Federica started following the work of Alessia Colletti.
Federica started following the work of Massimiliano Geraci.
Graduate Student, School of Computing and Mathematics
Thesis Title: Feminism and Technoscience: towards a Situated Aesthetics in the Field of New Media
About
The aim of my research is to elaborate a feminist situated aesthetics in the field of new media. With this, I intend a grounded theory of artistic practice capable of overcoming the double bind of utopianism and dystopianism by means of technological situatedness.
For this reason, I assume a technofeminist situated position, drawing on a transcultural and postcolonial feminist framework, which recapitulates and expands the definition of the politics of location, combining it with the notion of situated knowledge inside a geopolitically and historically aware perspective from within technoscience.
The emphasis on spatiality, which permeates many debates on the changes brought about by the employment and diffusion of new information and communication technologies, has equally defined feminist theory and the politics of situated knowledges. What interests me is the reason why, even though there appear to be more differences than similarities in the way the two fields have elaborated the concept of location, as well as related practices, a dialogue between them surely seems possible and also fruitful for more than one reason.
I thus explore these connections, and discuss my choice to adopt a feminist standpoint, in order to find a path to traverse what I define as aesth/ethic technotopias: sites of embodied accountability and creative transformation which, grounding theories and tropes in situated practices, outline critical cartographies overcoming many of the binaries that surround the consideration of the uses and effects of new technologies.
I finally identify the aesth/ethic technotopias in those projects that: firstly, either take place or give voice to the negotiation of subjectivities happening between location and dislocation inside the material-semiotic dimension of technoscapes; secondly, projects which create material as well as virtual networks throughout creatively configured and politically informed actions.
