Francesca da Rimini

Francesca da Rimini was born in London and bred in Adelaide, Australia. She has been a member of the cyberfeminist art collective VNS Matrix (1991-1997), and identity_runners (1998-), and collaborated with Mongrel, Tiny K, and Bump Projects amongst others. I-Roller: the screen of changes is her most recent artwork, an interactive non-linear narrative triggered by the actions of players in a live roller derby game, made for Linda Dement's Bloodbath project.

Entering the drift zone of academia in 2005, Francesca undertook research-based Masters and Doctoral Degrees at the University of Technology, Sydney. Her PhD thesis, 'Socialised Technologies, Cultural Activism, and the Production of Agency,'
tracked 3 contrasting activist projects within a post-Autonomist critique of informational capitalism. Currently she is part of a university team researching the relations between info-capitalism and the production of disorder, following her
specific interest in the affective dimension and politics of peer-to-peer file-sharing.

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