RRS x GSASA: Cyberfeminism Index and FRESH KILL

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RRS x GSASA: Cyberfeminism Index and FRESH KILL

RRS x GSASA: Cyberfeminism Index online performative reading by Mindy Seu, followed by a screening of FRESH KILL by Shu Lea Cheang 
5 – 8pm, Bourdon Lecture Theatre, GSA Bourdon Building, Scott Street (and online) 


Welcome to the Scottish book launch of the Cyberfeminism Index with an online performative reading by its editor, the designer, professor, and researcher Mindy Seu. Seu’s talk will be followed by a screening of FRESH KILL (1994), the debut feature film by legendary multimedia artist and filmmaker Shu Lea Cheang, one of the artists featured in the Index.   


ABOUT THE CYBERFEMINISM INDEX:   
In Cyberfeminism Index, hackers, scholars, artists, and activists of all regions, races and sexual orientations consider how humans might reconstruct themselves by way of technology. When learning about internet history, we are taught to focus on engineering, the military-industrial complex, and the grandfathers who created the architecture and protocol, but the internet is not only a network of cables, servers, and computers. It is an environment that shapes and is shaped by its inhabitants and their use.  
  
The creation and use of the Cyberfeminism Index is a social and political act. It takes the name cyberfeminism as an umbrella, complicates it, and pushes it into plain sight. Edited by designer, professor, and researcher Mindy Seu, it includes more than 700 short entries of radical techno-critical activism in a variety of media, including excerpts from academic articles and scholarly texts; descriptions of hackerspaces, digital rights activist groups, and bio-hacktivism; and depictions of feminist net art and new media art.  
  
Contributors include: VNS Matrix, Sin Wai Kin, Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Sadie Plant, Old Boys Network, Shu Lea Cheang, Cornelia Sollfrank, subRosa, Skawennati, Legacy Russell, and Black Quantum Futurism. 

ABOUT MINDY SEU:   
Mindy Seu is a designer and technologist based in New York City, currently teaching as an Assistant Professor at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts and Critic at Yale School of Art. Her expanded practice involves archival projects, techno-critical writing, performative lectures, and design commissions. Mindy’s ongoing Cyberfeminism Index, which gathers three decades of online activism and net art, was commissioned by Rhizome, presented at the New Museum, and awarded a Graham Foundation Grant. 

ABOUT FRESH KILL:   
Directed by Shu Lea Cheang, 1994, U.S  
Starring Sarita Choudhury, Erin McMurtry, Abraham Lim 

Taiwanese-born new-media visionary Shu Lea Cheang directs this avant-anarcho ecosatire, in which a lesbian couple living on Staten Island find themselves ensnared in a vast conspiracy involving a ghost ship of nuclear refuse, ominous television commercials, and deadly cat food. Envisioning New York City as a toxic waste dump of consumerist detritus, FRESH KILL offers a bracing, queer feminist response to the patriarchal poison of corporate capitalism. 

ABOUT SHU LEA CHEANG: 
Shu Lea Cheang is an artist and filmmaker working with various art mediums and film formats, including installation, performance, net art, public art, video installation, feature-length film and mobile web serial. As a net art pioneer, her project BRANDON (1998-1999) was the first web art commissioned and collected by the Guggenheim Museum in New York. She drafts sci-fi narratives in her film scenario and artwork imagination, crafting her own “science” fiction genre of new queer cinema, terming them eco-cybernoia (FRESH KILL, 1994), sci-fi cyberpunk (I.K.U., 2000), sci-fi cypherpunk (Fluidø, 2017). In 2019 Cheang represented Taiwan with a solo exhibition 3x3x6 at Venice Biennale. 
 

This is event has been organised in collaboration between GSASA and RRS.   

 

EVENT INFORMATION: 

Event timings:  
5-6pm:
Cyberfeminism Index talk by Mindy Seu (live streamed) with Q&A 
6:00–6:15pm: Break (with refreshments) 
6:15–7:45pm: Screening of FRESH KILL 

Note on tickets for this event: 
Mindy Seu will be live streaming from the U.S for this performative lecture. You are welcome to join by Zoom or in person at the GSA Bourdon Lecture Theatre.  

FRESH KILL will only be available to watch live at the GSA Bourdon Lecture Theatre. 

Digital tickets (to join by Zoom): These tickets will be available for the Cyberfeminism Index talk only.  

In-Person tickets: If you are coming in person, you are welcome to book a ticket for either the Cyberfeminism Index talk, the Fresh Kill screening, or both. Please note that we will have a break and refreshments between the talk and the screening.  

All tickets for the event are free, but please book in advance. 

 

Film rating: 

Please note, FRESH KILL has a UK rating certificate 18. 

Venue/Timing

Venue : Bourdon Lecture Theatre, GSA Bourdon Building, Scott Street, Glasgow

Type: Freshers

Start Date: Thursday 21-09-2023 - 17:00

End date: Thursday 21-09-2023 - 20:00

Contact Details

GSASA Team

gsasa@gsa.ac.uk

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