Esther Kiener Knihy

The German artist, hacker and "cyberfeminist" Cornelia Sollfrank gained notoriety with her Net.Art Generator (www.obn.org/generator), which allows users to enter a few keystrokes and create a work of art. Sollfrank's real goal is to challenge the concept of authorship in an age where appropriation is as common as the click of a mouse, and this monograph provides a detailed discussion of one of the Net's pioneering artist/theorists.

Sasabuchi asks kids to design advertisements, then decides which images exhibit the least innocence, and instead project a perverse sexuality or desire to consume. She then tattoos guardian deities on the children's skin, as if they were in a gang, inscribing them with images of the battle between good and evil.