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Virginia Barratt (born 1959) [1] is an Australian researcher, artist, writer and performer. She is currently[ when? ] writing a PhD at Western Sydney University in the Writing and Society Centre. Barratt's doctoral research focuses on panic, affect and deterritorialization, explored through performance, experimental poetics and vocalities. [2]

Born in the United Kingdom, from 1989 until 1991, Barratt worked as director of Australian Network for Art & Technology [3] securing computers and software for artists at leading institutions and fostering discourse between scholars of art and technology. Barratt has said, "This kind of access was unprecedented, since computers were not personal and certainly not ubiquitous." [4]

In 1990, Virginia Barratt attended the Second International Symposium on Electronic Art in Groningen, Netherlands along with other ANAT ambassadors. [5]

Barratt was co-director of John Mills National with Adam Boyd. She is a founding member of the Queensland Artworkers Alliance, [6] and a researcher for Sonic Research Initiative at York University. [7]

She is a founding member of VNS Matrix, a collective of cyberfeminists collaborating from 1991 until about 1997. [8] Barratt has said: "The VNS Matrix emerged from the cyberswamp during a southern Australian summer circa 1991, on a mission to hijack the toys from technocowboys and remap cyberculture with a feminist bent." [4] VNS Matrix's multimedia project, [8] A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century, became the first installment of Rhizome's online exhibition Net Art Anthology [9] on 27 October 2016.[ citation needed ]

In the late 1980s, she began interacting with text-based virtual spaces, particularly on LambdaMOO utilizing avatars [6]

She has contributed to, among others, Banquet Press, Overland, [10] TEXT - a biannual electronic refereed journal, [11] Writing from Below, [12] Spheres Journal for Digital Cultures with Francesca da Rimini (aka doll yoko), [7] Cordite, [13] Plinth Journal [14] , Artlink Journal [15] , AXON Journal in collaboration with Quinn Eades, and Offshoot: Contemporary Lifewriting Methodologies and Practice in Australasia. Her most recent works have been performed in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Byron Bay, Sydney, Helsingør, San Francisco, Toronto, London, Performing Arts Forum (PAF) and the Sorbonne in France, Humboldt University and Kunsthaus KuLe in Berlin. [16] Barratt privileges co-creation as a productive and resistant modality.[ citation needed ] She collaborates in an ongoing capacity with Francesca da Rimini as In Her Interior.[ citation needed ]

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  4. 1 2 Evans, Claire (11 December 2014). "An Oral History of the First Cyberfeminists". Motherboard. Vice. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
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  6. 1 2 Bolton, Olivia; Barratt, Virginia (27 June 2015). "Virginia Barratt b. 1959". Design & Art Australia Online. Design & Art Australia. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
  7. 1 2 Barratt, Virginia (2015). "Hexing the Alien". Spheres Journal for Digital Cultures. Virginia Barratt. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  8. 1 2 "A CYBERFEMINIST MANIFESTO FOR THE 21ST CENTURY". anthology.rhizome.org. Rhizome. 27 October 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
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  11. ↑ "TEXT Special Issue No 17 Mud map: Australian women's experimental writing". TEXT. Australasian Association of Writing Programs. April 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  12. ↑ Barratt, Virginia (14 August 2015). "skiptoend". Writing from Below. 2 (2). ISSN   2202-2546.
  13. ↑ "Virginia Barratt". Cordite Poetry Review. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  14. ↑ Ecclesia, Unwin-Dunraven Literary. PLINTH.
  15. ↑ Barratt, Virginia (January 2017). "Performing panic: How does your data glow". Artlink Magazine.
  16. ↑ "virginia barratt". virginia barratt. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
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