Loa and behold: voice ghosts in the new technoculture

This article suggests that the use of femininity and voice in digital art practice has a powerful potential to conjure provocative spaces in the new technoculture. Using a range of theoretical writers including Margaret Morse, Nell Tenhaaf, Simon Penny, Brenda Laurel and Sue-Ellen Case, the article traces contemporary thought on femininity, technology and voice. Gilson-Ellis uses her own choreographic / poetic practice as examples in these discussions. Through an adaptation of Sue-Ellen Case's proposal of the voudou vever and the loa, the article suggests that the voice in relation to writing and new technologies has a radical potential to open up alternative kinds of spaces in digital art practice.     

Robert B. Horn (illustrator), Jeff Yoshimi,Mark Deering,Russ McBride,David Fleischman (illustrator), Thierry DiDonna (illustrator), Jennifer Wedel (Editor), Mapping Great Debates. Can Computers Think?: 7 Maps and a Handbook.

Minds and Machines -