Art390: Cyberfeminism_Creativity_Connectivity is a special topics studio/theory course taught by Krista Hoefle, Department of Art at Saint Mary's College. Using contemporary cybertheory and cyberfeminist fiction as a foundation, students will be exploring the tools and techniques of digital media through the lens of cyberfeminism. In the creation of digital artworks we will be exploring the key issues of cyberfeminism, including (but not limited to) cyborg identity/feminism, social networks, and database activism.
Additionally, students will be collaboratively working on a wiki dedicated to their ongoing research associated with the themes investigated within the class.
Texts: Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture by Mary Flanagan; VAS by Steve Tomasula (both available at the Saint Mary's Bookstore). Domain Errors!: Cyberfeminist Practices by Faith Wilding will be required later in the semester. Numerous additional readings, films, websurfing, in-class and virtual discussions, q+a with artists and writers will augment these two texts.
*this is an image of a new female-spy avatar from Ubisoft's video game, "Splinter Cell"
