Mandate
The HTMlles international media arts festival exploring the various facets of digital technology and the World Wide Web as a medium for the creation and exhibition of artistic works by women. The festival occupies the singular position of being one of the only Canadian events entirely dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of independent Web and network based media artworks, its particularity also being emphasized by its cyber-feminist approach, concerns and engagements.
As such the festival investigates the particularities associated with and embedded within contemporary Web-based practices that must consider problematics such as dynamic programming, generative interfaces, computational linguistics, hypermedia and net ecology. Moreover, these general theoretical and esthetic concerns find themselves appropriated, critiqued and deconstructed by feminist agendas intermingled with cultural and socio-political realities. The festival represents a highly anticipated and privileged moment to expose and create a critical space for women's contribution to, contamination and construction of cyberspace itself.