Panel Statement

Panel: Gender and Technology

Whereas Gender and Technology are at root quite fuzzy concepts leading to the utmost ambiguity and often de (con) structive confusion, Artificial Gender, Natural Technology, and Emergent Mind are quite concrete and offer us the possibility of triangulating ideas into an entirely constructive field of discourse.

• Roy Ascott, UK. A pioneer of cybernetics and telematics in art, Roy Ascott has initiated many global networking projects and published over seventy texts He advises Leonardo, CEC, Ars Electronica, and IMF San Francisco. Formerly Communications Theory Professor, Vienna, and Dean of The San Francisco Art Institute, he is currently Director of CAIIA in Wales.