Nancy Mauro-Flude
N.Mauro-Flude at Ghetto Bienalle Haiti. Photo: Marcia Flude CC-by-ShareAlike3.0 | |
Lives in | Hobart lutruwita Tasmania |
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Website | Linktree, Mastodon |
Nancy Mauro-Flude is an artist, feminist theorist and digital caretaker. Her research is driven by the demystification of technology and the ‘mystification’ that lies in and through the performance of the machinic assemblage. The talismanic logic of island cultures and medium experimentation are foundations for her work.
Under various aliases and in varigated cooperations, Nancy actively works to fuse radical forms of self-determination by introducing experimental pedagogy to relatively conservative and weakly networked regions. Her work is described as “…focusing on the effects of social, cultural, and intellectual diversity (among other factors)…nurturing nuanced concepts of identity within the electronic space, as is the case of Sister0 a virtual avatar who, in reality, is a facilitator and its actions are those of a medium, whether on a computer in a hacklab in Romania, a voodoo ceremony in Haiti or in a classroom in Tasmania (see suburb action performance piece Error_in_Time() by Nancy Mauro-Flude, from 2012)” Utopias of Technological Art: The State of the Question Fifty Years On Artnodes 2013.
"...Gray magics, hijackings, driftings and seizures of power the sensitive and subversive subterfuges by which she urges, twists and explores the aesthetic politic of the open source spirit" (Anne Goldenberg, 2013) ".dpi feminist journal of art and digital culture."
Alumni of Piet Zwart Institute, co founder of Moddr part of the WORM venue in Rotterdam. International Program Committee & Art Jury for ISEA
She develops, designs and delivers "Computing Art, Technology, and Materiality research integrated teaching"
Nancy is elected member of "Digital Ethnography Research Centre" and the "Post Carbon Research Centre".
Founder of Critical Media Coven and long-term member of the Genderchangers home brewed since 1998, working to actively change the ‘gender’ of technology. Involves projects such as systerserver, Eclectic Tech Carnival, School for AC⌁DC+, Tactical Magick Faerie Circuits, Bag Lady 2.0 that specialise in "Custom Built Interfaces/Electronic Performance Tools and highly entertaining, interactive performance" as quoted by Creative Australia.
Selected Projects[edit]
- sister0 electric theatric Operation was a translocal 8 hour performance installation between Waag Soceity / Theatrum Anatomicum Amsterdam and ArtSpace Gallery Sydney, Sunday 17 August 2003 as a part of Connected: LiveArt.
- Paraphernalia Live performance and Custom HID sound tools (2015-9)
- Error_in_Time() Live Code Poetry performance Art of Hacking Netherlands New Media Art institute, and Transmediale (2014-5)
- The Feminist Server Stack Networked performance, Transmediale (2015).
- Divination Divination (2016) DarkMofo MONA Museum New and Old Art Tasmania
- CyberFeminst Bedsheet Transfigured 2018 - 2019 in collaboration with Linda Dement.
- A Chrystaline Sphere 2022.
Selected Curatorial work[edit]
- Economythologies EMLX 2020 - ongoing Critical thinking, making and trading for the New World Disorder, an emphasis on voices from the Asia-Pacific region, participants to collectively imagine new aesthetic ways of (re-)configuring art and economy
- encoding_experience/10_October_2008_18:00_EST.* Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmania 2008.
- TacticalMagick.net Networked Art Forms: Tactical Magick Faerie Circuits, 2013.
- Microbites.me Microbites of Innovation. Art Track ACM Creativity and Cognition, 2017.
- Internet Lore Asia Writing for the Internet: Internet lore in Asia. Asia Research Institute, 2018.
- Vvitchvvave Post Digital Aesthetics Symposium and Exhibition, Siteworks, 2019.
- Asemic Runway 2022.
Selected publications[edit]
- Nancy Mauro-Flude (2023) "Holistic Computing" Medium.
- Nancy Mauro-Flude & Jo Pollitt (2023) "Choreographic Computabilties", _Leonardo_ 2023; 56 (1): 50–57. doi:10.1162/leon_a_02301.
- Nancy Mauro-Flude & Yoko Akama (2022) "A Feminist Server Stack: Co-designing Feminist Web Servers to Reimagine Internet Futures", CoDesign International Journal for Art and Design, 18:1, 48-62. DOI.
- Mauro-Flude, Nancy (2022) "Caring about the Vast Non-Existent Horizon: Cosmographic infrastructures and performances of care in twenty-first-century feminist art practice", Care Ethics and Art an anthology. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780367765651 Chapter 16 pp 212-223.
- Mauro-Flude, Nancy (2021) "Writing the Feminist Internet: A Chthonian Feminist Internet Theory for the Twenty First Century" In Eds., A. Maddox, R. W .Gehl, T. Cinque. The Dark Social: Online Practices of Resistance, Motility and Power. Continuum Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 35:5, 788-804. doi:10.1080/10304312.2021.1983260.
- Mauro-Flude, Nancy; Geck, Kate (2020) "Taxonomy for the Contiguous Spectrum: Corporeal Computing futures and the Performance of Signal Transmission" 26th International Symposium on Electronic Art ISEA ISEA2020: WHY SENTIENCE? Montrea, pp. 275-282, ISBN: 978-2-9816413-2-8.
- Mauro-Flude, Nancy (2019) "Vessels of Infinite Veracity: Command-line Incantation" Art+Australia Journal. Outside Issue: 6. (56.1) December.
- Mauro-Flude, Nancy (2019), "Performing The Internet", Post Digital Folklore, Digital Humanities and Scholarly Research Trends in the Asia-Pacific, Pen:IGI-Global.
- Mauro-Flude, Nancy (2015) "Don’t mess with my settings", AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 8.
- Mauro-Flude, Nancy (2016) "Divine Trash Strata", Unlikely: Journal for Creative Arts Issue 2, University of Melbourne.
- Mauro-Flude, Nancy (2016) "Paraphernalia A Design Approach for Electronic-Performance Tools", Leonardo MIT Volume 48, 3. June 2015.
- Mauro-Flude, Nancy (2015) "The Intimacy of the Command Line", Scan | Journal of Media Arts Culture Volume 10, 2. 2013.
- Mauro-Flude, N (2015), 'Linux for Artists: Embodiment & Nix Modus Operandi', in A Mansoux & M de Valk (eds.), FLOSS+Art, GOTO10, Poitiers, France. MUTE, London, pp. 206-223.
- editor, with Sher Doruff, Connected: LiveArt, Amsterdam: Waag Society, 2005, 160 pp.
Selected interviews[edit]
- Josephine Bosma, "Pandemic Exchange: How Artists Experience the COVID-19 Crisis" Institute of Network Cultures, 2021.
- Alana Hunt, Activating the textures of Post-Digital Aesthetics. A conversation with Nancy Mauro-Flude, Tom Penney, 28 February 2019.
- Leandro Palacio, "Coding technology for a eulogy to Tasmanian elder. Valetudo", 2013. Video.
- Ragna Rök Jóns, Is the 4th wave of feminism digital?, 19 August 2013.
- Kendall Grady, you will _KNOW how_ : an interview with Nancy Mauro-Flude, 31 Oct 2011.