Museum für angewandte Kunst Stubenring 5, 1010 Wien, AT
1.10.24, 19h
Conversation Piece: Eco-Feminist Decolonial Hardware with Patrícia J. Reis and Stefanie Wuschitz
Clay PCB, an artistic work by Patrícia J. Reis and Stefanie Wuschitz. Their work raises important questions regarding ecofeminism, contemporary design, and the use of technology and its raw materials.
THE FORMAT CONVERSATION PIECES
We need to talk! In the art education format Conversation Pieces we will speak with artists, activists, scientists, and personalities from various fields about select objects from the MAK Collection. Conversation Pieces is dedicated to themes like diversity, feminism, participation or loneliness, symbiotic bodies, racism in collections, planet care, and much more. We use the MAK as a polyphonic place for the exchange of ideas and to engage in various sociopolitical discourses and problems that enable new perspectives on an extraordinary collection. Conversation Pieces can be understood as an impetus to make widespread pictorial worlds and narratives visible and to critically question them by talking about them together.
PRICE
In addition to the event fee, a museum ticket (admission ticket, MAK Annual Pass, Kulturpass, etc.) is required to attend the event. Use the online booking tool for reduced admission, or take advantage of the new Conversation Piece 2024 subscription.
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“Clay PCB: Eco-Feminist Decolonial Hardware” comprises two projects:
The Clay PCB: This microcontroller board is made exclusively from urban mined electronic components and features a base of wild local clay, consciously collected from the Austrian forest and fired in a bonfire. The project is entirely open source, with all tutorials and programs available for download on the project website.
The Ethical Hardware Kit: This artistic “survival kit” envisions a future where crucial resources for hardware production are alarmingly scarce. It includes a collection of tools, materials, and detailed instructions designed to empower feminist hacking practices, even in challenging times.
These speculative art and design projects aim to challenge conventional thinking, pushing us to explore innovative alternatives to the prevailing toxicity and exploitation associated with conflict materials essential to hardware manufacturing in a creative and artistic way. In doing so, we aim to transcend traditional boundaries and contribute to a more sustainable and ethical future for hardware production.
See you soon at the ARS 4-8 September in Linz, Austria!
Ethical Hardware Workshop at PIF
It is an open secret that the hardware in our smart devices contains not only plastics but also conflict minerals such as tungsten, tin, tantalum, silver, and gold. Hence, technology is not neutral. In this workshop, we investigate alternative hardware made from locally sourced materials, known as ethical hardware, to develop and speculate upon renewable practices for the benefit of both nature and humans.
During the workshop, we will make printed circuit boards with wild local clay, using recycled silver as the main electrical conductor. We will model the boards, paint the circuits, and fire them in an open bonfire at PIFcamp. Participants will solder all electronic components and test the circuit for an interactive microcontroller board that can control digital and analogue sensors as inputs and speakers, LEDs, and motors as outputs (similar to Arduino).
Feminist Hardware speculates on technologies that can spark debates about fair trade, ethical, biodegradable hardware in the spirit of environmental justice. We build circuits that utilise traditional craft and collaborative knowledge as an artistic practice to promote decolonial thinking. Our PCBs (Printed Circuit Boards) are made from wild clay, mined in the forest and fired at a Danube Island barbecue site. A project by Patrícia J. Reis and students from her course.
Contributors: Tam-Anh Nguyen, Michael Schmidl, Nicolas Henao Bonnet, Yifan Li, David Obradović, Franci Kas, Isidor Forster, Regina Fuchs, Max Engelbert Bauer, Matthias Sanoll, Yan Chmarau, Frederike Gordillo and Patrícia J. Reis
Semmelweisklinik, Hockegasse 37 / Haus 4, 1180 Vienna
8. – 16.05.2024, Vernissage: 8.05., 18:00
Together with actors from Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory, RAD Performance, Kollektiv Raumstation, Friends & Partners in Crime, the artist collective Sandkasten Syndikat brings a pirate beach to Vienna.
PIRATE CULTURES is a transdisciplinary research that examines piracy as an emancipatory politics of re-appropriation, care and DIY culture. The exhibition revolves around practices of reclaiming the city and the (technology-enabled) self-organization of solidarity networks.
