Hardware and Eco-Feminist Art: Hacking and Artistic Practices Towards Ethical Technology
Buchpräsentation von Patrícia J. Reis und Stefanie Wuschitz, IKW. Eine Veranstaltung, organisiert von den FWF | Elise Richter PEEK Fellows Patrícia J. Reis (Endossensorische Interaktion: Hacking the Body as a Black Box an der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien) und Stefanie Wuschitz (Datenkolonialismus in Indonesien. Künstlerische Strategien gegen digitalen Kolonialismus an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Labor von Mz* Baltazar.
Das Buch Hardware and Eco-Feminist Art: Hacking and Artistic Practices. Towards Ethical Technology ist das Ergebnis eines künstlerischen Forschungsprojekts, das vom FWF im Rahmen von PEEK finanziert wurde. Das PEEK Projekt Feminist Hacking: Building Circuits as an Artistic Practice wurde zwischen 2020 und 2023 an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien durchgeführt.
Die Autorinnen Patrícia J. Reis and Stefanie Wuschitz werden Teile des Buchs sowie den künstlerischen Output des PEEK Projekts vorstellen und in einer Q&A Session mit euch diskutieren. Hat unsere künstlerische Forschung über ethische Hardware, Care und ökofeministische Zugänge zu Technologie gefruchtet? Der Abend wird von Patrícia J. Reis and Stefanie Wuschitz in Zusammenarbeit mit Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory veranstaltet. Es wird hoffentlich ein feierliches Event mit guten Gesprächen und Snacks!
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About the Book:
It is an open secret that the hardware in our smart devices apart from plastics also contains raw materials mined in conflict regions. Can we move beyond this oppressive system of extraction to find ethical alternatives? Feminist hackers Patrícia J. Reis and Stefanie Wuschitz discuss developing technology through eco-feminist artistic tools, rooted in care economies, local knowledges and collective survival. Through an intensive knowledge-sharing process and collaboration with peers, they unpack eco-feminist theory and practices to propose resistance strategies grounded in ethical hardware and de-growth economies – contributing significantly to the new field of arts-based research.
This book was published by transcript Verlag with the publishing and open access funding provided by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) 10.55776/PUB1218 and can be downloaded for free under the Creative Commons Licence by 4.0.
Limited copies of the book will be available for purchase directly from the authors.
Patrícia J. Reis (b. 1981, Lisbon, Pt) is a media artist and researcher focusing on human-technology relationships, particularly in feminism, sensuality, and haptics. She studied Painting at ESAD.cr, graduated in 2004, and earned a Master's in Media Art from Lusófona University (2011) and a Ph.D. in Art from the University of Évora (2016). She is currently the project lead of FWF | Elise Richter PEEK Endossensorial interaction: Hacking the Body as a Black box at the University of Applied Arts Vienna where she also lectures at the Digital Art Department.
Stefanie Wuschitz (b. 1981, Vienna, At) is a data-research based artist in Vienna. She investigates the entanglement of gender, technology and power. She is currently affiliated to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and principal investigator of the project Data Colonialism in Indonesia. Alongside scholarly output the analysed data is also feeding into art projects such as interactive art installations, drawings and animations that were featured in solo exhibitions, film festivals and international venues.
Together, Reis and Wuschitz were board members of Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory and, from 2020 to 2023, served as postdoctoral researchers at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, working on the FWF | PEEK project Feminist hacking: building circuits as an artistic practice.