Exposing the inner workings : an interview with Nancy Mauro-Flude

Abstract

For this issue of .dpi, I conducted an interview with Australian-based artist and researcher Nancy Mauro-Flude regarding her performance piece, Error_in_Time, presented at The HTMlles 10 Festival: RISKY BUSINESS / AFFAIRES À RISQUES in Montreal, Quebec. In my research, I am interested in the ways technology and movements are used in performance events, the type of technology, and what is at stake with the use of technology on the gendered body. This interview focuses not only on Mauro-Flude’s methodological process in the creation of code and movement for her performance work, but also addresses the broader issues of women in hacking and new media art community spaces. Through an inquiry into Error_in_Time, I focus on her interdisciplinary practice, exposing the inner mechanisms of technology with movement to the broader problematic of women’s position in the art and technology community.