Counter and net cultures grow with and complement the informal city. They create connecting points between physical and virtual spaces.
Based on a series of self-organized initiatives, the exhibition tells of unusual urban routes, digital spheres free from existing power relations, resistance against patriarchal body politics, the bypass of conventional media infrastructures, open source systems and peer production – of struggles and utopian desires.
On May 1st, the artist collective Sandkasten Syndikat hijacks the ‘Kulturdampfer’ at Praterstern and sends out an emergency signal to allied cultural workers: MAYDAY!
Together with actors from Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory, Kollektiv Raumstation, RAD Performance and friends, we are looking for critical-creative answers to precarious living and working conditions. The exhibition revolves around topics of re-appropriation, hijacking and hacking, DIY cultures, commoning, care and the (technology-enabled) self-organization of solidarity networks.
Patrícia J. Reis, Agata Nowosielska
Curator: Anna Ciabach
15.01 – 16.02.2024
Opening: 15.01.2024, 7:00 p.m
Austrian Cultural Forum
ul. Próżna 7/9
Warszawa
The latest exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum is a meeting between two artists: Patricia J. Reis from Portugal, who lives in Vienna, and Agata Nowosielska from Gdansk.
The title “Love’s Modern Nature” is a narrative about the current changes in the field of relationships, the understanding of which goes far beyond the romantic and interpersonal. Rather, it is a complex ecosystem of tangled feelings and fears, constantly reacting to changes that we as individuals cannot fully keep up with.
SOS 2.0_ FÜRSORGE IST DIE SCHWESTER DER AUTONOMIE VON MZ* BALTAZAR’S LAB IN DER MEDIENWERKSTATT WIEN
SOS 2.0_ Fürsorge ist die Schwester der Autonomie
Eine Ausstellung von Mz*Baltazar’s Lab (Olivia Jaques, Patricia J. Reis, Lale Rodgarkia-Dara, Nicole Sabella, Anna Watzinger und Stefanie Wuschitz) in der Medienwerkstatt Wien
Wir danken den folgenden Künstler*innen für die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Mz* Baltazar’s Lab im Rahmen der Ausstellungsproduktion: Catarina Reis, Erika Farina, Taguhi Torosyan und der Medienwerkstatt Wien!
Feminist Hardware: Making Printed Circuit Boards with Natural Clay
by Patrícia J. Reis & Stefanie Wuschitz at Hangar Barcelona
Date | 18.10 – 20.10.2023
Venue | Hangar, Barcelona
It is an open secret that the hardware in our smart devices contains not only plastics but also conflict minerals such as tungsten, tin, tantalum, silver and gold. Hence, technology is not neutral. In this workshop, given by Patrícia J. Reis (PT/AT) & Stefanie Wuschitz (AT), we investigate alternative hardware from locally sourced materials, so-called ethical hardware, to develop and speculate upon renewable practices for the benefit of both nature and humans.
During the workshop we will make Printed Circuit Boards with natural clay using recycled silver as main electrical conductors. We will model the boards, paint the circuit and fire it in an open fire at Hangar. On our last day participants will solder all electronic components and test our circuit for an interactive microcontroller board that can control digital and analogue sensors as inputs and speakers, leds and motors as outputs. The final boards will be shown in a public presentation on the last day and can be taken home by the participants by the end of the event.
This workshop is part of the “Fem_Lab exchange Catalonia-Austria” project, a collaboration between Mz* Baltazar’s Lab and Hangar, supported by the Delegation of the Government of Catalonia to Central Europe and the Ramon Llull Institute.
WORKSHOP: Fair Acupuncture sonification by Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory
Registration is necessary, only 10 spots are available!
LINK IN BIO.
Fair Acupuncture sonification
Join Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory (Patrícia J. Reis & Stefanie Wuschitz) and build a device to sonify your most active acupuncture spots on the surface of your skin (no needles involved). You can later connect the input from your acupuncture points to Pure Data. For more sophisticated sounds and more detailed findings on how the environment changes your body we will build several prototypes of instruments. This workshop is trying to use only hardware that was created under fair labour conditions. Without harming the environment and avoiding commodity chains connected to mining. This can work if we use fair trade certified electronic components, self made and recycled electronic parts and explore the capacitive quality and resistance of our own body.
About Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory :
Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory is a feminist hackerspace in Vienna, encouraging art and technology that is developed from a female perspective. Founded in 2009.
This performance is a part of THE SPACE BETWEEN US – an immersive and healing experience curated by Improper Walls
Group Show at medienwerkstatt during the Vienna Art Week, Austria.
In the Kitchen
Visionen der Medienkunst 10
Ferdinand Doblhammer / Kilian Hanappi / Tom Hochwallner / Margarete Jahrmann / kondition pluriel / Litto/Daniela Weiss / Patrícia J. Reis / Ruth Schnell / Patryk Senwicki
Eröffnung: Freitag 05.11.2021, 19:00 Uhr
Ausstellungsdauer 05.11.2021 – 22.11.2021
MO/FR/SA 14:00 – 18:00 Uhr
Medienwerkstatt Wien, Neubaugasse 40a, 1070 Wien In Kooperation mit FLUSS – NÖ.Initiative für Foto- und Medienkunst
TALK “CITIZENS AND CITIES – WHAT LIES AROUND THE CORNER?
TALK “CITIZENS AND CITIES – WHAT LIES AROUND THE CORNER? with Pedro Costa, Associate Professor at ISCTE, Tracy Geragthy, Project Manager at Dublin City Council Culture Company, Jordi Baltá, Consultant at Projects Barcelona. 13/10/2021 in Aveiro, Portugal
Solo Show in collaboration with Carla Cabanas “From object to affect: proposals for future archives after the media” at Criatech 2021, Aveiro, Portugal.
Museu de Aveiro/Santa Joana
October 11-16
Day 11: 1h30 pm – 6h00 pmDay 12 to 13: 10h00 am – 12h30 pm / 1h30 pm – 6h00 pm
Days 15 a 16: 10h00 am – 12h30 pm / 1h30 pm – 6h00 pm / 8h00 pm – 13h30 pm
Happy to be one of the guest artists on the 2nd edition Aveiro Criatech Artistic Residences from 27th September to the 3rd November 2021!
After 5 weeks intensive work, it is time to say goodbye; There are no words to describe how grateful and fulfilled I feel after these five weeks of exchange, working together with the San Francisco Bay artists — Stephanie, Jenny, Sharmi, Erik, Marlys, Avital, and Parul. It has been a great pleasure to meet and work with them despite the approximate 6000 miles of physical distance between Vienna and the Bay Area; I have the odd and delightful feeling that I’ve actually met them in person. Check out our blog post!
Very proud to launch the Virtual exhibition of works created during this past month’s Impact Art AT exchange featuring works by Stephanie Andrews, Jenny E. Balisle, Sharmi Basu, Erik Contreras, Marlys Mandaville, Avital Meshi, and Parul Wadhwa, curated by me.
Update 1 on IMPACT ART AT:
Impact Art AT is a month-long, online creative exchange that utilizes community-driven digital and new media art projects to explore and address the social challenge, “In Search of Truth.” Using feminist hacking strategies as a methodological entry point, participants will work with Patrícia J. Reis to unravel and augment the way we perceive truth.
Impact Art AT (2021) is a public diplomacy initiative designed and implemented by ZERO1 and the Open Austria Art + Tech Lab, funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport, and produced in partnership with Ars Electronica.
Very proud to be part of the POM:: Politics of the Machine Berlin 2021 as the track chair of Interferences of Multitude. Follow us on Zoom – Room B from 11h to 13h — 15,16, and 17 September 2021
Artist lecture at ARS ELECTRONICA in the framework of the program Impact Art.
Calling all Bay Area creatives (and the creatively curious)! The participant open call deadline for Impact Art AT is TOMORROW. Learn from and work with artist Patrícia J. Reis (@patricia.joao.reis) in a series of virtual workshops and project development sessions to unravel and augment the way we perceive truth through the lens of feminist hacking strategies.
