Marjorie Franklin
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Marjorie Franklin is a conceptual artist and a Professor of Conceptual Art at University of Minnesota
in the U.S.A
. She uses digital media in interactive installations. Previously, she has worked on CD-ROMs such as "Digital Blood", an interactive narrative comparing two mothers who create an artificial life construct and "She Loves It, She Loves It Not:Women and Technology" (a collaboration with Paul Tompkins, the late Christine Tamblyn
and others). In the interactive computer audio
and video
installations she creates her work focuses on the implications of the culture
of computer technology for humans living in industrialised countries.
Christine Tamblyn once mentioned in a review that Franklin had been influenced by the Cyborg theory
of Donna Haraway
.
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
in the U.S.A
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. She uses digital media in interactive installations. Previously, she has worked on CD-ROMs such as "Digital Blood", an interactive narrative comparing two mothers who create an artificial life construct and "She Loves It, She Loves It Not:Women and Technology" (a collaboration with Paul Tompkins, the late Christine Tamblyn
Christine Tamblyn
Christine Tamblyn was a media artist and feminist. She was born in Waukegan, Illinois, USA and attended a Catholic girls' school, Carmel High School for Girls, in Mundelein, IL. She never learned to ride a bike or drive a car. She was very shy as a child...
and others). In the interactive computer audio
Sound
Sound is a mechanical wave that is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.-Propagation of...
and video
Video
Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...
installations she creates her work focuses on the implications of the culture
Culture
Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...
of computer technology for humans living in industrialised countries.
Christine Tamblyn once mentioned in a review that Franklin had been influenced by the Cyborg theory
Cyborg theory
Cyborg theory was created by Donna Haraway in order to criticize traditional notions of feminism—particularly its strong emphasis on identity, rather than affinity. She uses the metaphor of a cyborg in order to construct a feminism that moves beyond dualisms and moves beyond the limitations of...
of Donna Haraway
Donna Haraway
Donna J. Haraway is currently a Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States...
.
External links
- Marjorie Franklin at UCLA
- Mortal Coil
- The Minnesota Daily: Prof plugs seductiveness of cyber art
- Mentioned in reviews
- Digital Blood
- Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto" European Graduate SchoolEuropean Graduate SchoolThe European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland is a privately funded graduate school founded by the non-profit European Foundation of Interdisciplinary Studies. Its German name is Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinäre Studien...
- "She Loves It, She Loves It Not: Women and Technology"