cyberspace that she animated at Studio XX. She sustains Cybersolidaire's network (http://www.cybersolidaires.org), the site of which she conceived and developed as well as other progressive sites and discussion lists. She is currently conceptualising a dynamic version of Cybersolidaires linked to a network of other Web sites produced with free software, which themselves offer simple means of making more dynamic and linking up the french feminist network on the Internet.
Rena Tangens, artist and networking pioneer, lives and works in Bielefeld, Germany. Her works bring together diverse practices such as experimental film, video and free radio. She founded the gallery and art project "Art d´Ameublement" together with colleague padeluun in 1984. She has been active online since 1987, and she brought the first modem to the international art exhibition Documenta (1987). She was instrumental in integrating women into the Chaos Computer Club (Berlin). She effected an artist residency in Canada in 1988. Rena Tangens is co-founder of the association FoeBuD e.V., the Bionic
bbs and the independent networks Z-Netz and CL (Germany) and Zamir Transnational
Network (set up during the war in former Yugoslavia, 1992). She has
also worked in software development for the Zerberus bbs program. Advancement
of Privacy as precondition for living democracy and respect of the network
as a social Space, along with research on androcentrism in the networks
is currently the focus of her works.
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