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Cornelia Sollfrank «Female Extension»
Cornelia Sollfrank, «Female Extension», 1997
© Cornelia Sollfrank


 
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Categories: Internet

Keywords: Feminism | Simulation

Works by Cornelia Sollfrank:

Net Art Generator


 

 Cornelia Sollfrank
«Female Extension»

In 1997 the Hamburger Kunsthalle announced a Net art competition. Cornelia Sollfrank drily countered 'Extension' into the Net with a 'Female Extension': she created 288 international female artists, complete with postal and e-mail addresses. Sollfrank generated individual Net art projects for 127 of these artists, using a computer program that collected random HTML material from the WWW and recombined it automatically. While the Kunsthalle was pleased that so many female artists were taking part – two thirds of the participants were women– the money prizes were awarded to male artists. Sollfrank revealed here intervention, which had remained undiscovered, in a press release. Cornelia Sollfrank was a member of the female artists‘ group –Innen from 1993-96.