Cyber.Labia: Gendered Thoughts and Conversations on
Cyber Space, is a chapbook with
artwork, musings and interviews on women and computers
published by Tela Press in 2005.
This
work features interviews with author and cyber theorist
Anne Balsamo, essayist and journalist Paulina Borsook,
environmental activist Sheila Davis of the Silicon Valley
Toxics Coalition and cyberactivist Art McGee of the Media
Justice Network. The print version includes a DVD featuring
the music video with excerpts of Pilar's live performance
of Computers Are A Girl's
Best Friend.
Please do not try to print out
the PDF - the images and text have been highly compressed
to improve downloading time on the web. You can buy the
print copy of the book for $15 US Dollars, including shipping
and handling. Print
versions can be ordered by sending an email to prabapilar@earthlink.net.
cyber: redes informaticas de comunicacion
(Larousse)
translation: information web for communication
labia: facilidad
para hablar con gracia (Larousse)
translation: ability
to speak with grace
 
  
I am exploring themes of e-waste, e-work,
porn, and Internet geography through the Cyber.Labia series
of digital collages. Some of the images from the series
depict what have become very routine views of women from
online pornographic web sites superimposed on maps of
the geography of Internet use. Implicit to this overlay
is the reflection that the pornography is made in the
Third World, with the Internet traffic coming to the First
World - while the hazardous waste is flowing in the opposite
direction. Additionally, four pieces collage images of
manufacturing, overseas recycling - which includes children
dismantling hazardous waste - and workers of the e-revolution
onto the abstracted contemporary maps of internet usage.
Related
project: Computers
Are A Girl's Best Friend
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