Remedios Zafra. "Identity politics on the Internet" 

Identity politics on the Internet. A story about poetics and tensions between art, science, and technology in the subjective construction of the net

This conference will address some of the most significant stories, poetics, and tensions on subjective and identity construction produced since the 90s in creative processes and exchanges between art, science, and technology, particularly within the framework of visual studies, critical studies on the Internet, and feminism. Proposed is a thoughtful journey through the last three decades of the Internet, from the utopian readings of the 90s presenting a (false) liberation from stereotypes in a world mediated by screens, the reassessment of self sustained by real images and their transformation into products, the double-reading of privacy’s commercialisation promoted by social media and the feminist and political appropriation of oppressive intimacy´s publication shaping recent global movements, arriving at current uses and the challenges of generative artificial intelligence through the transformation of the limits of what is true or fantasy online.