Read the open call and access the application: https://zero1.org/engage/open-calls/ (link in bio)
Application deadline: August 26, 2021 at 11:59 PM PDT
The exhibition will be open for visitors between 31.07 and 20.08.2021 by appointment: patricia.reis@mzbaltazarslaboratory.org
*** “The Medusa v. The Odalisque” – B.S. Latrodectus Mactans Productions. Uncredited cast; zone-plating laser holography by James O. Incadenza and Urquhart Ogilvie, Jr.; holographic fight choreography by Kenjiru Hirota courtesy of Sony Entertainment-Asia; 78 mm; 29 minutes; black and white; silent w/ audience-noises appropriated from network broadcast television. Mobile holograms of two visually lethal mythologic females duel with reflective surfaces onstage while a live crowd of spectators turn to stone. LIMITED CELLULOID RUN; PRIVATELY RE-RELEASED ON MAGNETIC VIDEO BY LATRODECTUS MACTANS PRODUCTIONS
Culture and technology: cognition and the common
Peter Hanenberg < UCP Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Christian Nold < Softhook
Patrícia J. Reis < UAK (Viena, Áustria) / KL (Linz, Áustria) Soundscape
Simon James Philips Moderation
Marta Jecu e Mário Caeiro
The event series Sharing and Responding is a cooperation between the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Kunsthalle Wien
Patrícia J. Reis, Stefanie Wuschitz — Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory
Our feminist hackerspace — Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory — allows for the luxury of time shared within its female* members, quality time to consider non-intuitive complexities and their impact on our personal lives. As an alternative to the (up until now) not conquered utopian dream of a non-binary cyberspace, we offer a safer physical space in which we do not have to consume, do not have to deliver and do not have to make sense of the complexity of things right away. It allows for a liberated feminist hacking practice and to speculate about future realities that can be shaped in (cyber)space.
About the symposium
Even if hardly ever described in such terms anymore, cybernetic feedback systems and their logic are ubiquitous today. The idea that, alongside flight paths and temperatures, social interactions and all kinds of decision-making processes can be regulated by now stands beyond question. With a program structured by the horizontal interconnectedness of various keywords, the symposium Sharing and Responding is dedicated to this condition, while simultaneously reflecting the inevitability of cybernetic reciprocity and interference.
Central to the four thematic blocks under discussion is the question of how regulatory structures are appropriated today—not least by those who are not enriching themselves through them. The program begins with the idea of anticipatory control that is at the heart of cybernetics (future/fiction/scenario), moving on to an exploration of the relationship of complex systems to individualized feedback (guilt/debt/responsibility) and ideas of self-management and labor (behavior planning/self-optimization/employment) before concluding with a look into the kinds of outcomes that can be generated from self-regulating networks (autofiction/desire/conspiracy theories).
The Sharing and Responding symposium is the second instalment of a series of events of the same title, and follows an online workshop in June 2020 with Amy Lien, Enzo Camacho, and the Zurich-based group The Field. The series examines cybernetic structures in language and art, planning, and surveillance. It thus picks up on the thematic framework of a two-semester seminar series that is part of the Master in Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, as well as on the exhibition Cybernetics of the Poor, curated by Diedrich Diederichsen and Oier Etxeberria.
Concept: Ana de Almeida, Anke Dyes, Nina Kerschbaumer, and Inka Meißner
With contributions from: Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory, Rachal Bradley, Carolin Brendel, Coleman Collins, Ana de Almeida, Diedrich Diederichsen, Anke Dyes, Oier Etxeberria, Julia Grillmayr, Johan Hartle, Peter Hermans, Ute Kalender and Aljoscha Weskott, Nina Kerschbaumer, Leigh Claire La Berge, Yulia Lokshina and Samuel Fischer-Glaser, Doreen Mende, Sighard Neckel, Axel Stockburger, Lia Sudermann, and Christian Wimplinger
Esta ano letivo, temos os primeiros licenciados a sair para o mercado com o renovado plano de estudos da Licenciatura de Design de Comunicação e nada melhor do que lhes transmitir o quanto o mundo é DINÂMICO!
