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The costume from this performance
- made from recycled CD Roms -
on exhibition:above:
Eco-Visions: Bay Area Artists Exploring Global
Ecological Issues,
at the Gallery at Thoreau,
the Thoreau Center for Sustainability, San Francisco;
and below, in
WHAT'S
NOT TO LOVE?: Chicano / Latino Whimsy, Parody, Satire
and Humor
exhibition at Galería
de la Raza, San Francisco.
 
This project is based on extensive
research into gender and access to communications technologies
and interviews with:
Anne Balsamo, whose first book, Technologies of
the Gendered Body (Duke UP) examined the gendered
implications of emergent bio-technologies. She is working
on a new book called Designing Culture: A work of
the Technological Imagination that investigates the
reproductive qualities of new media technologies. Currently
she is the President of Onomy Labs, professor in Gender
Studies and Interactive Media at the University of Southern
California and director of academic programs for the Annenberg
Center’s Institute of Multimedia Literacy.
Paulina Borsook is the author of the forthcoming Wired
for Sex: An Illustrated Guide to Sex, Technology, and
the Way We Live Today (Peachpit/2004) and of Cyberselfish/A
Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture
of High-Tech" (Public Affairs/2000). Her fiction,
humor, essays, and journalism, as published in "Wired",
"Suck", "Mother Jones", "Salon",
and "The New York Times", have entertained,
enlightened, and in some cases, enraged her readers for
more than a decade. She is at loris@well.com
Sheila Davis has worked on electronic recycling and environmental
sustainability issues for the past eight years. While
Community Development Director for Materials for the Future
Foundation (MFF) Davis worked to integrate environmental
and community economic development goals, implemented
the first curbside residential collection pilot program
for electronic waste and was instrumental in implementing
a ban on televisions and computer monitors from California
municipal landfills. Currently, Davis serves as Project
Director of the Silicon Valley Toxic Coalition
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