Beginnings of the Cyberfeminist House
Karen Keifer-Boyd
  
Reflections On the way home from a visit to Texas Tech University's Virtual Reality Theatre in the High Performance Computer Center, I began to image what I would do if I had access to this technology that could create "stereo" 3-D interactive spaces. I wanted what I did to make a difference in improving the situation of those that have been "othered." I wanted the space that I create to present an alternative to what is perceived as normal. Here, I felt was a chance to create a world that would question how we are inscribed in spaces while opening the door to radical revisions in which "laws" of physics and society had multiple possibilities not solely based on "man" as the norm.

Visual Culture 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
A Ed 502

 

Process Calendar:

5/19/2000: Parallel Project Grant Proposal

4/2001: "I'll build you a house"

5/2001: Concept Sharing with Architect Professor, Glenn Hill

8/2001: Developing a Course Plan

9/2001: First House Diagram had a "Master" Bedroom and Vagina Entry ( Design 1)

9/2001: Revised House with No Master, No Hierarchy & Entry Added into the Head and Exit from Vagina (scroll to Design 2)

10/17/2001: Collaboration Defined by Group

10/2001: Reconnect to Jane Olmstead in Women's Studies at U . of Kentucky about progress on Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman's house and documentation in Kentucky with Jane's students.

11/7/01: First Critiques of Students' Room Concepts