by Doug Millison for SiliconValleyWatcher.com

How deep have computers penetrated the humanities? Pretty darn deep, judging from this recent Call For Papers to be presented at a Canadian conference next year.

Call for Works: TechnoFeminisms: New Cultural Mediations

Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2004

Even before Donna Haraway identified connectivity as the key to women's liberation from the tyranny of patriarchal structures, and the cyberfeminist collective, VNS Matrix, identified the clitoris as the direct line to the matrix, feminist artists and critics have been searching for ways of using technology to speak outside of the expected parameters of well-behaved bodies, restrictive language and linear ideas. We seek (post)feminist art, works or performances that use technology to explore the new cultural mediations of our information age. We are looking for pieces that expand the boundaries of art, gender, bodies, interactivity, networks, media, technology and/or criticism rather than traditional academic papers.

Links:

Call for Papers Announcement, for The Networked Citizen: New Contributions of the Digital Humanities, at the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour Ordinateurs en Sciences Humaines (COCH/COSH) 2005 Meeting of the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, The University of Western Ontario, May 29 - 31, 2005

Canadian Women's Studies Association

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