Selected Feminist Internet Projects:
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Tomorrow’s Nipple, 2018
The Photographers Gallery, London / IAM, Barcelona
Commissioned by The Photographers’ Gallery, Tomorrow’s Nipple is a collaborative film exploring body politics, representation, and censorship in digital spaces. Composed of found and original footage, interwoven with an abstracted script derived from collective readings and collaborations, the film reflects on the shifting boundaries between bodies, images, and algorithms. Presented publicly in the gallery’s atrium space, the film’s deteriorated aesthetic reflects the instability of online representation, asking, how can an algorithm know what gender it’s looking at? Tomorrow’s Nipple looked to capture a moment in digital culture, a time marked by the rise of algorithmic scrutiny and gendered panic.
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Queering Voice AI: Syb, 2021
UAL Creative Computing Institute, London
Beginning as a one-week course at the University of the Art’s London’s Creative Computing Institute Queering Voice AI saw a team of majority trans and non-binary people come together to create a voice interface purposed towards their community. The result of which was Syb, a prototype voice interface imbued with a unique personality, that promotes trans joy and connects users to queer and trans media. The project was awarded the inaugural New New Fellowship in 2022 and featured in The Feminist Designer, edited by Alison Lanier, and published by MIT in 2023.
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Envisions, 2021
Hygiene Museum, Dresden
Developed in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, Envisions invited people from across Europe to collectively imagine alternative futures for artificial intelligence, a few years before the rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT. Through a series of workshops, participants examined how algorithms shape our daily lives, questioning who holds agency and power in their creation. The project culminated in a collectively designed film and a paper, presented at the Hygiene Museum Dresden, proposing speculative futures which rethink AI’s role in society, futures which in which people have the agency to determine the technological futures they inherit.
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Antisemitism & the Internet, 2021
Mozfest, Online
As the internet is the primary forum for visual media, it has also become a space in which visual hate is shared. On the right, iterations of Antisemitism have taken a specific form in an attempt to circumvent regulation online, hidden within usernames and comedic or abstract imagery. These abstracted images operate as signs, and symbols, signalling views covertly. While, on the left, Antisemitism finds itself embedded into anticapitalist memes and political imagery, circulating freely. The pervasiveness of Antisemitism online inevitably leads to real-life violence, with Antisemitic hate crimes being at their highest since World War 2. This film looks to unpack these iterations of coded Antisemitism through which you can gain the tools to recognise it and understand the pressing issues facing Jewish people online and IRL.
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Feminist Internet Residency 2022-2024
UAL Creative Computing Institute, London
Supported by University of the Art’s London’s Creative Computing Institute, The Feminist Internet Residency was set up support emerging artists and designers developing work which critically engages with emerging technology through a queer and feminist lens. Recipients awarded the residency included Ama Ogwo, Honey Baker and Eliza Perraki.
Memestrilism
Ama Ogwo
Memestrilism explores the digitisation of minstrelsy and the ventriloquism of Blackness online. Working with found footage from social media and the minstrel shows of the 20th century Ama collapses time to illustrate how racism has taken on a new but familiar form in the digital age.
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Orkin
Honey Baker
Orkin is an ‘advertisement’ which speculates on the future of reproductive technology and how it intersects with the climate crisis. Raising pertinent questions about the ongoing battle against reproductive rights and autonomy, exploring our relationship to gender and biopolitics through speculative fiction.
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Eliza Perraki
A Small Arrow
How are we transformed when the internet extends reality, yet simultaneously reshapes and destabilises our perception of it? A Small Arrow Looping Backward is an attempt to map cyberspace, a guide for those lost within it. Yet in the process, the work itself becomes lost, shifting form as a digital scroll that mirrors our disorientation.
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Embodying Horizons 2023
UAL Creative Computing Institute, London
At a time when bodies are increasingly entwined with technology, the programme of events curated during Embodying Horizons, explored how virtual and augmented realities could become spaces for liberation through queer and feminist practice. Participants explored how digital spaces might be reimagined through speculative function, exploring how the virtual body could be a site of resistance, expression, and transformation.
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Cyberfeminism Index 2023
Feminist Internet was featured in Cyberfeminism Index, an online and print archive curated by Mindy Seu, in recognition of our contributions to the field. The archive traces over thirty years of intersecting practices connecting feminism, technology, and activism.
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Tenderithms 2024
Softer, London / HEAD, Geneva
Initially delivered as part of Softer London before being brought to HEAD Genéve, Tenderithms is a talk and workshop programme aimed at redefining our algorithmic present through a paradigm of care and tenderness. The featured talk was delivered as part of 'Assembling Intelligence: Symposium' at HEAD. During the following workshop participants engaged in conversations with AI companion tools, conducting a variety of experiments, interrogating new modes of technological intimacy.
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Queer and trans people have long reshaped their identities as a means of assimilation and survival. Now, digital spaces create new thresholds for embodiment, where virtual bodies rendered in pixels and shaders offer strategies for resistance and self-determination. Crossings, initially delivered as a lecture at the Institute of Post-Natural Studies in Madrid, explores the parallels between historical acts of gender-crossing and the potential of digital spaces for identity construction. It asks how the design of virtual bodies might emancipate us from the limitations of the physical, and what role they can play in resisting dominant narratives of gender and sexuality. Could we imagine futures where virtual embodiment is not merely a form of escape, but a radical act of self-authorship?
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