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VNS Matrix «Dirty Work for Slimey Girls» | Sense - Virginia Barratt (VNS Matrix)

VNS Matrix, «Dirty Work for Slimey Girls», 1994
Sense - Virginia Barratt (VNS Matrix) | Screenshot | © VNS Matrix

Categories: Internet

Keywords: Emancipation | Counter Culture | Feminism

Relevant passages:

Inke Arns «Social Technologies Deconstruction, subversion, and the utopia of democratic communication»

Works by VNS Matrix:

All New Gen

Australia

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«Dirty Work for Slimey Girls»

The project which they pursued was one of debunking the masculinist myths which might alienate women from technological devices and their cultural products. They believe that women who hijack the tools of domination and control introduce a rupture into a highly systematised culture by infecting the machines with radical thought, diverting them from their inherent purpose of linear topdown mastery.

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