Por isso os nossos convidados deste semestre são criativos portugueses que têm uma carreira nacional e internacional (IN and OUT), e vêm partilhar as suas experiências e desafiar os nosso alunos!
O CLUBE DE CRIATIVOS DE PORTUGAL, juntou-se à nossa iniciativa porque também eles têm sido “agentes” pela transformação do papel dos criativos em Portugal, pela valorização/premiado as diferentes atividades e têm apoiado jovens criativos a dar os primeiros passos.
Esta edição, ao contrário das anteriores, terá a primeira parte com os nossos convidados aberta ao público, sendo os mini challenges reservados aos nossos!
Join our kick-off Interactive Workshop: Exploring Critical Making on 25th March 2021! We will host a conversation with experts of experimental research approaches and makers on how they are using new, different, hands-on research methods to shape the maker community in a more inclusive. Our Webinar will be host on our partner’s social media.
This session will focus on learning from practitioners of the three main topics of this consortium: gender, youth, and openness in maker communities. We will hear about their projects, what their solution is to which problem, what methods and strategies they use to engage with their communities, etc.
Speakers:
Jenny Molloy – founder of the Open Bioeconomy Lab – will share her work on open hardware
Irene Agrivina, the founder of HONF, an Indonesian media art collective that also engages in education.
Mathilde Berchon from FuturFab – will share her work on gender
Stefanie Wuschitz and Patricia Reis – from Mz Baltazar’s Lab – will present gender equality approaches in making.
Happy to have been mentioned on Cornelia’s Solfrank lecture about creating commons!
13.03.2021
Variations of Gender and Technology Trouble
by Cornelia Sollfrank
Technofeminism is based on two basic assumptions: 1) technology is not neutral and 2) technology is a highly gendered field. These presuppositions open up a field of questions, problems and related practices. Based on selected positions in theory and practice, the talk exemplifies some of the tensions and openings from which to rethink ways of encountering the current technopolitical crisis. Commoning here serves as a framework for the process of vision and implementation, of experimentation and evaluation, of responding to the contemporary condition by creating new forms, formats and formations and questioning them again.
SOS stands for Salon of Open Secrets*. Now what does that mean?
What are Open Secrets? The elephants in the room? Gossip? Publicly censored and stigmatised topics? Everything at the same time, but not exclusively. We define Open Secrets as a very situated niche of embodied experiences, know-hows and fun – of being female*, of bending binaries with/through/in art, technologies, engineering and materials science and of connecting to each other in the most unexpected and life-assuring ways.
SOS is a virtual reenactment of our cozy hackerspace studio/gallery. It is a place, a conversation, happening and relationship. Our Salon wants to reconnect to all of you out there making and creating, succeeding and failing to do things and to think with things. With those who manage to stay fascinated with the promise that technologies always held: to create a better and more liveable future for all.
*Format: Each month, we will be holding an open online conversation with an artist, feminist, hacker, maker, scientist on the existing challenges and their solutions – weaving an interconnected web of materials, components, ecologies, economies, labor, hardware, geographies, ethics and politics of becoming in our more than human world.
Opening hours:
Core times: Tuesday – Friday, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. and by appointment. Closed on public holidays. Registration by phone: + 43-316-836 000; Registration by email: esc_at_mur.at
“A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.” [Donna Haraway, „A Cyborg Manifesto“, 1985]
The term ‘cyborg’, short for Cybernetic Organism, first appeared in 1960 as part of a NASA project whose goal was the “conquest” of space. In 1985 Donna Haraway took up this militaristic, techno-humanistic figure in order to formulate a socialist feminist manifesto in which she particularly emphasises the ambiguous nature of the cyborg and a necessary overcoming of dualisms such as human/machine, female/male, etc., which in her view form the foundation of power relations. In the movement from an organic, industrial society to a polymorphous information system, knowledge, technical processes and also humans and other organisms are being disassembled into information units that are subject to a theory of language and control. Everything is rendered codable, everything becomes predictable. What, as Frieder Nake asks, has happened to our right to be unpredictable?
