FemHackFest2014: Hacking+Feminism+Intergenerational
FemHackFest2014: Hacking+Feminism+Intergenerational
To demystify and reappropriate technologies for their strategic uses.
Submissions should cover different aspects of hacking, related (but not limited) to techno-feminism, knowledge sharing, artistic practices with hardware and software, electronics, mind and body.
This year, we want to stress on the intergenerational aspect of feminist hacking, and we strongly encourage you to try to include it in your proposal, were it experimental, work in progress or already completed research. Intergenerational aspects include, but are not limited to:
- technology and hacking throughout the different generations and practices of diversion and reappropriation
- common misconceptions of age, youth and aging in queer, feminist, geek and hacker communities
- uniting different generations around technology and hacking practices.
In FemHack understanding, technology includes but also goes beyond social networking platforms, hardware, and computer programing. It refers to hacking ideologies such as patriarchy and capitalism; to body hacking and food hacking; it's also about choosing our ways of thinking, of feeling, of living. FemHackFest takes an intersectional and intergenerational feminist posture where learning from peers of all genders and ages are at its root.
CURIOSITY-POLITIZATION-DECOLONISATION
The FemHackFest2014 is guided by the following core themes:
(1) Igniting curiosity: breaking narrow understandings of technologies
We invite submission proposals for workshops, presentations and discussions on the above general themes and beyond.
Submissions should be received by October 15 , October 20 on the following e-mail: femhack@lists.riseup.net
Submissions should include:
* a title
* a brief description (100-150 words) of your project
* format of the presentation: hands-on or artistic workshop, group discussion, presentation.
* needed materials for your presentation/workshop/discussion.
To demystify and reappropriate technologies for their strategic uses.
Submissions should cover different aspects of hacking, related (but not limited) to techno-feminism, knowledge sharing, artistic practices with hardware and software, electronics, mind and body.
This year, we want to stress on the intergenerational aspect of feminist hacking, and we strongly encourage you to try to include it in your proposal, were it experimental, work in progress or already completed research. Intergenerational aspects include, but are not limited to:
- technology and hacking throughout the different generations and practices of diversion and reappropriation
- common misconceptions of age, youth and aging in queer, feminist, geek and hacker communities
- uniting different generations around technology and hacking practices.
In FemHack understanding, technology includes but also goes beyond social networking platforms, hardware, and computer programing. It refers to hacking ideologies such as patriarchy and capitalism; to body hacking and food hacking; it's also about choosing our ways of thinking, of feeling, of living. FemHackFest takes an intersectional and intergenerational feminist posture where learning from peers of all genders and ages are at its root.
CURIOSITY-POLITIZATION-DECOLONISATION
The FemHackFest2014 is guided by the following core themes:
(1) Igniting curiosity: breaking narrow understandings of technologies
- How does curiosity to hacking emerge and take place?
- Who and what ignite technical passion in our lives?
- How can we strategically use technical tools?
- How do we learn and transmit knowledge from and between generations?
- Skill-sharing sessions on how to ignite curiosity.
- What does feminist hacking mean to intersectional and intergenerational feminist and how does it materialise ?
- What are different aspects of hacking - and their practical implications?
- What relations do we create between our bodies, our ages and our hacking practices?
- How to consider technologies as commons rather than tools for exploitation and privatisation?
- Can we bring back a conception of technologies, tools and knowledge as commons ?
- How are feminist hackers of all genders and ages dealing with mass and private life surveillance in addition to the privatisation of technologies ?
- Which trust practices and security tools (such as encryption) can help us to prevent states, corporations and individuals to intrude in our lives.
- What stories, case studies, tools, strategies or public actions against mass surveillance and data mining inspire us as feminist and citizens of all age ?
We invite submission proposals for workshops, presentations and discussions on the above general themes and beyond.
Submissions should be received by October 15 , October 20 on the following e-mail: femhack@lists.riseup.net
Submissions should include:
* a title
* a brief description (100-150 words) of your project
* format of the presentation: hands-on or artistic workshop, group discussion, presentation.
* needed materials for your presentation/workshop/discussion.