Women and digital creation
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Associations and collectives defend female creators in order to give more visibility to their creations, while works of art highlight female profiles to deconstruct the roles that society attributes to them.
Make way for women !
Several web series and virtual reality works highlight women, in order to question their role and their place in our societies.
Thinking about intersectionality
The intersectional approach considers the way in which different forms of discrimination overlap and reinforce each other. It is at the heart of several works of digital creation, which speak about women, and their identities.
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Associations, collectives and independent curators are celebrating female creators in order to give more visibility to their work.
Afrogameuses is an association that promotes Afrodescendant women in the video game industry (gamers, professionals, streamers, etc.). It raises awareness of diversity in the video game industry to redress the lack of representation of black women in video games, on the e-sports scene and on streaming channels.
Women in Games is an association of professionals working to promote gender equality in the video game industry in France.
Les Internettes is an association that promotes and supports female video creators on the web. The network provides access to a search engine listing over 2200 female video creators. An annual prize is also awarded to female creators with less than 10,000 subscribers, with the aim of encouraging creation by women on the web.
Animated by Jean Zeid, the podcast "50 video game professions by 50 women podcas" by the Syndicat National du Jeu Vidéo, was designed to make clear the trades and skills required to work in the gaming industry are also for women.
The artists Juliette Bibasse and Valentina Peri founded SALOON Paris: an international network of women from the art world with branches in Berlin, Barcelona, Prague, Tel Aviv, Brussels, Vienna, Montreal and Paris.
Isabelle Arvers is a French artist and curator who has been exploring the fields of digital art and video games for over 20 years. In 2019, she embarked on a world tour of art and games in non-Western countries to promote gender, sexuality and racial diversity, focusing on queer, feminist and decolonial practices.