VNS Matrix was an artist collective founded in Adelaide, Australia, in 1991, by Josephine Starrs, Julianne Pierce, Francesca da Rimini and Virginia Barratt. Their work included installations, events, and posters distributed through the Internet, magazines, and billboards. Taking their point of departure in a sexualised and socially provocative relationship between women and technology the works subversively questioned discourses of domination and control in the expanding cyber space.[1] They are credited as being amongst the first artists to use the term cyberfeminism to describe their practice; according to artist Anna Couey they outright coined the term along with Sadie Plant[2] .Their first use of the term cyberfeminist was in 1991.[3]
- ^ "VNS Matrix - transmediale". www.transmediale.de. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
- ^ Couey, Anna (2003). "Restructuring Power: Telecommunications Works Produced by Women". In Malloy, Judy (ed.). Women, art, and technology. Leonardo. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-13424-8.
- ^ Hurst, Cameron (2 January 2023). "VNS Matrix-Pilled: Three Propositions for Revisiting 1990s Cyberfeminist Art Now". Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art. 23 (1): 43–60. doi:10.1080/14434318.2023.2214588. ISSN 1443-4318.