Code yourself. Basics im Programmieren: Arduino Introduction: programming and electronic introduction for the creation of interactive artworks
by Patrícia J. Reis — Mz* Baltazar’s Lab
FH St. Pölten
Matthias Corvinus-Straße 15
A-3100 St. Pölten, Austria
MIET – Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece, Thessaloniki
Villa Kapantzi, Leof. Vasilissis Olgas 108, Thessaloniki, Greece
29.11.2019 – 26.01.2020
Curated by Sophia Panteliadou
About:
The word KAIROS in greek language might refer to natural phenomena (weather), however, it also might refer to temporality (time). The ambiguosity inherent to this word is the main subject of this exhibition.
KAIROS, Recall of earth, is a cross-media exhibition discussing the relationship between humankind and the phenomena of natural events. It addresses to the diversity of possible entanglements between humans and nature.
What is the relationship of an aesthetic experience in everyday life in terms of experiences in art? What is the relationship between art and weather phenomena and the metaphorical language in the arts?
Is “weather” a phenomenon that has the potential to show people their limits? Or does the horizon create unlimited possibilities in art through this medium?
With the participating artists:
IRINI ATHANASSAKIS (AUT/GR/FR), MIRIAM BAJTALA (SVK/AUT), ELECTROS (GR/USA), GUNDI FEYRER (GER/AUT), THOMAS GLÄNZEL (AUT), MARIA HUBINGER (AUT), ANNI KALTSIDOU (GR), MATHIAS KESSLER (AUT/USA), PANOS KOKKINIAS (GR), OLIVER KOWACZ (AUT), PETER KUBELKA (AUT), ALFRED LENZ (AUT), BRIGITTE MAHLKNECHT (IT/AUT), SABINE MÜLLER-FUNK (GER/AUT), EVA PETRIC (SVN/AUT/USA), PRINZpod (AUT), PATRÍCIA J. REIS (PT/AUT), RUTH SCHNELL (AUT), CHRISTIAN K. SCHRÖDER (AUT), HELMUT SWOBODA (AUT), MATHIAS SWOBODA (AUT), THEMOS VAFIAS (GR), LETIZIA WERTH (IT/AUT). MANUEL CYRILL BACHINGER, CAGDAS CECEN, ANNA WATZINGER, LAURUS EDELBACHER, RUTH ZIMMERMANN.
Address: World Wildlife Fund ZURICH Hohlstrasse 110, Second Floor, 8010 Zürich.
Featuring:
Professor Dr Hanna Kokko (Evolutionary Biologist, University of Zurich) and Dr. Patrícia J Reis (Media Artist)
TOGETHER THIS SCIENTIST AND ARTIST PRESENT AND CREATE A VERY LIVELY DISCUSSION ABOUT THE RELATIONAL ASPECTS OF THESE TOPICS
Why did sexual reproduction and different sexes evolve? What diversity of sexual reproduction do we see in nature and how is evolution being affected by the technical world humans have created? How stable are boundaries between the sexes in animals, and why are we any different? Does gender matter?
This special LASER talks features presentations by Professor Dr Hanna Kokko (Evolutionary Biologist, University of Zurich) and Dr. Patricia J Reis (Senior Lecturer Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria). After the talks there will be an interesting discussion lead by Dr. Jasmin Winkler (Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich) and Prof Dr. Jill Scott ( Professor Emerata Cultural Studies, ZHdK)
Professor Dr Hanna Kokko Most of us have heard one or another version of an argument that deviations from traditional gender roles are ‘unnatural’. Producers of such arguments have probably not spent very much time observing the astonishing diversity of ways that reproduction can be arranged in nature. There are sex changers, hermaphrodites, sperm cells that hijack eggs and kick out all the genetic material from the female (so that the offspring develops as a clone of the father), asexuals, hybrids, sexual cannibalism, offspring killing their mother for food, dwarf males permanently attached to the female… you name it. Sexual relations in nature are not always ‘nice’ – there can be vigorous disagreements of whether a mating should happen or not – but they are always fascinating.
