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Program
Maid in Cyberspace 06 stimulates critical reflection on artistic practices
and technological applications through the varied programming it presents:
Web art works, installations, performances, concerts, conferences and
workshops.
Web Art Works
Pascale Malaterre
(Quebec): L1001S
Tamara Vukov (Quebec):
Balkan Mediations
Mara Verna (Quebec):
Hottentotvenus
Nunatinnit Nomadic Media
Lab (Canada): Live from the Tundra
Michelle Teran
(Canada): 2.4_interference_interaction
Agnese Trocchi
(Italy): Warriors of Perception, Search and Manifest. A Freenet Game.
Olga Goriunova,
DXLab (Russia-Finland): Suicide Letter Wizard for Microsoft Word
Maria Miranda +
Norie Neumark (Australia): <Journey to the c/enter>
Special Project : Windows
and Curtains
Guest Curators: Nina Czegledy (Canada) and Eleni Laperi (Albania)
This collective project is the first of its kind made for the Web in
Albania. A difficult and obscure context, a society dominated by men.
Eight women who have never been involved in collaborative practice,
who are not writers, who possess limited knowledge of computers, who
are not familiar with the Web, who do not speak English. They created
the site with the contribution of their personal histories and images
(photographs, paintings, drawings).
Installations
Coco Fusco (United
States): Dolores 10 to 10
Stephanie
Rothenberg (United States): number .0004: Spring Line 2002
Performances
Two interactive on-line performances invites the public to experiment
with the gaps, intervals and immediacies of networked communications
between different spaces.
Smartbodies: The Real
Show
Real-time broadcast between Montreal and Quebec
- Friday, February 7th at 20:30 p.m.
Commands by remote Montreal participants will be sent over the network
and executed by Quebec participants. This performance is in collaboration
with the Mois Multi (Productions Recto-Verso).
Michelle Teran
Live stream from the Waag Society of
Old and New Media, Amsterdam
- Saturday, February 8th at 12:30 p.m.
Canadian artist in residency at the Waag Society, Michelle will offer
an experience exploring the states of situatedness, where physical and
mediated spaces meet and converge. The performance will mark the first
encounter of the Anatomic group - an open space focused on initiating
and involving artists in online, collaborative media interaction.
Concerts
An evolving program of women and their machines, from delicate actuelle
and experimental to orchestral, electropop, techno, and electropunk.
The Free Radical Concert Series features a roster of bands, DJs and
electroacoustic composers including: Magali
Babin & I8U, Alice
and the Serial Numbers, Myléna
Bergeron, Alexis
O’Hara, [sic],
Nanobot Auxillary Ballet,
Lederhosen Lucil,
Kathy Kennedy,
Haeyoung Kim,
Lesbians on Ecstacy
et Anna Friz &
Annabelle Chvostek.
Conferences
Three conferences which will expose and juxtapose different and complimentary
subjects which find themselves at the heart of current initiatives of
social action and change in regards to new technologies and the Internet.
Experts, artists activists and computer scientists from different local
and international communities will be on-site to discuss the stakes
of electronic resistance. Informal discussions with the public will
give an opportunity to explore the strategies by which we can all instigate
social change.
_Women, Technologies
and Social Action
_Front End / Back End:
Women and Computers
_Subversive Actions
Radical Radio Youth Camp
A new initiative within the festival this year, Maid in Cyberspace will
be hosting a three-day after-school course in radio production and journalism
for students in grades 9 through 11. Students will learn all about airwaves,
building transmitters, sound production, and producing radio features.
CKUT 90.3 FM will air their work during a two-hour broadcast on Saturday,
February 8th at 2 PM. Musical guest Lederhosen
Lucil will perform her casio-driven hösemusik during the broadcast.
Web Site
The Web site will have a double role this year. It will continue to
be the meeting place for local and international Net surfers (more than
800,000 hits recorded in February 2002, of which more than 350,000 during
the week of the festival) to visit the works and access information
on all the activities that will be taking place throughout the event.
It will also propose an active and
experimental zone which will host a series of interventions, links
and contributions made by the public each day, through a dynamic and
media-rich interface. Come join us, take a stand, leave your mark!
Catalogue
A catalogue bringing together essays by three artists and writers of
international reputation - Katherine Liberovskaya (Quebec), Nina
Czegledy (Canada) et Marina Grzinic (Slovenia) - will offer
theoretical and feminist counterpoint on the theme of Active Agent.
Circulation
Maid in Cyberspace will also present a selection of its programming
at the Mois Multi event (Productions Recto-Verso) in Quebec City (February
7th) and at the Centre de production DAÏMON in Hull (February 20
- 22). Web artworks, on-line performances and artist presentations will
be shown at each venue.
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