Session 5: Digital Feminism
December 21, 2020, Monday, 8am EST
Join through Zoom: Meeting ID 880 8691 3297
Aliza Shvarts, Relational Clock (2018)
In dematerialized spaces such as the internet, we’re invited to participate in communities and build relationships as disembodied voices, operating at a distance from our physical forms. In this final seminar, we will explore the kinds of feminist art practices that have arisen in these digital spaces both before and during the pandemic. What does feminism look like when it becomes detached from the physical body? Are digital experiences changing feminism—or has feminism altered the digital experience?
Suggested Reading:
Laurel Ptak, Wages for Facebook (2014): http://wagesforfacebook.com/.
Hito Steyerl, “In Defense of the Poor Image,” e-flux: journal #10, (New York: e-flux, 2009).
Zach Blas, Contra-Internet, e-flux: journal #74, (New York: e-flux, 2016).
Aliza Shvarts is an artist and theorist who takes a queer and feminist approach to reproductive labor and language. Her current work focuses on testimony and the circulation of speech in the digital age. Shvarts received her BA from Yale University and her PhD in Performance Studies from New York University. Her artwork been shown at venues including the Tate Modern in London; Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA in Prague; the Athens Biennale; Universidad de los Andes in Bogota; SculptureCenter, Art in General, and Participant Inc in New York; LACE in Los Angeles; the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia; and Artspace in New Haven, CT. Her writing has been published in Whitechapel Documents in Contemporary Art: Practice, The Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader, TDR/The Drama Review, Women & Performance, and The Brooklyn Rail.