Technothêly
logia
Dates:
21 July – 2 September 1995
Artists:
Michele Barker and Anna Munster, Linda Dement, Natasha Dwyer, Heather Fernon, Janina Green, Pat Hoffie, Diane Mantzaris, Marion Marrison, Noni Nixon, Lyndall Phelps, Patricia Piccinini, Elena Popa, Lynne Sanderson, June Savage, Jill Scott, Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski, Suzanne Treister, Edite Vidins, Kylie Williams
Curator:
Zara Stanhope
Location:
Monash University Gallery
Monash University, Clayton Campus
About the exhibition
Concerned with the nature and impact of new technologies, this group exhibition featured over thirty works by Australian women artists. Whether critical, personal or humorous in tone, selected works shared a questioning stance toward the utopian belief in scientific innovation.
Highlighting the significant contributions of women in the field of new media art, the exhibition included computer-generated imagery, video and interactive installations.
Topical issues ranged from reproductive medicine, animal experimentation and interventions in natural resources use to the seductive allure of pharmaceuticals . Other works engaged with new and recent critical discourses on technology, such as the concept of the cyborg and cyberfeminism.
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Image: Elena Popa, Robot Cycle 1992 (still), colour video; 3 minutes 15 seconds. Courtesy of the artist