About

Maria Fernandez is an Associate Professor in the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Cornell University, based in Goldwin Smith Hall. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and specializes in the history and theory of digital art, cybernetics and art in the late 1950s and 1960s, and feminist media arts. Fernandez is the author of 'Cosmopolitanism in Mexican Visual Culture' (Texas University Press, 2014), which explores Mexican visual arts as a negotiation between local and global influences within power relations, and she received the Arvey Book Award by the Association for Latin American Art in 2015 for this work. She also co-edited 'Domain Errors: Cyberfeminist Practices' (2002) with Faith Wilding and Michelle Wright, and edited 'Latin American Modernisms and Technology' (2018), a collection examining Latin American engagement with modern technologies. Her research focuses on cybernetics, feminist media arts, posthumanism, new materialism, BioArt, AI in art, and aesthetics of interaction and responsiveness. Fernandez has contributed essays to numerous journals and edited collections, and is currently working on a book about the British cybernetician Gordon Pask and investigating the contributions of women artists working in new media to posthumanisms and new materialisms.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Humanities
• Philosophy
• Geography
• Art

Selected publications

• Feminist Cyberlaw

  University of California Press eBooks · 2024

  • Political Science
  • Political Science

  This vibrant and visionary reimagining of the field of cyberlaw through a feminist lens brings together emerging and established scholars and practitioners to explore how gender, race, sexuality, disability, class, and the intersections of these identities affect cyberspace and the laws that govern it. It promises to build a movement of scholars whose work charts a near future where cyberlaw is informed by feminism.

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• La igualdad de derechos de las personas empleadas de hogar es ya (y por fin) una realidad

  2022-09-06

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• La concurrencia de varias sociedades de un grupo a una licitación administrativa: problemática desde un punto de vista del Derecho de la competencia

  Revista de derecho de la competencia y la distribución · 2021

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  • Humanities
  • Humanities
  • Political Science

  espanolEste articulo cuestiona si varias sociedades de un mismo grupo empresarial pueden concurrir a una misma licitacion publica, teniendo en cuenta que el articulo 139.3 de la Ley de Contratos del Sector Publico sienta el principio de oferta unica: “Cada licitador no podra presentar mas de una proposicion”. El supuesto es relativamente habitual (aunque pueda sorprender: uno puede preguntarse que sentido tiene que empresas de un mismo grupo compitan entre ellas) ya que no existe una prohibicion legal. El articulo da sentido a este comportamiento (el grupo de sociedades tira con varios dados, el resto de empresarios solo puede usar uno), plantea los problemas que suscita, ademas, por la vulneracion de la Ley de Defensa de la Competencia, para concluir en la conveniencia de una modificacion legislativa. La actualidad del tema se pone de manifiesto por la reciente publicacion en el DOUE de 18 de marzo de 2021, de la Comunicacion de la Comision relativa a las herramientas para combatir la colusion en la contratacion publica y a las orientaciones acerca de como aplicar el motivo de exclusion conexo. EnglishThis article questions whether several companies of the same business group can participate in the same public tender, taking into account that article 139.3 of the Public Sector Contracts Law establishes the principle of a single offer: “Each bidder may not present more than one proposition. The assumption is relatively common (although it may surprise: one may wonder what sense it makes for companies of the same group to compete with each other) since there is no legal prohibition. The article gives meaning to this behavior (the group of companies rolls with several dice, the rest of the businessmen can only use one), and exposes the problems that it raises, in addition, due to the violation of the Law on Defense of Competition, to conclude in the convenience of a legislative amendment. The topicality of the subject is shown by the recent publication in the OJEU of March 18, 2021, of the Communication of the Commission on the tools to combat collusion in public procurement and the guidelines on how to apply the motive of related exclusion.

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• En España los trabajadores de plataformas ya tienen convenio colectivo

  2021-12-27

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  El acuerdo firmado entre los sindicatos y una plataforma digital en España contempla informar a los trabajadores cómo se organiza la gestión del trabajo mediante el uso de algoritmos. Esta es una ‘reivindicación bandera’ de los riders de todo el mundo.

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• Las nuevas modalidades de alojamiento turístico en Castilla-La Mancha: aparición, evolución y distribución territorial

  Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles · 2021 · 3 citations

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  • Humanities
  • Humanities
  • Geography

  La presente investigación se centra en el estudio de la implantación y crecimiento del alquiler vacacional en el espacio castellanomanchego, así como su incidencia geográfica, temporal y social, con el fin de valorar la magnitud del fenómeno. El objetivo general radica en el análisis detallado de la aparición, evolución y generalización en Castilla-La Mancha de las nuevas modalidades de alojamientos turísticos, apartamentos turísticos y viviendas de uso turístico en los últimos 25 años, considerando las posibles correlaciones positivas entre recursos patrimoniales, naturales y culturales, y la existencia de infraestructuras de alojamiento en determinados espacios de la región, tanto urbanos como rurales. Junto con la oferta tradicional de alojamientos en núcleos urbanos, en los últimos años la región ha experimentado un cambio significativo al alza de distintas modalidades de establecimientos relacionados con la importancia que va adquiriendo la práctica del turismo rural y de naturaleza y el turismo cultural y de centros urbanos.

