User:Artemis gryllaki/Grad Project

Syster Papyri Magicae

Syster Papyri Magicae is a particular and eclectic collection of stories, testimonies and practices of feminist hackers. It aims to collect scattered old, present and fictional documentation of the memories and techniques used in the context of feminist hacker initiatives. It wants to amplify their urgency and potentials. To document these instances of community efforts and collective practices, it uses the carrier bag of fiction, as Ursula le Guin has suggested, in order to playfully ....

The editor, by participating in existing hacker communities, initiating new ones, and learn about old initiatives from online archives, aims to reflect on their suggestions and amplify their potential.

It amplifies, tries IRL and playfully documents existing practices, and encourages people to collect around them and try their own. How would they respond to similar situations? Would they use similar strategies as the Systers, or would they react differently?

This project is initiated and inspired by existing feminist hacker practices but also aspires to initiate and inspire new ones. It builds on the efforts and practices of feminist practices and pedagogies. It is especially dedicated to excluded individuals and groups that bring their own responses to exclusions that happening in tech environments, digital and physical.

activities

Three main activities boosted this project

1) Participating in existing feminist hacker projects, workshops, events, meeting people who are actively involved in feminist hacker communities and projects.

2) Initiating series of workshops, feminist radio experimental pieces, networking through communities in Rotterdam, Athens and online.

3) Collecting stories, memories, tools and experiences from feminist hackers, excluded individual in tech physical and digital environments. Documenting these stories and practices in a playful collection, rewriting them inserting fictional elements, but also possible open ends to specific situations.

instances

The physical IRL meetings started to happen in Varia but were stopped with Covid-19. After that, a few online gatherings took place in the context of feminist hacking, through video chat Jitsi. Brought context in-> /etc workshop, zine camp, amro festival, varia centre of everyday technology, p-hnode-radio The digital part of the project is realised through the development of a website to interactive story-telling narration, and a wiki to collect and edit new stories.

publication

The context of the development of this project came from the research thesis "Syster Systems" which explores (3 components)