Francesca da Rimini has been working in the field of new media since 1984 as an arts manager, curator, corporate geisha girl, cyberfeminist, puppet mistress and ghost.
Squandered hours investigating the artistic and erotic potential of negotiated email relationships, online virtual communities and Web-based narrative architectures have all been reverse engineered into multiple immaterialities.
fleshmeat, her novel about love, lust and death on the net, will be published by SHAKE. dollspace drifts through haunted ponds, detestable pleasures and military bunkers testing the theses that ‘all women are ghosts and should rightly be feared’, ‘all history is pornography’ and ‘laws are made by men who fuck their daughters’. Los Dias y Las Noches de los Muertos uses the soft architecture and screenal bodies of the net to create a ghost work of counter-memories, opening thresholds of impossibilities outside of pan-capitalism.
Recently, GashGirl has morphed into Liquid Nation, a sibyl from future’s memory, joining Identity_Runners, Ephemera and Discordia, together creating a streaming world which straddles ‘the real’ (historic-documentary-theoretical) and ‘the artificial’ (fictional-poetic-metaphorical).
In 1999, Francesca was the recipient of a 2 year Fellowship awarded by the New Media Fund of the Australia Council. Her current project, Soft Accidents, represents a shift in thematic concerns, exploring the nexus between quantum physics and indigenous knowledge systems. This has drawn her inevitably into the current realities surrounding Aboriginal land rights, activist movements and Big Daddy Mainframe’s extensive tentacles into the nuclear, military and mining industries.
Her online projects squat the screens at System-X.
7 February 2001
