Online-Gespräch
Queer Hacking is an online discussion event closing the six weeks residency programme Youth and A.I.: (Un)learning with robots organised by the Goethe Institute Bratislava, Slovak Design Center and Sensorium Festival. The discussion between our guests will develop around the techno-societal challenges we are facing in recent years, now highlighted even more through the global pandemic.
In the past year, many governments, companies and organizations have looked at technology as the solution to many of our problems, but we must first pause and ask ourselves what it means to us as a people, a community.
With technology taking over many aspects of our lives, we ask how it has shaped the way we perceive ourselves in relation to our identity and self-expression. Who are the creators of this technology that we so heavily rely on?
Is it possible to use our current technologies as an expression for feminism?
We hope to be able to answer some of these questions through our speakers and engage in a conversation on the effects of technology on our identities and feminisms.
The event will be held in Slovak and English language through the Zoom platform.
Dalia Othman
is the Project Manager of
https://jeem.me/en, an Arabic website focusing on Gender, Sex and Sexuality from the Goethe-Institut. Prior to joining the Goethe-Institut, she was the Gender and Tech project coordinator at Tactical Tech where she also conducted research on online Gender Based Violence. Othman was a Research Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and a visiting Scholar at MIT's Center for Civic Media. She spends her time these days exploring topics intersecting between technology, feminism and care. She received her MA from New York University's Media, Culture and Communication Program.
Cornelia Sollfrank
is an artist, researcher and university lecturer based in Berlin. She studied Fine Art at the Munich Art Academy and Hamburg University of the Arts, and completed a PhD at University of Dundee (UK). Recurring subjects in her artistic work in and about digital media and network culture are new forms of (political) organization, authorship and intellectual property, gender and techno-feminism. As a pioneer of Internet art, Cornelia Sollfrank built a reputation with three central projects: the net.art generator – a web-based art-producing ‘machine,’ Female Extension – her famous hack of the first competition for Internet art, and her activities related to Cyberfeminism – such as initiating and running the Old Boys Network (1997-2001).
In her PhD “Performing the Paradoxes of Intellectual Property,” she investigated the increasingly conflicting relationship between art and copyright which led her to her current interest in digital commons and their aesthetics. Her most recent performance À la recherche de l’information perdue is about gender stereotypes in the digital underground. She is currently working at Zürich University of the Arts as associate researcher in the project “Creating Commons.” Her projects and lectures have been presented internationally at museums, art festivals, universities and conferences.
Cornelia’s recent publications include "The beautiful Warriors. Technofeminist Practice in the 21st Century" (minorcompositions.org), "Aesthetics of the Commons" (diaphanes.net) and "Fix My Code" (with Winnie Soon) (eeclectic.de) – all open access.
hvale vale
is a feminist, activist and writer. Her interests are the intersections between internet rights, sexuality, LGBTIQ and women’s rights, and the transformative power of technology from a feminist intersectional perspective and practice. As such she explores the internet poetically, politically and practically and advocates for the #feministinternet.
Sexuality, movement building, storytelling, digital safety, communication and design of remote interactive and participatory spaces, together with exchanging, learning, nurturing and building networks, are all central to her work.
Introduction:
Markus Huber, director Goethe Institute
ZOOM:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89499232574?pwd=OEgyNkdVN1l2Tm16bVRZcFpmUUxOZz09
Meeting ID: 894 9923 2574
Passcode: 0u67XC
Facebook event:
https://fb.me/e/JRKeHjsC
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