Edinburgh Girl Geeks Dinner

Tuesday 29 September, 6.30 for 7pm
Screen Academy, Edinburgh Napier University, 2a Merchiston Avenue, Edinburgh EH10 4NU
Cost - £10 including buffet and soft drinks (£5 cash back for undergraduates – sponsored by Interconnect)

Girl Geeks Dinners is back in Edinburgh for an Autumn get together! Come and join us. We hope to gather the region's brightest female computer scientists, technologists, entrepreneurs and techies for good food and good company. The evening will be chilled, friendly and informal. We hope to attract students, as well as professionals across the Lothians.

We have a great speaker, Cornelia Sollfrank, a digital media artist, her details are below.

Three professional women (from Adobe Systems, IBM and Harvey Nash) will give us an update on the current and future job scene in the sector.

And there will be plenty of time to mingle and chat throughout the evening.

Tickets are limited (50 available), so please book soon to avoid disappointment. Tickets available online NOW at: https://www.epay.ed.ac.uk/events/eventdetails.asp?eventid=173



This event is sponsored by the British Computer Society, Interconnect and the IET



Programme
6.30-7 Welcome
7.00 Introduction, Welcome, Networking
7.30 Buffet
8.0 Speaker - Cornelia Sollfrank Digital Media Artist
8.30 Desserts
9.0 Spotlight on JOBS from Adobe Systems, Harvey Nash, IBM

9.20 Prize draw (Adobe Premiere Software!) and informal networking
10 Finish

Our Speaker: Cornelia Sollfrank

German digital media artist Cornelia Sollfrank explores the changing role of the artist in the Information Age, new forms of dissemination of art, the gender-specific handling of technology, and communication and networking as art.

She initiated the Cyberfemininist alliance known as "Old Boys Network" www.obn.org . Her project Female Extension (1997) was a hack of the first net.art competition initiated by a museum, in which she flooded the museum's network with submissions by 300 virtual female net artists.

Her net.art generator www.obn.org/generator automatically produces art on demand. She edited the First Cyberfeminist International (1988) and Next Cyberfeminist International (1999).

Sollfrank is currently producing work on the subject of female hackers.



More about Cornelia and her work here:

www.wizards-of-os.org/archiv/sprecher/s_t/cornelia_sollfrank

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