Cornelia Sollfrank

Cornelia Sollfrank is an artist and researcher living in Berlin. She investigates artistic infrastructures, new forms of (political) self-organisation, critical authorship, aesthetics of the commons, techno-feminist practice, and theory in and about digital cultures. As a pioneer of Internet Art, Cornelia built up a reputation with two central projects: the net.art generator, a web-based art-producing machine, and Female Extension, her famous hack of the first competition for Internet art. In her PhD Performing the Paradoxes of Intellectual Property (2012), she investigated the increasingly conflicting relationship between art and copyright. Her publications include The Beautiful Warriors. Technofeminist Practice in the 21st Century (2019), Aesthetics of the Commons (2021), while her latest contributions, co-authored with Winnie Soon, appeared in Fix My Code (2021) and The Computer as Seen at the End of the Human Age (2022). Currently, she works as a research associate at the Zürich University of the Arts on the projects Creating Commons and Performing the Ambiguity of Data.