vns matrix

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Cyberfeminism art group active in the 1990s, comprising Francesca da Rimini, Josephine Starrs, Julianne Pierce and Virginia Barratt.
Tags: Cyberfeminism, Digital, Gashgirl, Performance, Cyberfeminist art
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VNS Matrix was an Australian artist group who formed in Adelaide and were active from 1991 to 1997. Although the collaboration did not endure this group was highly influential and renowned in new media and internet art circles in the 1990s. They presented several installations, events and public art works in Australia and internationally, working with new media, photography, sound and video.

They were often credited (along with author/theorist Sadie Plant) in bringing the term 'cyberfeminism’ to prominence in the early 1990’s. An early influential work was “Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st century”

The members of VNS Matrix were Josephine Starrs, Francesca da Rimini, Julianne Pierce and Virginia Barratt. “The impetus of the group was to investigate and decipher the narratives of domination and control which surround high technological culture, and explore the construction of social space, identity and sexuality in cyberspace”

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Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013