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# A Feminist Animation Festival Launches in Los Angeles
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/a-feminist-animation-festival-launches-in-los-angeles/
- Published: 2018-05-16T11:00:08.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:45:06.000Z
- Description: The Association of Hysteric Curators has organized the Soft Bytes animation festival, featuring the work of dozens of artists.
- Author: Matt Stromberg
- Tags: Art, Animation, Events, Los Angeles, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-18 14:37 (2018)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/05/gyuri-cloe-lee_national-gymnastics_still.jpg)

Gyuri Cloe Lee, still from “National Gymnastics” (2017) (image courtesy Association of Hysteric Curators)

It’s a disappointing, but not surprising, reality that the field of animation — like the related fields of tech, art, and cinema — are largely dominated by men, despite the fact that the [majority of animation students are women](http://womeninanimation.org/5050-by-2025/?ref=hyperallergic.com). To highlight the work of female and feminist-identified animators, the Association of Hysteric Curators has organized the [Soft Bytes animation festival](https://www.hystericcurators.com/single-post/2018/04/24/Soft-Bytes-A-Feminist-Animation-Festival-at-Tiger-Strikes-Asteroid?ref=hyperallergic.com), featuring the work of dozens of artists.

According to event organizer [Eugenia Barbuc](http://cargocollective.com/eugeniabarbuc?ref=hyperallergic.com), the AHC was “inspired by \[cyberfeminist media arts collective\] [VNS Matrix](https://vnsmatrix.net/?ref=hyperallergic.com), Saturday morning cartoons and radically inclusive feminist spaces like Micol Hebron’s [Situation Room.](https://www.facebook.com/TheSituationRoomLA/)” The aim, according to Barbuc, is to take an intersectional approach with a diversity of voices. To this end, the festival put out an open call for work by feminist-identified artists, specifying a “one-minute format to democratize the medium,” Barbuc said. Alongside these submissions, Soft Bytes will include work from [ECF Art Centers](https://www.ecf.net/?ref=hyperallergic.com) and [Creative Growth](http://www.creativegrowth.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com), organizations that serve children and adults with special needs and developmental disabilities. The festival has also curated an installation by the [Feminist Pornographic Collective Consciousness](http://feminist-pornographic-collective-consciousness.smvi.co/?ref=hyperallergic.com), which will feature an augmented reality zine that explores sexuality through an intersectional lens focusing on people of color, the LGBTQAI community, and those with disabilities.

**When:** Saturday, May 19, 7:30pm  
**Where:** Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Bendix Building, 1206 Maple Avenue, #523, Dowtown, Los Angeles)

*More info at* [*Association of Hysteric Curators*](https://www.hystericcurators.com/single-post/2018/04/24/Soft-Bytes-A-Feminist-Animation-Festival-at-Tiger-Strikes-Asteroid?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*