Assemblage

The Women's New Media Gallery

compiled and curated by carolyn guertin

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

(by Author)

Saij, Isabelle (France/Austria). Digressions: Website.
---. Happy Hours... An interactive paintbox.
---. Iconoclasme.

Sanford, Christy Sheffield (USA). Sanford's Home Page.
---. Albertas Fountain/La Fontaine d'Albertas. An edited version was anthologized on The Little Magazine's CD-ROM, 1998.
---. Light Water: A Mosaic of Meditations. Published in New River 5, 1999.
---. Madame de Lafayette's Book of Hours Collaborative Work Site, 1996. Project Director: Christy Sheffield Sanford. In English and French.
---. No Pink. Salt Hill 5. Winner of The Well's Prize for Best Hyperlinked Work on the Web, 1998. (Offline)
---. The Pre-Raphaelite Dreams of Violette Poole, In English and French. 1997.
---. Red Mona, 1995-1999. In English and French.
---. The Rockgarden of Love. Shown in the Amour-Horreur Exhibition, Montreal. Netscape 4.0 or higher only. 1999.
---. Roots of Non-Linearity: Towards a Theory of Web-Specific Art-Writing. Interactive theory. An Alden B. Dow Creativity Fellowship Project. In process. BeeHive 03.01. 2000. Netscape 4.0 or higher only. 1999. (See also DA2 Keystroke: A Workshop on New Writing for the New Media.)
---, Curator. My Millennium: the trAce Anthology, 1999.

Sanford, Christy Sheffield (USA) and Reiner Strasser (Germany). ~Water~Water~Water: a transatlantic web collaboration. Nottingham Now Festival and DA2 Bristol, 1999. 4.0 or higher java-enabled browser only.

Saunders, Grace (USA). Sweet Dreams. 2001. (Offline)

Scalora, Suza (USA). Mythopoeia: The Making of Myths. An interactive net art book.

Schleiner, Anne-Marie (USA). mutation.fem. An underworld game patch router to female monsters, frag queens and bobs whose first name is betty. Part of Outoäly Alkuun: Alien Intelligence exhibit, Finland. Feminist game theory. 2000. (Image used courtesy of Robert Nideffer (USA) from Nude Patched Raider II.)
---. opensorcery. Gaming website that investigates hacker strategies and gender issues.

Schultz, Chris(tie) (Canada). Freshly Shaven Legs. Performative Subjectivity/Subjective Performance: A Lesbian Takes Photographs.

Seaman, Patricia (Canada). New Motor Queen City. Toronto: Coach House Books, 1997-98. A hyper-linked graphic novel.

Selbo, Vivian (USA). cavil, an internet concern.
---. Enclosed Caption Viewing. 1997.
---. killer @pp ~ it's all t@lk! and open source. Recipient of a Jerome Grant. 1999.
---. Vertical Blanking Interval

Simpson, Samantha (USA). Life Story Project. Collaborative web. Leonardo Electronic Almanac.

Slattery, Diana Reed (USA). Alphaweb: A Poetry Hypertext. Postmodern Culture, Special Hypertext Issue.
---. Confessions of a Cult Leader's Wife. The book that is impossible to write. (Offline)
--- (with Daniel O'Neil and Bill Brubaker). Glide: An Interactive Exploration of Visual Language. A game, a maze, a virus, speculative fiction and the dance of death. 4.0 browser plus Shockwave plugin. Winner of the McKinney Contest. 1999. Don't miss the companion novel, The Maze Game.

Smith, Hazel (Australia) with Roger Dean (Australia). Intertwingling. Part of the Overland Express Site. 1998.

Smith, Hazel (Australia) with Roger Dean (Australia) and Greg White (Australia). Wordstuffs: The City and the Body. 1999.

Smith, Sarah (USA). King of Space. Dark science fiction with game-like twists. Watertown, MA: Eastgate Systems. HyperCard for Macintosh.

Sommerer, Christa and Laurent Mignonneau (Austria/France/Japan). Verbarium. An interactive, web-based text program; input "functions as ... genetic code to create a three-dimensional form." Developed for the Cartier Foundation, Paris. 1999. (Offline)
---. Christa and Laurent's Website. Links to works, exhibitions, and research projects.

Sorensen, Kelly (USA). Person=i=fixation. 2001.

Sourkes, Cheryl (Canada). Genes and Genesis.
---. Artist Profile. Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art Database.

Stars, Josephine (Australia). User Unfriendly Interface.
---. Website.

Steffensen, Jyanni (Australia). LiLy Ponds: a poststructural gardening thriller, Parallel Gallery and Journal 2, 1995.
---. Slimy Metaphors for Technology: the clitoris is a direct line to the matrix. A theoretical hypertext about the cyberfeminist organization VNS Matrix, "includes a computer game; a video installation; an acoustic installation; a cyberfeminist manifesto for the 21st Century; and a 'shrine' to the Oracle Snatch." 1999.

