<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Last I spoke with Stefie she was in Vienna writing her PhD:)<br></div>She had a very interesting workshop in Brussels, in Okno, a place where techs, hackers, artists and theorics work together<br></div>the link is <a href="http://okno.be">http://okno.be</a><br><br></div>They make very interesting projects making gardens in the roofs, monitoring bees and a lot of cool stuff<br><br></div>Ana<br><div><div><div><br><br><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Renate Terese Ferro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu" target="_blank">rferro@cornell.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
Renate responded. Thanks Ana! How small our world is. My apologies for<br>
responding so late but I have been so overwhelmed since I arrived back in<br>
town from NYC where the College Art Association was held. Have you had<br>
any other sightings of Stephanie Wuschitz. I know she was writing her PHD<br>
thesis on women and technology. The cultural nuances in relation to<br>
digital culture is one that we do need to consider and reflect on a bit<br>
more.<br>
Thank you so much for sharing these recollections with us especially in<br>
our current political climate.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Renate<br>
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Ana wrote:<br>
Stefanie was a participant as well of our workshop in Damascus Syria<br>
together with Palestinian girls using games as narrative of the diaspora<br>
and trying to empower them to play a more active role in the society.<br>
Syria was at that time a rather secularists society where women had<br>
possibilities to study and work. The Sharia laws were not applicable and<br>
both Christian and Moslem communities lived side by side, such different<br>
than today's sectarism.<br>
Ana<br>
El feb 17, 2015 10:52 AM, "Renate Terese Ferro" <<a href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu">rferro@cornell.edu</a>><br>
escribió:<br>
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<span class="im HOEnZb">> A few years ago at Harvestwork in New York City, Stefanie Wuschitz from<br>
> Vienna collaborated with Harvestwork¹s 2010 Artist In Residence Lesley<br>
> Flanigan to<br>
> host a two day workshop for women artists on interactive tools. I<br>
> attended that event and though the mission of the workshop was to<br>
> demystify the tools of technology, I recognized that to teach or share<br>
> only the technology was not addressing the complicated and embedded<br>
>layers<br>
> of social, cultural and<br>
> political values that are inscribed in these tools. Many of our<br>
> technological innovations originated from our military industrial<br>
>complex.<br>
> Unless critically<br>
> dissected and understood these patriarchal systems simply remain<br>
> unchecked. I have been a proponent since I began working in digital<br>
> culture and technology to create and teach from a critical perspective,<br>
> one that is cross-disciplinary where tools and technology do not exist in<br>
> the void of the workshop or lab but where they were understood as a ways<br>
> and means to be thought through via other disciplines and modes of<br>
> communication.<br>
><br>
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</span><span class="im HOEnZb">Renate Ferro<br>
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art,Cornell University<br>
Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office: 306<br>
Ithaca, NY 14853<br>
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