Rachel Armstrong, Respondent: Joanna Zylinska

Date: Thursday 26th March 2009, Time: 6pm - 8pm
Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths, London UK
http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/

A significant change is occurring in the biological sciences with implications for feminist identity politics. This illustrated presentation examines cutting edge developments from pioneering
laboratories and invites the audience to engage with the notion that Bio-Feminism is set to play a pioneering role in the science of the third millennium. Modern science rests upon philosophical pillars that originate from 19th Century principles of logical analysis, reductionism and machines, particularly with respect to the organism. Feminist writers such as Evelyn Fox Keller and Donna Haraway, both of whom were trained biologists, have raised objection to this hierarchical,
traditional view of science and made provocations for change towards a more inclusive feminist model of science whose organizational agenda is ‘cyborg’.

A fabulous group of bloggers are paying tribute to women in technology and Ada Lovelace by challenging the blogosphere to represent! Around the world on March 24th, blogs are writing about the women they admire most.

For more on the initiative check out:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tomorrow_is_ada_lovelace_day_celebr...

And one of many articles on Anne Roth:
http://norbert.schepers.info/2009/03/ada-lovelace-day-09-anne-roth.html

Of course, Faces says make it Ada Day Every Day!

Women and the Archive: A Partial Disclosure presents four perspectives on the relationship between women and the archive in contArtists, collectives and researchers using archives as source material or constituting archives as their primary activity are invited to present their rarely shown collections of photographs, videos and audio recordings around women of artistic, social and political importance. Issues of provenance, methodology, property and historicisation will be addressed throughout the afternoon via presentations, screenings, performances and a panel discussion.

Our eyes, our hearts, our memory, remember the laughter, revolts, angers, fantasies of women filmmakers worldwide that came to share and celebrate in images our 30 years of Festival.

http://www.filmsdefemmes.com/

PULSE PLAY > New York 2009
Random Rules: A Chanel of Artists’ selections from YouTube
Curated by Marina Fokidis

Many believe that since the launch of YouTube in 2005, the history of the moving image has diverted from its canonical route. The website, which makes it possible for anyone who can use a computer to post a video, reaches millions of people daily.

volume 30 of n.paradoxa was published in July 2012. There is now a dynamic searchable site of information on feminist art and n.paradoxa articles at http://www.ktpress.co.uk
The 15 year history of the journal is archived at this site.

A short history of journal
n.paradoxa was set up in Dec 1996 as an online journal. 21 issues have been published since that date. These are now archived at www.ktpress.co.uk as the former site at web.ukonline.co.uk closed in January 2011.
FACES members may know this former online site better than the print version which began in January 1998.
In January 1998, a print version of n.paradoxa was started. This has been published bi-annually since then. These two forms have very different content.

Since 1993 Kore Press has been dedicated to publishing women's literary art. Situated in Tucson, Arizona, it embodies the spirit of "literary activism". Lisa Bowden, co-founder, poet and book designer talks about literary activism à la Kore-style, and what that entails in practice. She also discusses Kore's latest publication, Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq.

Read the interview here: http://displaced.blogs.com/kore/