Dr. Patricia J Reis Patrícia J. Reis will be discussing the topic of technology and interactivity as an artistic strategy to create and amplify haptic, sensual and erotic experiences. In that framework she will present her project Untherneath the skin another skin (2016), an interactive installation composed by a series of objects represented at a human scale. The objects encloses audio-visual-tactile feedback and are offered to the viewer as an organic genderless body. The artist invites the audience to physical embrace it, at the same time having to perform unusual body positions that might suggest a certain eroticism. The sensuous and erotic connotation is emphasized by the embedded vibration motors, that in turn, confer them an alive dynamic facet. The presentation based on her work will speculate on future machines that might offer an evolutionary replacement for human skin contact and new possibilities for human-object satisfaction.
A project by the Department of Digital Arts organized in the context of Biennale Sessions – Special Programme for Higher Education Institutions at La Biennale di Venezia’s 58th International Art Exhibition
Date: Fri, 4 October 2019, 2 – 5 pm
Venue: Sale d‘Armi G, Arsenale, 30122 Venice
Participants: Manuel Cyrill Bachinger, Çağdaş Çeçen, Johannes Lampert, Anna Watzinger and Laurus Edelbacher, Ruth Zimmermann
Concept and organization: Ruth Schnell, Patrícia J. Reis
Collaborators: Sophia Panteliadou [Philosopher, independent curator], Rainer Kaltenberger [Meteorologist, ZAMG – the National Meteorological Service of Austria, Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics of Austria]
Opening: Friday, July 26, 2019, from 5 pm
Exhibition: July – September
Stiftsteiche, 4490 St. Florian
With:
Catrin Bolt
Anita Fox
Markus Hiesleitner
Daniela Krajčová
Nicole Krenn
David Leitner
Klara Paterok
Patricia J. Reis
Franz Tišek
Lukas Walcher
Curator: Lenka Kurková
The Kulturdrogerie an artist-run-space in the 18th district in Vienna, would like to relocate the idea of living “social sculpture” over the summer months to the countryside in St. Florian. The Flora Pondtemporary project at the St. Florian peninsular makes it possible to temporarily compensate for the contrasts between city and countryside, space and density, tradition and trend.
The publicly accessible Arial of the St. Florian peninsular in the center offers the space for the Flora Pondtemporary project. The two-hectare fishpond plant of the St. Florian Abbey enables the work in nature and with nature, as well as a test room and an open-air studio for the curator and the artists.
In addition to new site-related work on the fishpond, works created by the Kulturdrogerie in Vienna will also be presented to Flora Pondtemporary.
The project opens from the beginning to the outside and welcomes audiences at any time to ensure a lively exchange between the artists and interested visitors. The works, which are realized during the project, are exhibited permanently on the site and form a local art collection in St. Florian, which is intended to stimulate discussion.
Politics of the Machines: Art / Conflict POM Beirut 2019
The 2nd POM Conference
The International University of Beirut, June 11-14, 2019
10.Track: Body-politics of the machines: Troubles WITH/IN/OUT art, body, perception, politics, and technology
Track chair Ingrid Cogne, Patrícia J. Reis
Within the cross-disciplinary research field art – science – technology, it has been widely remarked how the proliferation of new technologies affects human and non-human bodies in multiple ways—including perceptually, intellectually, culturally, socially, environmentally, ecologically, ethically, and politically.
Evidence can be found for example in the ways in which humans have been adjusting their bodies and behaviors to automatic workflows or in the development of genetic engineering to modify species that can cope with the current standards of living.
The rapid advance of artificial intelligence, artificial emotion, human-robotics interfaces, and genetics, points to the idea of expanding the body to a facilitated and re-empowered artificial existence. Technologies of emersion—such as VR, AR, and brain interfaces—promise the alienation of reality and call for the transcendence of the body and immaterial existence. Both scenarios persist on thinking future technology in an anthropocentric way and call for the necessity of rethinking the body.
Body-politics of the machines aims at re-creating a space wherein troublematic relationship with/in/out art, body, perception, politics, and technology can be articulated and inviting papers and artistic research projects that observe, question or speculate on aesthetics, im/materiality, and politics of future techno-body scenarios.
The tracked topics include – and are not limited to:
Situating troubles: Intersectionality and bodily relationalities.
Machines and automatic systems of demystification.
Machines as bodies and bodies as machines.
