Technology and Feminist Posthuman Representations in Cyberfeminist Art
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Cyberfeminism, Feminist Posthumanism, Cyberfeminist Art, Technology, BodyAbstract
This article aims to analyze artistic productions considered in relation to cyberfeminism—which proposes a feminist politics along the axes of body, identity, and technology—within the framework of feminist posthumanist thought. Positioned in opposition to deterministic gender identities and the domination imposed on the female body and nature, cyberfeminism overlaps with feminist posthumanism in its critique of anthropocentric subjectivity, its challenge to hierarchical relations between human and non-human (animate or inanimate) entities, and its reconstruction of possible relationalities. Both cyberfeminism and feminist posthumanism treat technology as a transformative force and creative apparatus, offering responses to speciesism through frameworks grounded in hybridity and mixed identity formations. Cyberfeminist art is one of the domains where these responses find both concrete and metaphorical expression. In this context, the study examines various artistic practices at the intersection of cyberfeminism and feminist posthumanism, exploring how concepts such as technology, body, gender, and subjectivity are addressed in cyberfeminist art representations. The analysis includes the works of collectives like VNS Matrix, who define themselves as cyberfeminist artists, as well as those of artists such as Lynn Hershman Leeson, ORLAN, and Hito Steyerl, who, though not explicitly adopting the cyberfeminist label, engage with issues central to both cyberfeminism and feminist posthumanism. Supported by the artists' own narratives, their works are analyzed in light of the intersecting points between cyberfeminist art and feminist posthumanism, revealing a shared ground rooted in interspecies relational subjectivities and hybrid identity formations.
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