Stowe, Lynn (USA). The Lines of Demarcation. 1999-2000. Science fiction.
---. The Meadow. 1999.
---. Zidaanna: the Balance of Heaven. 1999. (offline)

Strickland, Stephanie (USA). The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot. About.com Poetry's Best of the Net Award.
---. Seven League Boots: Poetry, Science and Hypertext. Theoretical hypertext. Electronic Book Review 7, 1998.
---, Curator. TechnoPoetryFestival. Georgia Institute of Technology. April 1-2, 2002.
---. True North. Watertown, MA: Eastgate Systems, 1997. Winner of a Salt Hill Award, 1998.
---. V: Vniverse.com. The online component of a trilogy. The first two V parts, WaveSon.nets and Losing L'Una, are published by Penguin Putnam, 2002. Strickland says, "It is a book to be glimpsed and scanned and begun again--as reading on networks, or reading hypertextually, teaches us to do."
---. Website.

Strickland, Stephanie (USA). See also Coverley, M.D. and Stephanie Strickland.

Stringfellow, Kim (USA). The Charmed Horizon. A meditation on a passage from 19th century French writer Lautremont's "Chants of Maldoror." SXSW 1999 Interactive Web Competition Winner.

Stryker, Beth + Sawad Brooks (USA). 1+1. Korean Webart Festival. 2001.
---. DissemiNET.
Article: Michelle Kraft on Beth Stryker's DissemiNET.

Studio XX (Canada). A bilingual collective of cyberfeminist artists, activists and academics. Host of the Maid in Cyberspace/Festival Htmlles. In English and French.

SubRosa. "A reproducible cyberfeminist cell of cultural researchers committed to combining art, activism, and politics to explore and critique the effects of the intersections of the new information and biotechnologies on women's bodies, lives, and work."

Sullivan, Laura (USA). Hypertextualizing Autobiographies. (Part of the Electro-Pedagogies Web by Anthony Rue and Jane Love.) A theoretical mandala.

Teran, Michelle (Canada). 2.4_interference_interaction. Maid in Cyberspace/Les HTMlles Festival de Cyberart 2003.
---. Website.

Theodorou, Lina (Greece). The Test. A timed quiz. Part of the Medi@terra Festival, the first Mediterranean and Balkan Art and Technology Festival. Athens, Greece. 1999.

Thiel, Tamiko (USA) and Zara Houshmand (USA). Manzanar: Gardens of the Heart. A VRML exploration of the garden and prison that was an American internment camp for the Japanese during WWII. In Japanese, Farsi and English. 1998-1999. 4.0 browsers or higher only, plus VRML plug-in.

Thomas, Sue (UK). Land.
---. Lines. Part of Lux: Notes for an Electronic Writing, 1999.
---. Revolver. A cyclic text about the clash of old and new technologies.
---. Hello, World: Travels in Virtuality: Website and links to works.

(See also Hoskin, Teri and Sue Thomas.)

Thorington, Helen (USA). Director. Turbulence.
---. North Country. Part One. A mystery with skeletal remains. Published by Turbulence. 1996.
---. North Country. Part Two. Published by Turbulence. 1997.
---. Solitaire, A narrative. A card game. 1998. Maid in Cyberspace: HTMlles 2000.
---. Home Page.

Thorne, Kika (Canada). Girl Gang. Lesbian fiction. 1997. (Offline)
"Sex Radical Filmmaker Lets It All Hang Out." by Cameron Bailey. Now Magazine, 17-23 July 1997.

Toronto Webgrrls (Canada). Women on the Web.

Tremblay, Elène (Canada). Chagrins. Maid in Cyberspace/Festival Htmlles 1997 . En français.

Trudel, Pascale (Canada). Amazone. In English and French. 1997.
---. Synchronicité. Requires RealPlayer. In English and French. 1998.
---. Studio Dragon: Website.

Turre, Michele (USA). Tired Landscapes. SIGGRAPH 2000.
---. Tree Fix: Negotiating Regrets and Disaffections, SIGGRAPH 99.
---. Web Art: home page.

Undercurrents (with Coco Fusco, USA/Cuba). An on-line discussion exploring the interconnections of cyberfeminism, new technologies, postcoloniality and globalization. Moderators: Irina Aristahrkova, Maria Fernandez, Coco Fusco and Faith Wilding. Ongoing since 2002.

V

Vesna, Victoria (USA). Bodies INCorporated. 1996.
---. Cellular Trans_Actions. 2001.
---. zero@wavefunction: nano dreams and nightmares.

Vissar, Wendy. Lesko's Codebox. An exploration of ethno-anthropology.

Vukovic, Katarina Peovic (Croatia). Hypertext(ual) consciousness. Literature (?) on new media. Artefact 03.

Vukov, Tamara (Pomegrenade; Canada). Balkan Meditations. Festival de Cyberart: Circulation 01/Htmlles 06. 2003.
---. The War Game Room.

Waligore, Marilyn (USA). Nagasaki, SIGGRAPH 99.

