Re: [-empyre-] gender3D ..was 3D in Gallery Space - books

[Lloyd Sharp <lsharp@bigpond.net.au>]

> <Melinda said>
> i know that there is a "heavy under-representation of women" who make 3d web
> art, as opposed to women who make other sorts of netart or art in general..
> as well 80% of the guests in this forum are male ,  around the same figures
> for women in the lab 3d show.. and form my observation the number is even
> lower for women  who participate on any 3d related mailing list. yet i see
> quiet a few who are working in the higher tech end of 3d , (but with almost
> zero accessability compared to networked art..) like in CAVES.. wonder why
> that is..?  maybe cause its becsue thay been round longer and thre are more
> women in academic networks with acces to them....?

There are a lot of woman who do some very exciting digital 3D 
representational work in the areas of industrial design and 
architecture.
And there are a considerable number of woman design students who go 
through design schools using CAD/CAM and coming out the other end 
with substantial 3D skills.
I have seen work by and worked with some profoundly skilled and 
thoughtful women in the digital 3D design area.

I think it may have something more to do with the issues of required 
unrelenting self-promotion and the fairly competitive yet 
unsatisfying work environments and recompense for the work that may 
dissuade many woman [and men] from participating in the 
visible|invisible digital art world, and 3D web work as a tiny  tiny 
proportion of that world.
...trying not to insult anyone... ;-)