Marie-Luise Angerer:
"The net as a new space for women is still divided genderspecificly in a traditional sense and bears only as a utopian trace a (New) Technology of Gender."

 
Gabriele Gerbasits
Wenn man davon ausgeht, daß Technologien, die von in bestimmten Gesellschaftsstrukturen lebenden Menschen entwickelt werden, diese Gesellschaftsstrukturen auch widerspiegeln, dann ist das ein Hinweis darauf, warum auch das Internet ein männerdominiertes System ist. Da aber die Vorgänge im Internet nicht oder nur beschränkt von den jeweiligen Machtinhabern kontrolliert werden können, läßt es sich als Instrumentarium für Befreiungskämpfe auf verschiedenen Ebenen einsetzen. Für uns kann dies bedeuten, daß neue Strategien zur "political conspiracy" entwickelt werden können und daß sich für feministische Subkulturen zusätzliche Räume eröffnen.
Die Verwirklichung einer Utopie der Beseitigung der Geschlechterhierachie durch globale Strukturen bedarf ihrer Aktivistinnen.  

Kathy Rae Huffman:
"Internet is a free territory that women should join together to protect from commercial control, political conspiracy, and religious and moral censorship. It is a space where women can roam about without fear, and where they can find clear answers to difficult problems, associative links for complex comparison, and choices they may find difficult to act out in real life."  

Margarete Jahrmann:
I see f-e-mail practices as a body of text which is visualized in the net as structures of electronic communication with art coded communication programs contained within it....
My wish
goes for a free system configuration in the social subsystem of Net Art, which will function as a testing ground for general social communication, and that in the handling of Net tools, a free flow of ideas will be granted. original (german) text

Monika Wunderer:
In electronic communication between artists, it is an important topic with whom you are communicating, in which live surroundings and which gender the person "on the other end of the line" is. These premises are made clear quite often in an explicit way, in order to make the conversation more personal.
As I do not prevent to be somebody else in computer-mediated communication, my experiences in electronic space are similar to the one I have in face2face communication. Trough the Internet I found people who are granting me respect and support for my work. I only noticed in the electronic space, what I did not notice before, that in most of the cases men tend to show admiration for my person and my work, while women show interest in me and what I am doing.

The experiences in online communication, that I as a women made in the theater scene of the Internet, were mainly positive. This was maybe also caused by the fact that a basic development of this scene was made by a woman. Dr. Juli Burk, Associate Professor of Theatre in the University of Hawaii Department of Theatre and Dance has created the ATHEMOO in June 1995 . (telnet://moo.hawaii.edu:9999) This live online space is essential for the synchronic communication of theater workers and theater theoreticians, and is more and more used as a space to perform theater experiments. Juli Burk was influenced and supported by two other women, Cynthia Haynes (creator of LinguaMOO) and Amy Bruckman who established one of the first MOOs, the MediaMOO.

The theatrical part of the Internet is a place that is still to explore and to create. I saw men and women walking equally along this new track with everybody bringing in his or her special power. But not only that this form of creating a space is new but also the knowledge of real space can be brought in to prevent known faults in social life. In the theater scene of the Internet I can see men and women working together, with a great sense for what the others can give in special cases. I always felt understood as a person and was never forced to be confronted with a problem of being a woman. german text

  Eva Wohlgemuth:
"For me the net is the FIR ST MEDIUM where women were envolved -in use and critique- quite from the beginning.
All other "relevant cultural technics" were established and defined by men and women would join in later and compete in a discourse already set up.
Therefore I think its extremely necessary to build up female-net communities - to reinforce and encourage the "female/different" points of view..
...and get things going"

Heidi Grundmann
director and founder of ORFKunstradio ten years ago, guided it to become one of the most active internet radio projects today. As host of the event she will introduce the participants, moderate the discussion and comment the event.

Besides the participants mentioned on top the following women will be in the ORF studio, join in the Real Audio Discussion and their positions can be adressed via IRC-chat.

Christina Goestl (t0, Public Netbase Vienna)
Andrea Sodomka (media artist)

prof. richard kriesche, graz
to differentiate the access and appearance is the most important issue again.
if women don't find out other 'rules' -content, esthetics, etc.- than the given structure already given by men, i believe the same will happen as in the media revolution since.
women will be part of the 'electronic-excuse-environment';
less than a side aspect.
to give you one striking example:
last week the 'hyperwave' gsmbh., the result of an excellent research done at the tu-graz in the internet business has been inaugurated by chancellor klima in graz.
to adress the crowd he had to say: "sehr geehrte dame, sehr geehrte herren"  

dollyoko
transforming from the very gendered gashgirl to a more amorphous net presence, the ghost called 'doll yoko', has been interesting ... finding i like the freedom of ghostliness ..easier to slip through the predictable binary reductionist screen/s to a space which once again feels uncolonised by histories

sometimes the net is the only space where i don't feel crazy ..maybe because it is the only safe space to be completely excessive

sysx.apana.org.au/~gashgirl/doll/dollyoko.html