Seeding the ground for counter culture or a court jester to the oligarchy?

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, December 9, 2015

I recently published a paper ‘Noli turbare circulos meos: Don’t mess with my settings‘ in Art+Media No. 8 AM Časopis za studije umetnosti i medija, broj 8, 2015 aka AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, Issue No. 8, 2015, topic of issue: Postfeminism, Transfeminism and Feminist Subjectivities Beyond Identity Politics. This is a discussion [...]

The Artist is staged : “I am Googable”, therefore, I am

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, October 25, 2015

There was a time in the early 2000s when wireless Internet hubs in public spaces became popular within the computer sub-cultures, arguably spawning future Anons when the aspiration was not to be ‘Googable’ but to be mercurial and faceless. In many cases, you only become aware of the name of the actual real life person [...]

Favour Economy: archive of audio favours

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, October 18, 2015

Coinciding with the financial year to propose value of a different kind, the inaugural 2015-16 volume of FavourEconomy has officially commenced! FavourEconomy is an archive of audio favours created by women for women who work in the arts – established by Claire Field in collaboration with curatorial colleagues, Alex Pedley and Bronwyn Tracey. The women-only [...]

Guided by an atypical faerie tale landscape.

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, September 27, 2015

A decade ago referring to the conundrums the Imaginaria UK’s first digital arts prize brought along with it – Ewan Morrison and Matthew Fuller on Metamute noted that “In the cultural arena, there’s nothing quite like a prize to get people’s backs up…prizes never fail to set a well rehearsed communal tirade in motion – [...]

Trondheim Academy of Fine Art Calling…

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, September 1, 2015

I am thrilled to announce that recently I was invited to take up a position on a one year contract as a Professor of Art and Technology, The Trondheim Academy of Fine Art in the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. As I am the MFA course leader at [...]

Mirror Party Sisters’ Play by sister0 with sisters

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, August 31, 2015

_Mirror Party_ foregrounds the ephemeral conditions of a system and our embodied position within a network. In this eclectic convergence – not unlike the feminist movement in its various waves and standpoints – a code is handed on via an informal network of sources. Just as a Mexican wave unequivocally spreads as a ripple across [...]

SWEET TRIBOLOGY international radio art

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, July 21, 2015

Sweet Tribology is a radiophonic picnic by Julia Drouhin curator. Produced by LABoral, an industrial creation and art center located in Gijon, Spain, 15th of August 2015. Two hours of sound art will be broadcast in public spaces through radios when the audience play and eat the music on chocolate records. I have been invited [...]

Aerith’s Materia

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, June 28, 2015

The 2015 Underbelly Arts Festival takes place August 1 – 2 on Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour. It showcases some of Australia’s boldest new voices in contemporary art, in a festival context unlike any other. A part of this is Island Salon which features an exhaustive array of women artists working across a broad spectrum in [...]

f3mhack – in memory

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, June 16, 2015

Sabeen Mahmud who started a female driven hackspace and cultural centre in Pakistan was murdered in Pakistan on 24th of April 2015. f3mhack was held on and around the date Saturday 23th of May 2015, informal networks of activists and related initiatives from all over the world, dedicated this feminist hackathon to Sabeen. “Never wanted to walk the off-beaten path, she simply [...]

A collection of tender exotics: interview with Lisa Campbell-Smith

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, April 22, 2015

This particular theme stems far from the realm of computer culture and more into dissonant theories and practice in arts, highlighting rare forms of synthesis in diverse incarcerated contexts and systems (domesticity, the hot house, the white cube of the gallery, and the prison). Artistic concepts, dramatic subjects and characters are scientifically analyzed, figures transformed [...]