The cyberformance Machine Divas will be presented on July 23, 8:00 pm European time (find your local time here). It will be presented to a proximal audience at Kunstraum Niederosterreich in Vienna, and for the online audience the link to the stage will be on the UpStage web site, just before the performance. The performance will be followed by a discussion that will be streamed via Ustream.

• what does a machine diva look like?
• does she have a soul?
• are her friends electric?
• is she just after our robots?
• does she control this machine?
• would she make a good girlfriend?
• does she have a tail?/

Please send us your responses …

This is the result of a week-long workshop as part of the IMA Salon, July 16-23 in Vienna. The workshop, led by Helen Varley Jamieson, is exploring the theme of Machine Divas through the medium of cyberformance - live online performance.

Machine Divas is an ongoing research and networking project initiated in 2007 by Eva Ursprung and Andrea Sodomka, to investigate women artists using technology for their work in nowadays expanded “theater space”.