Son[i]a #384
Cornelia Sollfrank
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Since the 1990s, artist, researcher and essayist Cornelia Sollfrank has developed a practice based on digital media and networks, which quickly found its place among early expressions of net.art, hacking and cyberfeminism. Through her solo works and collaborative projects—such as Frauen und Technik, Innen, Old Boys Network and #purplenoise—, Cornelia Sollfrank has pushed the boundaries of notions of identity, authorship and the commons in the digital sphere, as well as generating spaces for non-hierarchical, distributed knowledge sharing that give rise to experimental ways of imagining the role of art.
In this podcast, we talk to Cornelia Sollfrank about art, technology and gender, and about performance, bodies and networks. We go back to the very early days with collective projects such as Frauen und Technik and OBN—groundbreaking experiences in which the screen opened up to make way for this other enormous, virtual space to be inhabited. A wealth of practices, projects and experiences—which she now refers to as techno-feminism—in a career that has led her to explore the commons, organizational aesthetics, and the role of the law and of copyright in defining (or not defining) where an original work of art begins and ends in the digital realm. In a recent, post-pandemic plot twist, Cornelia raises new questions, focusing her interest on the body and interdependence, through a dialogue with data and the basic act of breathing.
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This podcast is part of New Perspectives for Action. A project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union. Co-produced by Disruption Network Lab.
Conversation: Anna Ramos. Script and sound production: Verónica Lahitte. Post-producción: Roc Jiménez de Cisneros. Voice over: Javiera Cadiz. Breathing choir: Grupo de trabajo de RWM.
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