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[In the spirit of Carol's writing below, here's a political web piece by my friend Prema Murthy that is pretty simple but effective. I got this through the Net Art mailing list maintained by rhizome.org]
Using the format of search engine results, Prema Murthy's 'Mythic Hybrid' presents contextual information on a group of women in India, micro-electronics factory workers who reported having collective hallucinations. These women are the artist's focusing device as she remodels information on industrial conditions, spiritual phenomena and womens' status. The associations Murthy brings together are varied, but make conceptual sense not just in light of the fascinating story about the hallucinating workers, but also in tandem with some of the radical notions about women and the real in Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto -- a book that informed this project. -- Rachel Greene
turbulence.org/Works/mythichybrid/index.html
Posted by Brian Stefans at January 21, 2003 03:36 PM