[-empyre-] Week 3 on empyre: Thinking and Tinkering

[helen varley jamieson]

she is in vienna, running ms baltazar's laboratory (women's hack lab
http://mzbaltazarslaboratory.org/) & finished her phd last year, on "
Feminist Hackerspaces. A Research on Feminist Space Collectives in Open
Culture”. http://grenzartikel.com/projects/?page_id=2

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On 23/02/15 2:47 54AM, Ana Valdés wrote:
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> Last I spoke with Stefie she was in Vienna writing her PhD:)
> She had a very interesting workshop in Brussels, in Okno, a place
> where techs, hackers, artists and theorics work together
> the link is http://okno.be
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> They make very interesting projects making gardens in the roofs,
> monitoring bees and a lot of cool stuff
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> Ana
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> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Renate Terese Ferro
> <rferro at cornell.edu <mailto:rferro at cornell.edu>> wrote:
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>     Renate responded.  Thanks Ana!  How small our world is.  My
>     apologies for
>     responding so late but I have been so overwhelmed since I arrived
>     back in
>     town from NYC where the College Art Association was held.  Have
>     you had
>     any other sightings of Stephanie Wuschitz.  I know she was writing
>     her PHD
>     thesis on women and technology.  The cultural nuances in relation to
>     digital culture is one that we do need to consider and  reflect on
>     a bit
>     more.
>     Thank you so much for sharing these recollections with us
>     especially in
>     our current political climate.
>     Renate
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>     Ana wrote:
>     Stefanie was a participant as well of our workshop in Damascus Syria
>     together with Palestinian girls using games as narrative of the
>     diaspora
>     and trying to empower them to play a more active role in the society.
>     Syria was at that time a rather secularists society where women had
>     possibilities to study and work. The Sharia laws were not
>     applicable and
>     both Christian and Moslem communities lived side by side, such
>     different
>     than today's sectarism.
>     Ana
>     El feb 17, 2015 10:52 AM, "Renate Terese Ferro"
>     <rferro at cornell.edu <mailto:rferro at cornell.edu>>
>     escribió:
>     ...
>     > A few years ago at Harvestwork in New York City, Stefanie Wuschitz  from
>     > Vienna collaborated with Harvestwork¹s 2010 Artist In Residence
>     Lesley
>     > Flanigan to
>     > host a two day workshop for  women artists on interactive tools.  I
>     > attended that event and though the mission of the workshop was to
>     > demystify the tools of technology, I recognized that to teach or
>     share
>     > only the technology was not addressing the complicated and embedded
>     >layers
>     > of social, cultural and
>     > political values that are inscribed in these tools. Many of our
>     > technological innovations originated from our military industrial
>     >complex.
>     > Unless critically
>     > dissected and understood  these  patriarchal systems simply remain
>     > unchecked.  I have been a proponent since I began working in digital
>     > culture and technology to create and teach from a critical
>     perspective,
>     > one that is cross-disciplinary where tools and technology do not
>     exist in
>     > the void of the workshop or lab but where they were understood
>     as a ways
>     > and means to be thought through via other disciplines and modes of
>     > communication.
>     >
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>     Renate Ferro
>     Visiting Assistant Professor of Art,Cornell University
>     Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office:  306
>     Ithaca, NY  14853
>     Email:   <rferro at cornell.edu <mailto:rferro at cornell.edu>
>     <mailto:rtf9 at cornell.edu <mailto:rtf9 at cornell.edu>>>
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