Portfolio of 3 net art works: Performing Eco Feminist Futures

Background This project applied artistic research methods to offer perspectives on conducting computing practices that attend to the social inequalities and ecological consequences of digital technologies, and to raise awareness of what a transformative digital culture aesthetics could yield. The work drew upon Patsy Hallen’s ecofeminist readers and her critique of frontier ethics posited that ‘sustainability is the foundation for morality, not the other way around 2003, 59)’. It is aligned with the artwrk of Anaïs Berck that relates to ‘otherwise-worldings’ in computing that engage in feminist materialist, decolonial aesthetics. Contribution Nancy Mauro-Flude produced three net.art works (A Crystalline_Sphere; Eco-feminist Incantations; Annotating the Feminist Internet) in 2022. The portfolio delivered an account of how digital infrastructure is normalised based on colonial legacies. It contributes new knowledge and findings around the restorative benefits of tuning in to the materiality of computing as a cultural practice, to lead audiences to imagine beyond the known. Significance The significance of the work is evidenced through the following: - Curation by Priya Namana (winner 2019 Redlich Prize) in ‘Topographies of Resistance’ at Blindside ARI (Melbourne); - Presented at #FEAS: Unfinished Business, Spectrum Project Space (ECU Galleries, Perth) - Published in 'Critical Coding Cookbook' which considers computer programming from decolonial frameworks, edited by Prof Katherine Moriwaki (Parsons School of Design, New York); - Presented at the peer-reviewed 'Future Bodies Symposium’ at Virginia Tech, in collaboration with Jo Pollitt (Forrest Fellow, ECU); and - Covered in ABC Media on 4 June 2022.