Disruption Network Lab

Researcher and creative technologist Yasmine Boudiaf describes her art practice as “tin foil hat research”. She creates playful projects rooted in deep research methodologies ranging from writing to computing, in order to shed some light on the shape-shifting White Devil tactics behind ruling powers and new technologies. In this podcast, Yasmine Boudiaf walks us through some of her experiences in the corporate world and the performative aspects of negotiating the deeply entrenched British class system. She talks about AI ethics and the theater behind policy-making as well as soft power and Newspeak.

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.

We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with artist, researcher and essayist Cornelia Sollfrank. Here she reflects on the social experiment of cyberfeminism and the early days of net art, as well as on aesthetics of the commons and the copyright system, probing how notions of originality, intellectual property, and collective practice shape contemporary art. By revisiting feminist performance histories and examining the affective infrastructures of digital culture, her work articulates a techno-feminist perspective that unsettles conventional discourses on art, law, and power.