# Cyberfeminism (サイバーフェミニズム)

> 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.

- IndexStyle No.541 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/cyberfeminism
- Kind: Aesthetic · Family: Digital Art · Era: 1991–2000s
- Mood: Rebellion, Rebellion, Play
- Color cues: #EAD3EA / #FFFFFF / #000000 (cues taken from reference works, not a fixed palette)

## Defining characteristics

- 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

## 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

## Composition recipe

- Typography & lettering: Set heavy sans and change the size line by line. Warp the lines over a sphere and abandon alignment as a goal.
- Layout & structure: 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.
- Material & texture: 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.

## What to avoid

Borrow the imagery but soften the words and the hostility that is the actual content drains out, leaving nothing but retro decoration.

## Application checklist

Before calling a piece an application of this style, check it against the defining characteristics:

- [ ] 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
- [ ] At least one reference work below has been studied directly
- [ ] The caution above ("What to avoid") has been addressed

## Related styles

- **Net.art (ネット・アート)** — Treats the browser, the link, the transmission error and the network itself as both the material and the site of the work. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/net-art
- **Punk (パンク)** — A DIY objection to the authority of the tidy, made by cutting, pasting and dirtying. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/punk

## Further study

- Rhizome の Net Art Anthology にある宣言文の図版と貼り紙の写真
- 1992年にシドニーの画廊の外壁へ掲げられた巨大看板の記録写真
- 身体を捨てるという当時の技術像に対して出された反論の系譜

## Reference works

- Old Boys Network《100 Anti-Theses of Cyberfeminism》1997 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 4.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:100%20Anti-Theses%20of%20Cyberfeminism.jpg

## Source of record

- Rhizome (New Museum) Net Art Anthology — A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century — https://anthology.rhizome.org/a-cyber-feminist-manifesto-for-the-21st-century

## Machine surfaces

- JSON: https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/cyberfeminism
- Image-generation prompt (legally clean): https://indexstyle.org/styles/cyberfeminism/prompt.txt
- MCP: https://indexstyle.org/mcp (tools: search_styles, get_style, compose_styles; prompts: image-prompt, apply-style)