Faith Wilding

Faith Wilding emigrated to the United States in 1961 from Paraguay. She received her MFA at CalArts where she was a founding member of the Feminist Art Program. Wilding is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work addresses aspects of the somatic, psychic, and sociopolitical history of the body. Recent publications, lectures, exhibitions and performances focus on issues of cyberfeminist (women and technology) theory and practice, with particular emphasis on biotechnology. Wilding has exhibited and lectured widely in the USA and Europe. Her audio work has been commissioned and broadcast by RIAS Berlin; WDR Cologne; and National Public Radio, USA. Wilding has published in MEANING, Heresies, Ms. Magazine, The Power of Feminist Art, and other books and magazines. She is the recipient of two individual media grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently, Wilding is a faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the MFA in Visual Art Program at Vermont College of the Union Institute and University. (2023)

Publications

• Faith Wilding, Our Own Hands, Double X, 1977.

• Faith Wilding, "Where is the Feminism in Cyberfeminism?", nparadoxa 2: "Women and New Media", London, Jul 1998, pp 6-13, HTML, HTML. [1]
  • "Gdje je feminizam u cyberfeminizmu", in Cyberfeminizam, ed. Igor Marković, Zagreb: Centar za ženske studije, 1999. (Croatian)
  • "¿Dónde está el feminismo en el ciberfeminismo?", trans. Noemí Novell, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat 10: "Cuerpos, géneros, tecnologías", ed. Meri Torras, Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, 2004, pp 141-145. (Spanish)

• Faith Wilding, Critical Art Ensemble, "Notes on the Political Condition of Cyberfeminism", Art Journal 57:2, Summer 1998, pp 46-59; repr. in subsol 2, 2001.
  • "Apuntes sobre la condición política del ciberfeminismo", in Ciberfeminismo. De VNS Matrix a Laboria Cuboniks, eds. Remedios Zafra and Teresa López-Pellisa, Madrid: Holobionte, 2019. [2] (Spanish)

• co-editor, ReadMe! ASCII Culture & The Revenge of Knowledge. Filtered by Nettime, New York: Autonomedia, Feb 1999, 556 pp. Nettime publication. [3]

• subRosa, "A Modest Proposal for the Biotech Century", in The Biotech Sex and Gender Workbook, 2000; new version as "Sex and Gender Ed for the Biotech Century", in Domain Errors: Cyberfeminist Practices!, eds. Maria Fernandez, Faith Wilding, and Michelle M. Wright, New York: Autonomedia, 2002, pp 197-202.
  • "Ciencia, arte y género en el siglo biotecnológico", in Ciberfeminismo. De VNS Matrix a Laboria Cuboniks, eds. Remedios Zafra and Teresa López-Pellisa, Madrid: Holobionte, 2019. [4] (Spanish)

• Brett Stalbaum, "Substantial Disturbance: An Interview with Faith Wilding", Switch 7, San Jose, CA: San Jose State University, 2001. HTML.

• subRosa (Faith Wilding), "Gestohlene Rhetorik: die Aneignung der Wahl durch die ART Industrien", Kunstforum International 158: "Der erfundene Zwilling. Transgene Kunst II", eds. Birgit Richard and Sven Thuen, Jan-Mar 2002. [5] (German)
  • "Stolen Rhetoric: the Appropriation of Choice by ART (Assisted Reproductive Technologies) Industries", in Domain Errors: Cyberfeminist Practices!, eds. Maria Fernandez, Faith Wilding, and Michelle M. Wright, New York: Autonomedia, 2002, pp 135-148, HTML, HTML; repr. in Sarai Reader 3: Shaping Technologies, Delhi: Sarai Programme, and Amsterdam: Waag, 2003.
  • "Retórica robada: La apropiación del “derecho a decidir” en la industria de reproducción asistida", in Ciberfeminismo. De VNS Matrix a Laboria Cuboniks, eds. Remedios Zafra and Teresa López-Pellisa, Madrid: Holobionte, 2019. [6] (Spanish)

• Maria Fernandez, Faith Wilding, Michelle M. Wright (eds.), Domain Errors: Cyberfeminist Practices!, New York: Autonomedia, 2002. Review: Berry (Mute).

• Irina Aristarkhova, Maria Fernandez, Coco Fusco, Faith Wilding, "What is Undercurrents?", 2002.

See also

• SubRosa, a cyberfeminist art collective
• Old Boys Network
• Undercurrents

Links

• Website