Kathy Rae Huffman
FROM CYBERFEMINISM
UNTIL NOW
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Kathy Rae Huffman’s lecture From Cyberfeminism Until Now demonstrates how cyberfeminism has connected women and gender-marginalized individuals in the digital sphere since the early 1990s. The movement combined theoretical approaches with practical action and utilized digital technologies to challenge existing power structures in the worlds of technology and media. Online forums, artistic projects, and digital interventions created new spaces for female perspectives and opportunities for influence. The works of the collective VNS Matrix are among the early influential examples, while contemporary digital activism demonstrates how feminist practice continues to critically examine power relations, platform companies, algorithmic cultures, and global inequalities.
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Kathy Rae Huffman
is a curator, networker, and author. Since the early 1980s, she has curated media exhibitions, produced artistic works for television, served as a juror for competitions, given lectures, and coordinated events for international media art festivals and art initiatives.
In 1997, Huffman co-founded FACES: Gender/Technology/Art, an online community for women. From 1996 to 2000, she co-authored the multimedia column Pop~Tarts for Telepolis Journal. In 2020, she curated the exhibition “Digital Power: Activism, Advocacy and the Influence of Women Online” for ACM SIGGRAPH.
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