Robert Atkins The material already posted on this discussion-site raises so many questions. Thus I want to present my initial responses as the proverbial Twenty Questions. 1) If cyber/techno art is so predominantly male, why has it been completely marginalized in mainstream art historical discourse? 2) Why are the circle of artists involved with Zero or MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies absent from contemporary art overviews? (Even EAT with its glamorous connection to Rauschenberg merits only a footnote.) 3) How can such a conversation as the Gender & Identity forum be of use to other mixed-gender populations-racial, economic, even the young or unknown etc.-that are also marginalized in terms of the technological mainstream? 4) Are they represented among the panelists? And have they been solicited as participants? 5) Does such representation/targeting determine the outcome of the conversation? 6) Why is it that our identity tends to focus on one aspect of our make-up, rather than the many components that make up our being? 7) Although I identify strongly with both, why does my queerness take precedence (at least in my work) over my Judaism? And my maleness? 8) Is this identification malleable? Might this only be true of a particular phase of life? 9) Are we always stuck in an identity-defined box? Is an artist's signature style an identity? 10) Is it important to reinvigorate a more general identity formation such as that of the intellectual? Or has the utility of such a concept been appropriated by academia? 11) Or obliterated by the notion of the "expert?" Or should I say the notion of the "celebrity" or the "star system?" 12) Hasn't much of the compelling work of Western Civilization been produced by amateurs? (Ada Byron comes immediately to mind, but perhaps this only makes her a tragic case of underachievement.) 13) And what about collaboration? And coalitions? 2 15) What is the relationship of Cyber-Feminism to Feminism? 16) How can we think more fully and deeply if we aren't multi-tracking and multi-disciplinarian? 17) Without reiterating or romanticizing the studio/lab analogy, what is the relationship of art and science as forms of knowledge? Likewise for art and technology. 18) What is the nature of particular cultures and societies' relationship with technology? (I am an American.) 19) Hasn't the feminist view of art history-with its acute and revealing insights into the distribution of power-been nearly institutionalized in American academia? (I am an art historian by training.) Or are their other feminisms to turn to, which have not been absorbed in such a way? 20) Will queer view(s) re theory and activism become similarly institutionalized? [The Panel] [The Panelists] [Keynote Statements] [Icebreaker] [Open Forum] [About this Panel]