1991 - Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century - VNS Matrix

Text

we are the modern cunt

positive anti reason

unbounded unleashed unforgiving

we see art with our cunt we make art with our cunt

we believe in jouissance madness holiness and poetry

we are the virus of the new world disorder

rupturing the symbolic from within

saboteurs of big daddy mainframe

the clitoris is a direct line to the matrix

VNS MATRIX

terminators of the moral code

mercenaries of slime

go down on the altar of abjection

probing the visceral temple we speak in tongues

infiltrating disrupting disseminating

corrupting the discourse

we are the future cunt

Context

The Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century was a project distributed in 1991 by collective of women artists VNS Matrix who also are the authors (1). In first instance the text was disseminated through multiple media in the city of Adelaide, Australia and subsequently in another places of the country (1). Some of the forms of circulation of the manifesto were fax, electronic mail, postcards, posters, internet messages and photocopies that were distributed in various galleries and museums (2). The viralization of the manifesto led to new versions and translations of this, as well as its reprinting in several journals (1). It's worth to say that with this manifesto, which is a tribute to Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto (4), VNS Matrix coined the term "cyberfeminism", word that in que 90 decade inspired to different artist and gave the way to different conversations about the subject (1).

Authors

VNS Matrix was a collective that started in Adelaida, Australia in 1991, even when they disbanded in 1997, the members of the group make ocationals reunions for working on different projects and presentations (3). The groups was constituded by Virgina Barratt, Julianne Pierce, Francesca da Rimini y Josephine Starrs, whom through their work put in question in a subersive way the relationship between the women and the discourses of control and domination in cyberspace (3). The authors coined the term "cyberfeminism" in A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century, text that has been widely disseminated and distributed (3).

References

(1) https://anthology.rhizome.org/a-cyber-feminist-manifesto-for-the-21st-century

(2) http://editorial.centroculturadigital.mx/notacorta/vns-matrix-en-la-antologia-de-rhizome

(3) https://vnsmatrix.net/about/

Links

URL: http://vnsmatrix.net/the-cyberfeminist-manifesto-for-the-21st-century/#next, https://anthology.rhizome.org/a-cyber-feminist-manifesto-for-the-21st-century

Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20170426231525/https://anthology.rhizome.org/a-cyber-feminist-manifesto-for-the-21st-century