Francesca da Rimini Francesca da Rimini has been making film, video, art and writing since 1981. Her practice is usually collaborative and widely exhibited. In 1991 she co-founded the artist collective VNS Matrix. Beginning with A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century in 1991, the group's projects included gallery installations, computer games, internet performances, a virtual theme park and cinema advertising. During the 1990s Francesca investigated email relationships, virtual communities and web architectures, reverse engineering her experiences into multiple immaterialities and personas. Her research crystallised in the novel FleshMeat, a bottomless pond of dead girls from Midori-Gaike in dollspace, a counter spectre to globalisation in Los Dias y Las Noches de los Muertos, the subatomic decoherence of Soft Accidents, and the streaming world of Identity_Runners In 1999, Francesca received an Australia Council New Media Fellowship to explore quantum physics, indigenous knowledge systems and creation/destruction cycles. Liberation Range, a catalogue of weaponised body adornments and seven beauties and the warroom, an internet data harvesting engine and poetry generator, are current manifestations of the research. http://autonomous.org/gashgirl http://sysx.org/gashgirl/