what's this all about?

Art366: Cyberfeminism and New Media Practices is an advanced new media course taught by Krista Hoefle in the Department of Art at Saint Mary's College (Notre Dame, IN). This wiki functions as a collaborative research space where students, faculty, and visitors can investigate the conventions, themes, tools and techniques of cyberfeminist writers and artists. In addition to reading and discussing contemporary cybertheory and cyberfeminist fiction, students will be creating studio projects based on their perspectives and in response to the creative research developed here.

who are we?

Krista Hoefle

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KittenEm

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Chloe Fairmount

Flagslayer 

ThePinkChuck

TheWoj 

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Our LiNks of interest

Field trip to SL Dumpster

getting started...

Week One--

• introduction to WikiStyle
• cultivating a basic (cyberfeminist) GlosSary
• investigating the conventions of cyberfeminist/cyberpunk film and literature

Week Two-- 

• investigating the conventions of cyberpunk/cyberfeminist film and literature: CompareContrast1
• What is HyperText? and experiments in text-based interactivity...
• Flash workshop #1--Intro. to interface/drawing + text

Week Three-

• Flash workshop #2--Drawing + text/Symbols/Movie Clips + Buttons
• Flash workshop #3--Jumping around the main timeline/Your first Actionscript Code
• Flash workshop #4--Nested symbols and Timelines with timelines/jd_btns

Week Four--

• Flash workshop #5--Adding sound and video
• Flash workshop #6--loadMovie Function (calling up external content from a data file)

Week Five--

•  Flash workshop #7--cont'd loadMovie Function (calling up external content from a data file)
• Flash workshop #8--Randomize and Stylize...getting generative and createEmptyMovieClip
• Discuss preliminary hyptertext concept; visualization of structure

Week Six--

• open studio to work on hypertext project.
• bringing out the big guns.....Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto...an introduction to cyborg identity...
• Cyborg Identity research begins...Ghost in the Shell.

Week Seven--

• open studio to work on hypertext.
• CompareContrast2 A comparison of the Ripley and Sarah Connor characters from 'Aliens' and 'T2: Judgement Day -or- what's with James Cameron?
• MIDTERM REVIEW

Week Eight--

• Is your hypertext project a (cyber)feminist narrative? an assessment in light/in line/in spite/according to/juxtaposingThe Old Boys Network
• exploration of disembodiment...an introduction to Second Life
• Critical Embodiment...imaging yourself as a cyborg/chimera/hybrid... e-(d)entity creating a CyborgIdentity

Week Nine--

• CyborgIdentity
• TheHaraway (a questionnaire for A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980's by Donna Haraway)
• Database Activism...what's the difference between a net and a network?

Weeks Ten and On...coming soon (database activism!).

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