Francesca da Rimini makes work using various media including text,
video and computers. She often works in collaboration with others,
particularly as she drifts through the internet, where she maintains
a number of avatars and spaces including GashGirl, doll yoko,
GenderFuckMeBaby's Palace of Unparalled Cynicism and The Realm
of the Puppet Mistress.
da Rimini has made a number of films and videos, the most recent
being White, a multi-lingual exploration of language and madness.
White, a collaboration with Josephine Starrs has been exhibited
as an installation at The Australian Centre for Photography (Sydney
96) and screened at festivals in Australia, the UK, Europe and
Latin America. White is currently web-cast on the internet at
http://www.thing.net
da Rimini has a long association with the Australian cyberfeminist
art group VNS Matrix ( 'we are the virus of the new world disorder'),
whose many projects have included A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for
the 21st Century, All New Gen, Corpus Fantastica MOO, Spiral Space,
Virtual Theme Parks and Bad Code. Major manifestations of the
VNS virii include TISEA (Sydney 92), SIGGRAPH (Chicago 92), FISEA
(Minneapolis 93), ISEA (Helsinki 94), YYZ (Toronto 95), Ars Electronica
(Linz 96), and CyberCultures (Sydney 97).
In 1998 da Rimini's novella FleshMeat will be published by the
Italian publishing house SHAKE. Based on her online research and
structured as a series of lines of flight through material and
virtual planes of existence, the work explores identity, desire,
death and deception. Excerpts been published by Random House (in
Women Love Sex) and Picador (in New Australian Writing 4). A
number of da Rimini's other textual traces have been published
in journals, electronic zines and list-servs including Kabinet
(Russia), Mute (UK), Freebase (UK), Alt-X (USA), Framework (USA),
Knowbotic Research (Germany), Public Netbase (Austria), Decoder
(Italy), Work (Canada), Underground (UK), Un-Natural (UK), Nettime,
Arena (AUS), Mind Virus (AUS) and GeekGirl (AUS).
Da Rimini occasionally works with the Australian Network for Art
and
Technology, being its founding Executive Officer and for whom
she curated VIROGENESIS, a cultural exchange which brought to
Australia multimedia artist Graham Harwood, activist writer/publishers
Matt Fuller and Gomma and the sound artist/DJ Scanner.
In 1997 da Rimini undertook an artist-in-residency at the Media
Resource Centre in Adelaide, where she made an internet project
entitled dollspace. dollspace is a hauntology, a ghost work of
counter-memories which open thresholds of impossibilites outside
of pan-capitalism--a space which gathers the spectres of recombinant
desires, deadbaby gurls, and Zapatistas. In collaboration with
Ricardo Domingeuz (USA), Michael Grimm (AUS) and other possessed
bodies dollspace refolds four sites that contain dark hypertext
fiction, strategic links to contemporary sites of political action
by third/fourth world ghosts, a zone for sightings of spectral
disturbances and a 'soundtrack for an empty dollspace'. It is
online at http://www.thing.net/~dollyoko
Francesca da Rimini is currently shape-shifting dollspace into
a new work entitled a smear of roses. Her existing online projects
are linked to http://sysx.apana.org.au/~gashgirl/arc/index.html