Women in AI and New Media: Living with two brains symposium

From February 15 to 16, 2025, I was invited to participate in the symposium “ Women in AI and New Media Art: Living with two brains” at Tokyo Node, organized by AWARE (Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions) in collaboration with the Mori Art Museum and in conjunction with the exhibition Machine Love: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art.

I participated in the panel Women Artists in the Rise of New Media in the 1960s and 1970s with Daria Mille, curator at ZKM   Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, and Soojung YI, curator at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Korea .

Moderated by Camille Morineau, Director and Co-Founder of AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions and Nina Volz, Head of International Development of AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions

I presented the talk “Latin American Women Artists: Catalysts of New Media Art in the 1970s” as part of the symposium on my ongoing research on Latin American women media artists working in the 1970s and their roles in facilitating access and fostering experiments with emergent technologies, focusing on the work of Marta Minujín, Sandra Llano Mejía, Ana Bella Geiger, Sonia Andrade, Leticia Parente and especially in the work of Pola Weiss and her exchanges with Shigeko Kubota. This work has appeared in different publications, including Women Made Visible: Feminist Art and Media in Post-1968 Mexico City (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), Encounters in Video Art in Latin America (edited by Elena Shtromberg and Glenn Phillips, Getty Publications 2023, Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas (edited by Alessandra Santos and Kim Beauchesne, Palgrave, 2017) and Imagining the Cyborg in Náhuatl: The Videos of Pola Weiss (Platform Journal of Media and Communication, 2015) among other publications.