Umrežene: virtualne saboterke matrice reprezentacije
Netters: Virtual Saboteurs of Representation Matrix

Summary/Abstract: Cyberspace, as experimental polygon, has important potential for reconsideration of socially constructed identities and representations. Possibility of acting in this new, relatively unexplored public sphere seems especially appealing to women, who are trying to exceed not only space barriers, but also monolithic categories of woman, other or object. Using qualitative analysis of, so-called, virtual rooms or profiles for self-presentation, essay “Netters: Virtual Saboteurs of Representation Matrix” would examine if Netters supported or sabotaged traditional representation of femininity and passive female “to-be-looked-at-ness”, and to which extent. While cyberfeminists attempt to contravene controlling and configuring male gaze using methods of simulation, irony and parody in an arena of visual representation, where politics and esthetics are inevitable interconnected, “Suicide Girls”, as controversial virtual rebels, playfully intervene in traditional representation matrix with images of bodily monstrosity and female desire. Trying to transform predominantly male cyberspace into a sphere of free (re)defining, Netters rely on utopian vision of virtual as potentially actual.

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