One of the most interesting components of a contemporary feminist media practice has been its insistence on rejecting the divide separating art and politics, and in turn, on the ways in which a feminist practice revolves around the creation of communities rather than artworks. These three days, comprised of an evening lecture on Thursday, two panels on Friday and workshops Saturday morning, will begin to question the conjunction of media and criticism; the ways in which contemporary women media practitioners are constructing new modes of interaction between makers and audiences; the creation of communities; and the role of a specifically feminist media praxis in 1999.
Holly Willis is the west coast editor of Filmmaker: The Magazine of Independent Film, and a freelance writer. She is currently writing a book on contemporary experimental film and video.
Laura Kipnis is the author of Ecstasy Unlimited: On Sex, Capital, Gender, and Aesthetics and writer/director of Marx: The Video: A Politics of Revolting Bodies and Ecstasy Unlimited: The Interpenetration of Sex and Capital.
Chris Straayer
Elizabeth Subrin
Mikki Halpin is the editor of the online magazine Stim! and the main creative impulse behind some of Voyager’s most interesting CD-ROM projects.