Knowra Cyberfeminism Cyberfeminism Cyberfeminism explores and challenges gender relations in digital technologies, online culture, and cyberspace through feminist theory, art, and activism.
VNS Matrix : An Australian artist collective whose 1991 cyberfeminist manifesto used provocative language to challenge masculine control of technology. Its manifesto helped give early cyberfeminism an influential artistic and political voice.
Feminist technoscience : An approach that studies how science and technology are shaped by, and help shape, gender and other power relations. It provides a broader framework for examining technology as socially and politically made.
Net.art : Art made for or through the internet, often using networked systems as both medium and subject. Cyberfeminist artists used networked art to contest who could create and inhabit online space.
Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century : A 1991 VNS Matrix text that uses parody and explicit imagery to challenge patriarchal control of technology. Its confrontational style contrasts with cyberfeminist writing focused on theory or institutional critique.
Donna Haraway : An American scholar whose work examines science, technology, feminism, and the boundaries between humans and machines. Her cyborg writing supplied an influential framework for imagining identities beyond fixed gender binaries.
Algorithmic bias : Systematic and unfair differences in algorithmic outcomes associated with social groups or their proxies. Biased systems reveal how gender inequality can persist inside apparently neutral computation.
Riot grrrl : A feminist punk movement that emerged in the early 1990s, combining music, zines, and activism. Its DIY politics and media-making offer a close analogue to cyberfeminist cultural practice.
Postfeminism : A contested term for cultural attitudes that treat feminism as completed, outdated, or primarily a matter of individual choice. Cyberfeminism continues to analyze structural gender power in digital culture rather than assuming equality is achieved.
Old Boys Network : An international cyberfeminist network founded in 1997 to connect feminist artists, theorists, and activists. Its gatherings and projects made cyberfeminism an organized international conversation.
Gender performativity : Judith Butler's account of gender as produced through repeated, socially regulated acts rather than a fixed inner essence. It helps explain how online identities can reproduce or unsettle gender norms through repeated practices.
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