Kathy Rae HUFFMAN. About networking in, before and after the 90s Huffman will give examples of communication practices that artists used from the 1960s through the late 1990s and beyond. The various communities established disregarded political borders, and created and intertwined, overlapping web of social networks. Kathy Rae Huffman is an American freelance curator, networker, and writer. Since the early 1980s, she has curated media exhibitions, and coordinated events for museums, international media art festivals and arts initiatives. Her early interest in artists’ television and video art, and her passion for feminist strategies in online environments promote activist positions. Huffman co-founded FACES: Gender/Technology/Art, an online community for women (1997), and VRML Art (later Web3D Art) with Van Gogh TV (1998). She is a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community Committee and currently resides in Southern California. https://festival2022.rixc.org/