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information leaflet to accompany a banner for Somatic Design

Barcelona, 15M 2015 / Jara Rocha & Femke Snelting / in response to: http://www.baued.es/blogdebau/2015/05/18/disseny-somatic/

exquisite corpse -- unfolded

Steph Alarcon, Christina Dunbar-Hester, Tamsyn Gilbert, Seda Gurses, Jara Rocha, Femke Snelting and Sophie Toubin collaborate to examine feminism, technology and the digital.

[extract from New Critical's exquisite corpse:]

In order to better understand the materialities of our (digital) present world-making, a speculative crossing of four topological vectors is proposed here for a (sintetic though) multilayered approach to the processes of social (often soft) mattering we are involved in.

Our ethic, politic, erotic and aesthetic systems, also from a technological point of view, are strongly affected by a dense repertory of gestures and agencies upon which we (humans) have only a tiny aprehension margin. This is why it might be interesting to first, when talking about these complex systems, declare a suspension of hierarchical cartesian judgement and storytelling (based on the subject-object dychotomy) and perhaps try to apply what ANT scholars have named the “principle of radical symmetry”. This will help on two fronts: 1) test de-anthropocentrified ontologies and 2) get away of essentialist approaches to somatic entities.

Also, and attending to the call of the Invisible Committee to think beyond civil liberties and go deep into the logistic composition of both hegemonic and counter-hegemonic equipments for life, a close look at infrastructures functioning can help us learn more about governance of the material world. Notions of scale and standarization in this vector are plausibly issues to deal with if an idea of autonomous shaping and caring of infrastructures is brough upon the table.

In realtion to infrastructures, there is a third tensor that clearly operates when dealing with power relations (in gender, class, race or species): that of the reproductive economies. Historically invisible, the tactics for sustainability, resilience and ultimate survival of communities are displayed by crucial agents who/which set up the basic conditions of possibility for life in its more radical materiality. Following that line of thought: how about talking about reproductive technologies in a wider sense?

Soft power is a key concept to understand relationality in our present ecosystems. This is why the notion of extitution brought up by Serres in Atlas can help in going beyond the inside-outside structuring of  institutions and perhaps test a connected-disconnected logic. Daniel López insightfully proposes to think of this vector in terms of processes of extitutionalization. This shift could be useful get rid of pre-established forms (strong identities, social organizations, geopolitical foldings, etc.).

What implications would it have to articulate this vectors in an applied-to-case/situtated manner? Would it help in challenging the imposed hegemonic regulation of social matters? Can we start practicing critical and active dispossession in relation to technologies?

Now, what would be the best way to identify and put into practice the potential in each of these topological vectors and their crossings? How can we both aprehend and be dispossessed from present semiotic-material establishment to unfold other common-world-making possibilities?

[the whole text can be accessed here: http://www.newcriticals.com/exquisite-corpse/print ]

it kinda feels like

UKI

[UKI - viral game - an intro by shu Lea Cheang on Vimeo]

> he encontrado ésto, que es de hace ya un rato, y me ha enternecido mucho

+ info en la web de entonces

THF!

T H Ffeminist 
convergencia trans 
gente de todos los géneros 
disentir socialmente 
piratas guerrilla punto 
eclectic tech carnival
genderhacking

Calafou
del 4 al 11 de agosto


+ info aquí + aquí + aquí

difráctate

 difráctate.

UN-GENDERING INTERFACES? // OKF: gender & OSHW

Frederique Muscinesi de Ultra_Lab me invitó a una sesión en el festival de la Open Knowledge Foundation que se celebraba este año en Helsinki: The Role of Gender Within F/LOSS, Hardware & Making Communities: What’s the Difference? Con Catarina Mota, Alison Powell, Frederique Muscinesi y Wendy Van Wynsberghe. ...tuvimos muchos problemas técnicos, y la conversación quedó colgando. Pero la retomaremos. OKF - Gender and OSHW + info: http://okfestival.org/gender-and-diversity/

gender oscillator K1T

K1T

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build your own gender oscillator !
construye tu propio oscilador de genero !

http://root.ps/download/k1t_oscilador.tar.gz


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singular waves !
ondas singulares !

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additive synthesis !
síntesis aditivo !

http://root.ps/download/k1t_oscilador.tar.gz


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do it yourself !
do it with others !
hazlo tu misma!
hazlo con otras!

http://root.ps/download/k1t_oscilador.tar.gz


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instrucciones :

1. Abre kit_oscillador.txt
2. Assemblar componentes.
3. Activar funciones
3. Oscillar.



problemas con tar.gz ? prueba este .zip :
http://root.ps/download/k1t_oscilador.zip


>>>> by Pedro Soler.

UKI game level one @ Piksel.no

La semana que viene presentaremos UKI game level one [infect the city] en Piksel (Bergen, Noruega). Esta parte del proyecto transmedia IKU/UKI, empezó a desarrollarse en Medialab-Prado, y continuó en el SummerLab de LABoral (y posterior residencia).

Shu Lea Cheang estará simultaneamente presentando la performance de UKI en La Internacional Cuir (MNCARS), comisariada por Beatriz Preciado.

+info: http://www.u-k-i.co/

Gender Changer

(Buscando una imagen para el grupo de género y tecnología de Medialab-Prado).