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'''Mara Karayanni''' (Μάρα Καραγιάννη, 1979, [[Athens]]) studied photography and graphic arts at the Fine Arts School of Athens and hold a Masters in media design from the [[Networked Media Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam|Piet Zwart Institute]] in Rotterdam (2008). They create software and hardware tools for interactive projects and work as a freelance web designer and developer using free and open source software. Mara  collaborated with choreographer [[Thomas Körtvélyessy]] and composer [[Sjoerd Leijten]] to reflect on authorship and open/closed structures in dance and sound composition with the use of notations and code. They have also given lectures about the complexities of copyright licensing. Mara is a member of the [[Genderchangers]] and [[Media Liberation Front/Feminism]] collectives which have organized workshops and events about media and public space. They lived in [[Rotterdam]], [[Brussels]], [[Paris]] and [[Athens]]. (2022)
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'''Mara Karayanni''' (Μάρα Καραγιάννη, 1979, [[Athens]]) is a software developer, sysadmin and artist. Their work swings between computational and analogue media for publishing, zine and print-making, to python programming, and writing manuals for sysadmin tasks to more cultural and gender critique based texts about internet technologies and FOSS. They are part of the feminist servers [https://anarchaserver.org/ anarchaserver] and [https://systerserver.net/ systerserver], where they host mailing lists, code repository, wiki, streaming and archive interfaces for video based events and experimental artworks about cyber and techno-feminism. They studied graphic arts at the Fine Arts School of Athens and hold a Masters in media design from the [[Networked Media Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam|Piet Zwart Institute]] in Rotterdam (2008). They lived in [[Rotterdam]], [[Brussels]], [[Paris]] and [[Athens]]. (2022)
  
 
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* [http://mlff.org/ Propaganda Machine]
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* [https://psaroskalazines.gr/zines/ Artistic tech manuals]
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* [https://psaroskalazines.gr/zines/RTFM/ Read The Feminist Manual]
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* [https://cucu.gr/prints/ Silkscreens]
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* [http://mlff.org/ Media Liberation Front Feminism]
 
* [http://mara.multiplace.org/notations-under-provisions Notations Under Provisions]
 
* [http://mara.multiplace.org/notations-under-provisions Notations Under Provisions]
 
* [http://mara.multiplace.org/content-removed-walls-installed/ Content removed / Walls installed]
 
* [http://mara.multiplace.org/content-removed-walls-installed/ Content removed / Walls installed]
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* [http://computationalculture.net/software-as-dispute-resolution-system-design-effect-and-cultural-monetization/ "Software As Dispute Resolution System: Design, Effect and Cultural Monetization"], ''Computational Culture'' 7, Oct 2019.
 
* [http://computationalculture.net/software-as-dispute-resolution-system-design-effect-and-cultural-monetization/ "Software As Dispute Resolution System: Design, Effect and Cultural Monetization"], ''Computational Culture'' 7, Oct 2019.
 
* ''[[Media:Tunnel_Up_Tunnel_Down_A_Zine_About_Private_Virtual_Networks_2019.pdf|Tunnel Up / Tunnel Down: A Zine About Private Virtual Networks]]'', 2019.
 
* ''[[Media:Tunnel_Up_Tunnel_Down_A_Zine_About_Private_Virtual_Networks_2019.pdf|Tunnel Up / Tunnel Down: A Zine About Private Virtual Networks]]'', 2019.
** ''[[Media:Tunnel ouvert tunnel ferme un zine sur les reseaux prives virtuels 2020.pdf|Tunnel ouvert / tunnel fermé: un zine sur les réseaux privés virtuels]]'', 2020.
 
* [https://psaroskalazines.gr/ Psaroskala Zines]
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 10:23, 7 December 2022

Born Athens, Greece
Lives in Athens, Greece
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Mara Karayanni (Μάρα Καραγιάννη, 1979, Athens) is a software developer, sysadmin and artist. Their work swings between computational and analogue media for publishing, zine and print-making, to python programming, and writing manuals for sysadmin tasks to more cultural and gender critique based texts about internet technologies and FOSS. They are part of the feminist servers anarchaserver and systerserver, where they host mailing lists, code repository, wiki, streaming and archive interfaces for video based events and experimental artworks about cyber and techno-feminism. They studied graphic arts at the Fine Arts School of Athens and hold a Masters in media design from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (2008). They lived in Rotterdam, Brussels, Paris and Athens. (2022)

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