Final major project #7 Web Residents Refiguring the Feminist Future

This Web Residency featured projects which creatively presented feminism through various using the web. I was interested in finding out the process to develop these projects.

All Directions At Once

Luiza Prado, Berlin, Germany — Jul 04, 2018: Produced a visual narrative reframing the history of birth control.

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“In these four weeks, I will develop a series of works for what I am calling a »GIF essay,« taking advantage of the sedimented nature of the GIF format – in which images are stacked on top of one another for faster download and visualization. This essay is part of a body of work called »A Topography of Excesses,« in which I examine counterhegemonic technologies of birth control vis à vis the colonial production of race, gender, and sexuality. The project starts by looking into the excesses attributed to the bodies, knowledges, and subjectivities of the colonized (too numerous, too sexual, too fertile). I understand the development and transmission of knowledge about herbal birth control technologies to be a response to this desire for colonial domination; one that conceives alternative readings of history and proposes other, multiple futures through practices of radical care and feminist refiguration – and that, in so doing, approaches the space of »excess« as one of intersectional solidarity”(Allahyari, 2018).

I like Prado’s take on his work because you can see that a lot of research has gone into his work and how he has managed to narrow all this down by finding clear  imagery to represent this subject. Perhaps for this project, I might use a double diamond method to achieve an outcome.

Photosynthetic Transgenesis: Chronicles of a Moss Woman

Tesia Kosmalski, Minneapolis, MN/USA — Jul 04, 2018: “Tesia Kosmalski imagines a future for the refigured female body in which »a woman plans to heal her painful skeletal disorder by traveling to a moss-covered volcanic island” (Allahyari, 2018).

In between verses Kosmalski presents a poem with imagery. I like just how they almost portrayed their work as a kind of poetic form of activism.

Having taken pictures from the demonstrations in London against the Sudanese dictatorship, this project showed me how I could potentially turn this into a web-based outcome using my pictures.

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Reference:

Allahyari, M. (2018) ‘ Issue No 0 — Digital Culture, Theory & Art: Web Residents Refiguring the Feminist Future’, Schloss -Post, 12 July. Available at: https://schloss-post.com/web-residents-refiguring-feminist-future/