e-[d]entity: Female Perspectives on Identity in Digital Environments

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Collection: Curated Compilations

e-[d]entity: Female Perspectives on Identity in Digital Environments is a two-part collection of videoworks created from 1982-2000 that explores the cyber environment and how it affects, expands, confuses, and involves female identity.

Curated by Kathy Rae Huffman.

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Arghyro Paouri

Etant donne le bleu (Given the Blue)

1992 | 00:02:00

Etant Donné le Bleu (Given the Blue) is a visual narrative—images breaking in a parallel universe, the realm of science fiction and the fantastic. The repetition, multiplication, and mechanization…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Future

Ericka Beckman

Hiatus

1999 | 00:30:00

Madi plays an interactive on-line computer game in the privacy of her apartment. Wearing a computer corset that stores her programs in a "Garden Interface", she propels her go-go cowgirl construct…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Experimental Film, Future

Marina Grzinic, Aina Smid

On the Flies of the Market Place

1999 | 00:07:00

On the Flies of the Market Place deals with the idea of the European space, divided and sacrificed. In a visually surreal world of facts and emotions—using documents from books and magazines—the…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: European Film/Video, History

Kristin Lucas

Watch Out for Invisible Ghosts

1996 | 00:05:00

This mock-virtual environment is a playground for the imagination. Equipped with helmet, goggles, and a basic understanding of early video game strategies, the artist morphs into an adventureland…

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Tags: Future

Branda Miller

U & I dOt cOm

1999 | 00:18:42

U & I dOt cOm is an experimental narrative/documentary hybrid about Zoey, a teenage girl who negotiates her identity in cyberspace. Dreaming about the perfect true love, she secretly navigates 3-…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Family, Future, Youth/Childhood

Max Almy

Leaving the 20th Century

1982 | 00:11:00

Believing that we are, "dragging our feet into the 21st Century," Almy made this video trilogy to celebrate technology and the future in an ironic melange of politics, sociology, sexuality, and…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Future, Video History

Rebeca Bollinger

Alphabetically Sorted

1994 | 00:05:18

Alphabetically Sorted is a scrolling list of 644 keywords downloaded from CompuServe and spoken by “Victoria: High Quality,” a speech synthesis program.This title is only available on e-(d)entity.…

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Tags: Future, Language

Lynn Hershman Leeson

Seduction of a Cyborg

1994 | 00:06:00

A poetic allegory about technology's invasion of the body and the destruction of the immune system, witnessing the pollution of history that drowns us. Sponsored by the CICV, Belfort, France.This…

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Tags: Future

Julia Meltzer, Amanda Ramos

(chatlandia)

2000 | 00:03:00

(chatlandia) uses the public bathroom stall as format and metaphor for Internet relay chat lines (IRCs). The video's soundtrack is composed from transcripts of actual IRC sessions; the conversations…

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Tags: Future

Erin Seymour

code switching

1999 | 00:05:52

"code switching began as a contemporary reaction to Adrian Piper's Cornered (1988). It goes on to explore the fracturing of contemporary identity within modern culture, and the mechanisms by which…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Future, Media Analysis

Cornelia Sollfrank

have script, will destroy

2000 | 00:15:00

“For quite some time the Hamburg artist Cornelia Sollfrank has been researching female hackers and found that hacking is a field completely under male domination. Nonetheless she was able to produce…

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Tags: Feminism, Future

Linda Wallace

lovehotel

2000 | 00:06:45

lovehotel uses excerpts from the book Fleshmeat by Australian Internet artist Francesca da Rimini, detailing her life online from 1994 to 1997. “Linda Wallace’s video lovehotel is about the…

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Tags: Future

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