Daniella Sheinman
Interactive Video-Art Brain Storm 2017
Arachne’s Woof: Women, Creativity and History
In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the goddess Minerva (the Greek deity of war and wisdom as well as the patron of weaving and embroidery) takes exception to the hubris of the mortal Arachne, a poor country girl who defiantly claims to be the superior weaver. Minerva, disguised as an old woman, appears to Arachne and suggests that […]