Cyberfeminism is the synergistic creation of multiple artists and feminists in the mid 90s although its title is largely attributed to the feminist art collective VNS Matrix and the cultural theorist Sadie Plant. In 1991 VNS Matrix released their Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century; at the same time, Sadie Plant was reclaiming technology as feminine, citing Ada Lovelace, early telephone operators, and the parallels between power-loom weaving and the Web. Within this space feminists passionate about technology and the revolutionary space being created made works of art, newsletters, zines, and webpages encouraging women to embrace technology as their right, as a tool to resist the patriarchy, as a shedding of physical form, and as an innately feminine concept.