Walker, Linda Marie (Australia). Born of Stars. Part of Lux: Notes for an Electronic Writing, 1999.
---. The Crowds Have All Gone Home, Now: Chorally Yours xx. Part of the Ensemble Logic + Choragraphy Web, 1998.

Wallace, Linda (Australia), Curator. Probe: Explorations into Australian Computational Space. An exhibition of Australian new media arts at the Australian Embassy in Beijing. October 15-24, 1999.

Web Artworks by Canadian Women. 1997.

Webgrrls International. Women on the Web. Many chapters worldwide.

Weidenhammer, Lori (Canada). Brain Dress A. Postcards from the Feminist Utopia, Mentoring Artists for Women's Art, 1998.
---. Brain Dress B. Postcards from the Feminist Utopia, Mentoring Artists for Women's Art, 1998.

Weight, Jenny (Australia). (See geniwate.)

Weintraub, Annette (USA). Crossroads. SIGGRAPH 2000. Requires Flash and QuickTime plugins, 4.0+ browser only.
---. Day of the Dead.
---. Life Support. 2003.
---. Pedestrian: Walking as Meditation and the Lure of Everyday Objects. Published by Turbulence. 3.0 browser or higher.
---. Website.

Werner, Marta (USA). The Flight of A821: Dearchiving the Proceedings of a Birdsong. Electronic Book Review 6. A hypertext study of an Emily Dickinson poem. 1998.
---. Radical Scatters: An Electronic Archive of Emily Dickinson's Late Fragments and Related Texts, 1870-1886. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2000.
---, et al. "A Nosegay To Take To Battle: The Civil War Wounding of Emily Dickinson." The Classroom Electric: Dickinson, Whitman, and American Culture.

White, Kim. The Minotaur Project. 2001. Where the bull meets the machine. Shortlisted for the Electronic Literature Organization's Award for Poetry, 2001. Requires FlashPlayer.

white, terri-ann (Australia). deep immersion. A project at the trAce Online Writing Community,

Whitehead, Helen (UK). Mirror, Mirror.
---. Time to Write. Published in My Millennium: the trAce Anthology, October 1999.
---. Visions and Dreams. MA Dissertation, 1999.
---. Web, Warp, Weft. A complex work exploring the relationships between the making of textiles and the making of the web. A Year of the Artist Award Winner, 2001.
---. Editor, Kids on the Net.
See also Leonie Winson and Helen Whitehead.

Wight, Gail (USA). Hereditary Allegories: A Study in Genetics.

Wilson, Josephine (Australia.) (See Carroli, Linda and Josephine Wilson.)

Winslow, Maria (USA). Electro Magnetic Poetry. 1995-2000. Honourable Mention, Ars Electronica 1996. (Offline)

Winson, Leonie (UK). Dark Lethe. A collaborative story writing environment and a hyperfiction fantasy. 1995-1999.
---, Curator. Re@ctive Writing: Re@ctive Interviews. Online Writers' Community.

Winson, Leonie (UK) and Helen Whitehead (UK). Cave Bytes. A timeline and history of the Nottingham Caves. Commissioned by the NOW97 Nottingham Festival. 1997.

Wohlgemuth, Eva (Austria). Identity Jam.

Women on the Web, special issue. CIAC (Centre d'international d'art contemporain de Montréal) 8, September 1999.

Wortzel, Adrianne (USA). Electronic Chronicles.
---. Website, including robotic installations and performance work.

Wysocki, Anne Frances (USA). Website. Creative and critical works. Netscape recommended.

Yoon, Jin-Me (Canada). imagining communities (bojagi). In English and Korean. Reflections on mothers and daughters, community, citizenship and memory.

Zapp, Andrea (Germany/England). Last Entry: Bombay, 1st of July. Collaborative web inspired by Virginia Woolf's Orlando, 1997. (Offline)
---. Website.

Zellen, Jody (USA). Ghost City, An interactive urban environment, 1997-2000. SIGGRAPH 99. 3.0 browser or higher only.

Zurkow, Marina (USA). Bachelor Machine.
---. Braingirl! A new kind of wonder woman. 2000.
---. Corrosive Etudes. 1997.
---. Guyana. Ranked number 3 in Entertainment Weekly's top ten multimedia works, 1996.
---. Serve Up a Clown.
---. O Limpidia: Webwhore. Postcards from the Feminist Utopia, Mentoring Artists for Women's Art. (Some parts of this text are no longer on the server.)
---. Website: O -MaticCorp. Netguide's Platinum Award, 1997.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

(by Author)

Introduction

To have work considered for inclusion in the Gallery,
please e-mail Carolyn Guertin
<carolyn.guertin@utoronto.ca>.
Preference will be given to things native to electronic spaces.

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Contents and commentary of Assemblage © Carolyn Guertin, University of Toronto, Canada, 1995-2005
All images © the authors or artists, reproduced by permission.
In association with the trAce Online Writing Centre at Nottingham Trent University, UK

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