Innovative interfaces of body affection and sensorial adjustment.
Relational interfaces – between the self, one’s body, and the body of spectators.
Thinking the body: emancipation strategies and speculative methodologies.
Power of machines in periods of conflict: VR, AR systems and other immersion technologies aligned with body and politics.
Disembodiment, obliteration, and technological development.
Patrícia J. Reis & Lukas Vincent Walcher
opening May 29th 7 pm
29.5 – 20.6.2019
Through the hole is the way ‘Out-of-This-World’ is a site-specific interactive installation presented by media artists Patricia J. Reis in collaboration with Lukas Vincent Walcher in the open-air segment of the experimental station Kulturdrogerie in the 18th district of Vienna, Währing and is on view from 29th of May till 20th of June 2019. The work explores the concepts of temporality, communication and translation in heterotopias – culturally, institutionally and discursively ‘othered’ spaces, inviting the interactors to have an embodied experience of the movement of a flag in the sky that can be observed underneath a temporary pavilion.
The visual and physical information of an object’s movement — the oscillation of the flag — is translated into sensorial and haptic codes that the interactor can physically receive through motion feedback, embedded in a sculptural object that serve as a seat, at the intersection of the public and private space.
Fundación Ludwig de Cuba, Calle 13 # 509 entre D y E, Vedado, Havana, Cuba
Artists: Thomas Hochwallner, Nicolaj Kirisits, Martin Kusch / fitness pluriel, Bobby Malhotra, David Osthoff, Patrícia Reis, Ruth Schnell, Franz Schubert
The department DIGITAL ART / Ruth Schnell at the invitation of the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba between 12.04. and 28.04.2019 eight current artistic positions on the occasion of the XIII Bienal de La Habana.
DIGITALE KUNST continues the series #fuckreality with the exhibition on the premises of the Ludwigstiftung in Havana, which began very successfully in the fall of 2018 in the Kunstraum Lower Austria (curators Kunstraum NOE: Martin Kusch, Alexandra Schantl, Ruth Schnell).
With the works of Thomas Hochwallner, Nicolaj Kirisits, Martin Kusch / fitness pluriel, Bobby Malhotra, David Osthoff, Patrícia Reis, Ruth Schnell and Franz Schubert, DIGITAL ART presents artistic positions on the construction of reality at the interface of real and virtual space in the center.
The works shown in the cooperation are the result of artistic-researching, experimental productions in the labs for immersion, sound and electronics. With three workshops (360 ° sound and video, 3D scanning and Arduino introduction), the department presents the work of these labs during the exhibition. In addition to the transfer of knowledge, an exchange about methods of immersive artistic practices should be stimulated.
From April 12 to May 12, 2019, the Biennale in Havana will be presenting over 200 national and international artistic positions under the theme “Construction of the Possible”.
WORKSHOP Hackerspaces cultures: Speculations on bioenergy towards an alternative desired future
25.05.2018 | 15-17h
Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria
[Make… cooperative futures: Power, Access, Mapping, Alternative Fictions
Symposium der Abteilung Mediengestaltung]
How do we imagine a sustainable desired global future? What means being individually happy and satisfied? What should we believe in, when we are constantly loaded with new digital data and information? And what should we wish for? Can technology be an asset to project our future visions? Which open tools do we have access to empower our wishes?
This workshop aims to use these questions as a motif for the analysis of science fiction imaginary, and with that, invite participants to work together and bring their critical thoughts for the creation of a mystic machine powered by crystal energy and potato batteries.
The Ph.d students have worked in teams with a particular focus on using the technologies of mapping, monitoring and sensory experiences in their research into hybrid state(s) of the body. The result is two installatory presentations operating as hybrids in-between art installations and prototypes, which are developed to test the status of technological devices and tools in an investigation of ‘future pleasure objects’.
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SOS 2.0_ FÜRSORGE IST DIE SCHWESTER DER AUTONOMIE VON MZ* BALTAZAR’S LAB IN DER MEDIENWERKSTATT WIEN
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Solo Show in collaboration with Carla Cabanas “From object to affect: proposals for future archives after the media” at Criatech 2021, Aveiro, Portugal.
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