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• El teletrabajo en España ya tiene legislación propia

  2020-09-27

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• Aproximación a un entorno natural y patrimonial desde la didáctica de la geografía: los montes del ayuntamiento de Cuenca

  Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja) · 2019-01-01

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• Dinámicas y procesos territoriales: Cuenca, ciudad Patrimonio de la Humanidad

  Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja) · 2017-01-01

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  espanolHace veinte anos de la catalogacion por la UNESCO de Cuenca como ciudad Patrimonio de la Humanidad, inclusion que ofrece una oportunidad de oro para conectar turismo y cultura. Esta condicion, junto con la construccion de nuevas infraestructuras de comunicacion como la autovia de Castilla‐La Mancha (A‐40) y la Linea de Alta Velocidadad, la puesta en marcha de la normativa regional de Ordenacion del Territorio y de las Actividades Urbanisticas, del planeamiento general y especial, de las politicas urbanas regionales y locales, la presencia y consolidacion de museos y la existencia de nuevos, la puesta en valor de nuevos recursos en la ciudad y en los territorios adyacentes a la misma, asi como la repercusion de todo ello en el incremento de las infraestructuras de alojamiento, de plazas, de visitantes y pernoctaciones, constituyen el objetivo de nuestro estudio. Se trata de analizar las dinamicas y procesos territoriales que han propiciado el inicio de la regeneracion de una ciudad como Cuenca, asociada fundamentalmente a la cultura y al sector turistico como motores de desarrollo. EnglishTwenty years ago of declaration by UNESCO of Cuenca as a World Heritage city this point offers a golden opportunity to joint the tourism and culture. This factor attached with aspects such as: the construction of new infrastructures of communication such as Castilla‐La Mancha motorway (A‐40) and the Line of High Speed, the implementation of the regional legislation on Spatial Planning and Urban Activities ‐general and special planning‐, the presence and consolidation of museums and the creation of new culture spaces, the value of new resources in the city and in the surroundings, the increase of the accommodation infrastructures (numbers of hotel beds, visitors and overnight stays) constitute the main objective of our study. It seeks to analyze the dynamics and territorial processes that have allowed for the beginning of the regeneration of a city such as Cuenca primarily associated with the culture and the tourism sector as engines of development.

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• Antecedents

  2017-07-26

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  For the first time in its history, SIGGRAPH focuses on Latin American artists working with digital technologies. This is momentous, as this subject has seldom been explored---neither in the history of new media art nor in the entire history of art---despite the tremendous growth of these fields in the last 20 years. The insufficiency of study in this area has to do in part with the historical tension between digital art and the art world, and with totalizing stereotypes of Latin American underdevelopment that perpetuate the marginalization of the region from modernity [1]. While the SIGGRAPH 2017 Art Gallery critically advances these histories, a multiplicity of inventive engagements of Latin American artists with a variety of modern technologies precedes it. Hence the exhibition is both unique and in conversation with a long tradition.

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• Antecedents

  Leonardo · 2017-08-01 · 1 citations

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  August 01 2017 Antecedents María Fernández María Fernández The History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A., mf252@cornell.eduMaría Fernández is Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University. Her research interests include the history and theory of digital art, postcolonial and gender studies, Latin American art and architecture, and the intersections of these fields. She is the author of Cosmopolitanism in Mexican Visual Culture (Texas University Press, 2014), which received the Arvey Book Award by the Association for Latin American Art in 2015. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information María Fernández The History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A., mf252@cornell.eduMaría Fernández is Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University. Her research interests include the history and theory of digital art, postcolonial and gender studies, Latin American art and architecture, and the intersections of these fields. She is the author of Cosmopolitanism in Mexican Visual Culture (Texas University Press, 2014), which received the Arvey Book Award by the Association for Latin American Art in 2015. Online Issn: 1530-9282 Print Issn: 0024-094X © 2017 María Fernández2017 Leonardo (2017) 50 (4): 414–417. https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_01460 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation María Fernández; Antecedents. Leonardo 2017; 50 (4): 414–417. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_01460 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsLeonardo Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 2017 María Fernández2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

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Frequent coauthors

• Joaquín Saúl García Marchante

  University of Castilla-La Mancha

  13 shared

• Elisabeth Kramer

  9 shared

• Tim Hinrichs

  Cornell University

  9 shared

• Robert Foster

  Cornell University

  9 shared

• Duana Fullwiley

  New York University Press

  9 shared

• Rachel Prentice

  Cornell University

  9 shared

• Abidin Kusno

  Cornell University

  9 shared

• Durba Ghosh

  Yale University

  9 shared

Awards & honors

• Arvey Book Award by the Association for Latin American Art i…