Cyberfeminism vs Punk
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Cyberfeminism comes from Digital Art and Punk from Counterculture. One is aesthetic and the other style. They are reached for with some of the same intent, which is where they get confused.
Cyberfeminism
A movement the Australian collective VNS Matrix claimed for itself in 1991, and which the theorist Sadie Plant named independently in Britain at the same moment. Its manifesto travelled by fax, by mail, as a wheatpaste poster, as a billboard, and as an online post. Against a computer culture that wanted to leave the body behind, it put slime and sex back at the centre.
Punk
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A DIY objection to the authority of the tidy, made by cutting, pasting and dirtying.
| Cyberfeminism | Punk | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1991–2000s | 1970s–1980s |
| Family | Digital Art | Counterculture |
| Kind | Aesthetic | Style |
| Cues | Heavy sans lines warped over a spherical bulge, each line set at a different size / A two color sheet, black on pale pink, with a white circle punched through the middle / A tiled border of eye like organic forms fringed with radiating hairs / The group's name embedded as one line of the text rather than signed at the bottom | Cut-and-paste letters / Photocopier noise / Handwriting / Ragged placement |
| Best used for | Making a sheet that argues against the clean and sterile picture of the future in a show or a publication about technology · Designing a declaration meant to travel as the same single image across posters, billboards, and network posts | Voicing dissent against the rules · Giving events and communities a raw voice |
| Type | Set heavy sans and change the size line by line. Warp the lines over a sphere and abandon alignment as a goal. | Mix newsprint letters, handwriting and stamps |
| Composition | Punch a circle in the middle and pack the text into it. Fill the border with a repeated motif and leave no white space. Hold no fixed format, so one sheet serves as poster and as billboard alike. | Deliberate misalignment and overlap; disturb even the margins |
| Material | Hold to two colors, pale pink and black. Draw the imagery with organic lines that suggest bodily organs, set deliberately against the circuits and grids of machine imagery. | Copier paper, tears, black plus a warning color |
| Caution | Borrow the imagery but soften the words and the hostility that is the actual content drains out, leaving nothing but retro decoration. | Borrowed rebellion is hollow. Decide what you are protesting first. |