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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
female:pressure
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"female:pressure" is an international database for female djs, producers and visual artists, related to the electronic music world, that can be searched by various criteria. It is first and foremost a tool to ensure the existence of women in this apparently entirly male dominated field and to improve communication. The database / website is considered to be a publicly accessible source of information. Meanwhile "female:pressure" can be proud of approximately 1030 members from 52 countries, most of them can be contacted by e-mail and are hyperlinked to their own webpages and to the record labels they release on where applicable. Additional information comprises location, profession and musical style.
"Why are there so few female activists in the electronic music scene?"—each one of the listed artists has heard this question a hundred times. However, experience demonstrates that women are not less active. Their activities are just less recognized and also easily forgotten.
"female:pressure" emphasizes the practicality and the necessity of networking and communicating especially in this area and serves as a representational platform to the world, an established standard to be consulted and used as a reference. The database can be searched by regions, countries, styles, professions and names. This makes it easy for people to obtain information about well known artists as well as up-and-coming women who work in the fields of electronic music around the globe.
All djs, producers, singers, mcs, videoartists, graphicdesigners, photographers and other visual artists can log into the site and individually update their own profiles, so the information available remains relevant and can be used effectively.
Links: http://www.femalepressure.net/
"Why are there so few female activists in the electronic music scene?"—each one of the listed artists has heard this question a hundred times. However, experience demonstrates that women are not less active. Their activities are just less recognized and also easily forgotten.
"female:pressure" emphasizes the practicality and the necessity of networking and communicating especially in this area and serves as a representational platform to the world, an established standard to be consulted and used as a reference. The database can be searched by regions, countries, styles, professions and names. This makes it easy for people to obtain information about well known artists as well as up-and-coming women who work in the fields of electronic music around the globe.
All djs, producers, singers, mcs, videoartists, graphicdesigners, photographers and other visual artists can log into the site and individually update their own profiles, so the information available remains relevant and can be used effectively.
Links: http://www.femalepressure.net/
female:pressure has been designed and founded by Vienna based Electric Indigo in 1998 as a technological answer to the recurring complaints of there hardly being any female producers or djs. The programming and continuous advancement of the female:pressure database has been carried out by Viennese open source expert Andrea Mayr.