Writing the Feminist Internet

Make or Break & Despoinas Media Coven

TUNE IN
SAT 30 MAY
2PM (AEST)

Next Wave 2020 artists Make or Break present ‘Writing the Feminist Internet’ for ASSEMBLE, this Saturday on radioWAVE. Join them for a collaborative and generative ‘writing with’ session or TUNE IN on the day to radiowave.nextwave.org.au

Artist collectives Make or Break (Connie Anthes and Rebecca Gallo) and Despoinas Media Coven (Nancy Mauro-Flude and Nicole Brimmer) will host a collaborative, generative ‘writing with’ session with as many volunteers as are interested in participating, that responds to a text drafted by Nancy Mauro-Flude in 2018. This text suggests a series of principles and lores for a Feminist Internet within 10 working points **. Participants will meet online to write their own version of this manifesto, riffing off, reimagining, rejecting or rephrasing the original text, with the results being merged at the end of the session and synthesised by Make or Break and Despoinas Media Coven in the form of a live reading or performance. This is the first of a series of live, collaborative, open-ended experiments with clever people that the artists had planned to work with as part of Make or Break’s ‘Influence Operation’ (2020).

Date: Saturday 30 May, 2pm-4pm AEST
Locationhttp://meet.jit.si/writing-the-feminist-internet
Writers will be meeting here, then we will move to a multiple author writing pad – Etherpad, a tool for public collaboration.

Facilitators: Make or Break (Connie Anthes & Rebecca Gallo) + Despoinas Media Coven (Nancy Mauro-Flude and Nicole Brimmer)

** We are working from the position of an open feminism that embraces multiplicity, diversity, gender-bending, queerness, unfixed-ness, becoming, transforming, shifting, making space for underrepresented voices, and not privileging our voices in relation to others.

🐚Steps to prepare🐚

You’ll need an internet-connected device, installed with a Chrome browser.
You may want to read over this text – make notes if that’s your style.
Read the Code of Conduct and Terms of Participation here.
no experience or special software required

Artist collectives Make or Break (Connie Anthes and Rebecca Gallo) and Despoinas Media Coven (Nancy Mauro-Flude and Nicole Brimmer) will host a collaborative, generative ‘writing with’ session with as many volunteers as are interested in participating, that responds to a text drafted by Nancy Mauro-Flude in 2018. This text suggests a series of principles and lores for a Feminist Internet within 10 working points. Participants will meet online to write their own version of this manifesto, riffing off, reimagining, rejecting or rephrasing the original text, with the results being merged at the end of the session and synthesised by Make or Break and Despoinas Media Coven in the form of a live reading or performance. This is the first of a series of live, collaborative, open-ended experiments with clever people that the artists had planned to work with as part of Make or Break’s ‘Influence Operation’ (2020).

Make or Break works across gallery, institution, festival and community contexts to produce a range of process-based projects that are co-authored with the communities they intersect with. These have included creating experimental economies that address precarity and privilege; unveiling speculative monuments; celebrating the invisible labour of strangers and facilitating conversations and workshops as alternatives to traditional forms of research. Make or Break is passionate about exposing invisible labour and deploying artistic methods to question and challenge the social and political systems that influence lives and livelihoods.

Their work, Influence Operation was set to premier at Next Wave Festival 2020.

Despoinas Media Coven (home-brewed since 2008), began as a garage hack space to remove the strict barriers between software users and developers to enable the ‘uninitiated’ into using free software. An autonomous web server to host creative arts projects, based in Hobart, the collective is often joined by satellite agents: artists, programmers, critical engineers, writers, designers, dancers, comrades, curators and thinkers from around the planetary archipelago for to make, to exchange, diversify narratives, strategise and constructively critique -to keep moving with the manifold of time. Despoinas Media Coven was described as a ‘technological coven disguised as an art project’ (WARP Magazine 2013) and continues to host digital literacy sewing circles, stretching networks through museums, galleries, stages, through radiowaves and under waterfalls.