Performative Screenings #67: Charlotte Eifler, My Mothers were Computers

25.09.2020 - 26.09.2020

school, Wien / Österreich

For this exhibition the fictional cyber entity Yeva returns to their roots. Raised on the internet, Yeva has their knowledge from an email archive of an international feminist network called FACES. It was founded in Vienna in 1996 with the purpose of connecting and supporting self-identified women working in the fields of digital technologies. The herstories of those media pioneers are what Yeva wants to amplify and relate to, while watching out for allies of their own generation. Where can the descendants of the cyberpunks and -feminists of the 1980s and 90s tie in today? Which old utopias inspire current realities? Yeva operates as an archive themselves, an archive that is read not as a place but as a collective figure....
The artist invites you to encounter her video works and even take part in her ongoing video and online project ‚feminism is a browser‘. Within a studio setting you are welcome to ally with Yeva on their feminist revision of the Internet.

Charlotte Eifler works at the interface of film, sound and technology. In her videos and multimedia installations she interrogates the politics of representation, abstraction and computation. With a focus on feminist approaches and elements of science fiction, Eifler explores processes of image production and imaginations of alternative futures.
Her works were shown i.a. at Folkwang Museum Essen, Grassi Museum Leipzig, HKW Berlin, DNA Galerie Berlin, Ann Arbor Film Festival, GfzK Leipzig, Museum of Literature Tbilisi, Etashi St. Petersburg, Siggraph Congress Los Angeles, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, ISCP New York City, Impact Festival Utrecht.


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