THE WOMAN FACTORY is an interactive digital chapbook about artificial intelligence, gender, and our current bioindustrial mode of production. Written from the perspective of a fembot in a far flung, THE WOMAN FACTORY explores how such a category presents complicated indwellings of pleasure and pain, examining the ways in which identities and modalities of being (such as queerness and transness) can be tied to globe-spanning processes of mass harm and destruction. In this space, it asks these essential questions: How can we rework our material conditions upon which we rely? And how must we respond when we are still yet engulfed by those conditions? The interactive elements of this chapbook implicate you directly in this process of complicity / self-distinguishing, weaponizing the line between author and reader.
Humans
- Ava Hofmann (author)
- Elæ Moss (artist)
Page count
46Keywords
Poetry, Visual Poetry, Typography, Text, Font, Chapbook, Bloom, Mutation, Entropy, Catalyst, Brine, Digital, Interactive, Interaction, Collab, Technology, AI, Robotics, Industry, Women, Women's Studies, Gender, Queer, LBGT, LGBTQ, LGBTQ+, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA+, Capitalism, Anti-Capitalism, BodyPublication date
2020Language(s)
EnglishPublication media type
Digital DocumentChapbook
Publication series
Digital Chapbook SeriesThe Woman Factory
About the Contributor(s)
Originally from Oxford, Ohio, Ava Hofmann is a trans writer currently living and working in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has poems published in or forthcoming from Black Warrior Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Fence, Anomaly, Best American Experimental Writing 2020, The Fanzine, Datableed, Peachmag, and Always Crashing. Her work deals with transness/queerness, Marxism, and the physicality of language.
Follow Ava Hofmann on Instagram and Twitter @st_somatic.
Elæ Moss is a multimodal artist-researcher, curator, designer, and educator. Seeking Speculative Solidarities, they employ analog and digital media to investigate human, institutional and ecological systems and to iterate open source strategies for ecological and social change. Recent projects have shown at La Mama Galleria, EFA Project Space, STWST/Ars Electronica, Usdan Gallery, Judson Church, the Segal Center, SOHO20, Dixon Place, and the Exponential Festival, among others. Select publications include Big Echo, Tagvverk, Vestiges, Matters of Feminist Practice, The Transgender Narratives Anthology, Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, The Brooklyn Poets Anthology, and Resist Much, Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance. Books include Ground, Blood Altas, Overview Effect, Sweet and Low: Indefinite Singular, Bodies of Work, and The Precarity Bodyhacking Work-Book and Guide. Moss is a Professor at Pratt Institute, and the developer / founder of the Operating System + Liminal Lab. More at: https://onlywhatican.net and https://theoperatingsystem.org.
