User:Silviolorusso/Programm-ed-in
Programm(ed)ing Culture, 25/10/2011
Audrey Samson, from Canada, Quebec.
Her experience: Flying pilot → ski instructor → computer science → ceramics → media design at Piet Zwart
She is interested in archiving system, definition, categorization and the social structures deriving from this.
Re-enterfacing practice.
Threads: reenterfacing sewing machine / computers | Google image search, http://ideacritik.com/threads/
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Started opening up radios and techy stuff. Tech jewellery. Radio: transmission and reception.(Nich Collins). Navigate the city in a different way. Not hide away tech but show it. When tech is seamless, it becomes dangerous.
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Networked performance. Communicate with Database of the dead with touchscreen.
Lag time of the internet. People is used to istantaneous reaction.
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Collectives:
- Aether 9, telematic performance group, workshop in Geneve. People from many part of the world. Nine framesd interface. Accessibility. Slow Motion. 1 frame per second. Parameters as boundaries. Frames with textual description. Also live chat. LRRH (2008) wolf and sex chat.
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GenderChangers, strarted from ASCII in 1999 (diaspora of women).
Hardware course: open up computer and reaseemble them in order to understand how they work.
Main principles:
- recycled hardware
- free software
- internet access for all
- exchange of technical skill among women and trans.
First website structured like linux tree.
Why women-only? In women-only schools, girls less intimidated, less scared. The man generally has the screwdriver!
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Systerserver: a server for gender related projects driven by women.
/etc Eclectic Tech Carnival. Carnival was the only moment where you could tell your lord off.
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WAITS (Women in Art Information Technology and Science) foundation.
genderchangers:
-workshop -actions -presentations -how-to -networks
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IRC March on women's day.
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Workshops in CKC
wii, synths, dance, hip hop, etc.
Eric Shrijver,
collaborative notes of the presentation here