Surveillance

I'm a media activist, blogger, journalist, translator, mother of two and since July '07 mostly known for being the partner of Andrej Holm who was arrested in our home for being terrorist. Two months later I started blogging about living with an anti-terror investigation. When being the focus of this calmed down a bit I started writing more about the War against Terror in general, issues of surveillance, data protection, civil rights, but also media and web 2.0.

Apart from all this (or: in my former life) I'm interested and involved in sharing knowledge with women about technology. Networks I'm involved in include Eclectic Tech Carnival" and the Genderchangers.

I am interested in the geographies of surveillance and the body. My work moves from the directly "say it as it is" biographical to the layering of fictional biographies onto the city, the gallery and the virtual.

Coming from initial studies in sculpture and printmaking I have been making work in various forms for some time starting off with political poster, sticker making and super 8 film making in the 1980's and moving to new media and video in 1988. You can see more of my solo projects at www.fabyc.co.uk.

I am very interested in the mother/daughter relationship and have made a lot of work that engages both with my relationship with my long dead mother and that of being a mother.