Nancy Mauro-Flude

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N.Mauro-Flude at Ghetto Bienalle Haiti. Photo: Marcia Flude CC-by-ShareAlike3.0
Lives in Hobart lutruwita Tasmania
Website Linktree, Mastodon

Nancy Mauro-Flude is an artist, feminist theorist and digital caretaker. Her research is driven by the demystification of technology and the ‘mystification’ that lies in and through the performance of the machinic assemblage. The talismanic logic of island cultures and medium experimentation are foundations for her work.

Under various aliases and in varigated cooperations, Nancy actively works to fuse radical forms of self-determination by introducing experimental pedagogy to relatively conservative and weakly networked regions. Her work is described as “…focusing on the effects of social, cultural, and intellectual diversity (among other factors)…nurturing nuanced concepts of identity within the electronic space, as is the case of Sister0 a virtual avatar who, in reality, is a facilitator and its actions are those of a medium, whether on a computer in a hacklab in Romania, a voodoo ceremony in Haiti or in a classroom in Tasmania (see suburb action performance piece Error_in_Time() by Nancy Mauro-Flude, from 2012)” Utopias of Technological Art: The State of the Question Fifty Years On Artnodes 2013.


"...Gray magics, hijackings, driftings and seizures of power the sensitive and subversive subterfuges by which she urges, twists and explores the aesthetic politic of the open source spirit" (Anne Goldenberg, 2013) ".dpi feminist journal of art and digital culture."

Alumni of Piet Zwart Institute, co founder of Moddr part of the WORM venue in Rotterdam. International Program Committee & Art Jury for ISEA

She develops, designs and delivers "Computing Art, Technology, and Materiality research integrated teaching"

Nancy is elected member of "Digital Ethnography Research Centre" and the "Post Carbon Research Centre".

Founder of Critical Media Coven and long-term member of the Genderchangers home brewed since 1998, working to actively change the ‘gender’ of technology. Involves projects such as systerserver, Eclectic Tech Carnival, School for AC⌁DC+, Tactical Magick Faerie Circuits, Bag Lady 2.0 that specialise in "Custom Built Interfaces/Electronic Performance Tools and highly entertaining, interactive performance" as quoted by Creative Australia.

"Bag Lady 2.0" (2007) Nancy Mauro-Flude designed a portable webserver in a bag, that is able to record, store and broadcast information in real time. Images taken with a camera attached to the bag, a microphone records sounds, a GPS device can apply geographical data to identify the geographical location of the recorded sites. The functions of the bag can be controlled through a small keyboard attached to the bag, images audio and text that are then transmitted through open WLANs to a server. The bag is not only an item for collecting, but also for broadcasting gathered information in realtime.

Selected Projects[edit]

Selected Curatorial work[edit]

  • Economythologies EMLX 2020 - ongoing Critical thinking, making and trading for the New World Disorder, an emphasis on voices from the Asia-Pacific region, participants to collectively imagine new aesthetic ways of (re-)configuring art and economy
  • encoding_experience/10_October_2008_18:00_EST.* Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmania 2008.
  • TacticalMagick.net Networked Art Forms: Tactical Magick Faerie Circuits, 2013.
  • Microbites.me Microbites of Innovation. Art Track ACM Creativity and Cognition, 2017.
  • Internet Lore Asia Writing for the Internet: Internet lore in Asia. Asia Research Institute, 2018.
  • Vvitchvvave Post Digital Aesthetics Symposium and Exhibition, Siteworks, 2019.
  • Asemic Runway 2022.

Selected publications[edit]

  • Mauro-Flude, Nancy (2019), "Performing The Internet", Post Digital Folklore, Digital Humanities and Scholarly Research Trends in the Asia-Pacific, Pen:IGI-Global.
  • Mauro-Flude, Nancy (2016) "Divine Trash Strata", Unlikely: Journal for Creative Arts Issue 2, University of Melbourne.
  • Mauro-Flude, N (2015), 'Linux for Artists: Embodiment & Nix Modus Operandi', in A Mansoux & M de Valk (eds.), FLOSS+Art, GOTO10, Poitiers, France. MUTE, London, pp. 206-223.

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