The FemTech + Feminist Tech Exhibition brings together interdisciplinary artworks that critically engage with intimate health, data, and care from feminist and decolonial perspectives. Spanning media such as watercolor, cyanotype, wearable tech, AI, soft robotics, and sound, the exhibition puts FemTech (the industry’s term for technologies for the “female” body) and Feminist Tech (a feminist perspective of technology) in conversation with one another. The artworks collectivley explore themes of intimate health, the vaginal microbiome, fertility tracking, and menstrual care, alongside broader investigations into consent, climate crisis, synthetic voice, and data ethics. Emphasizing open science, embodied approaches to data, and invisible labor, the works interrogate extractive and dominant technologies while proposing alternative, relational modes of designing with and for the body and the ecologies around us.
More about the Climate Change Smart Speakers:
AI in smart devices is having a huge impact on the world’s energy consumption, which again is having a huge negative impact on climate change. How does AI feel about its role and pervasive influence on climate change? Is it possible for intelligent technology to influence its interluctor and make them more aware of issues such as pollution and climate change? What influence does the sound and speech of the smart devices have on its subject?
These are some of the questions that Climate Change Smart Speakers might help to answer. A probe study and part of the research project “Vocal Imaginaries”
Three probes were created, each with its own identity and features:
An activist for climate change, a robot and “The Voice of The Forest”
Program
17.00 Doors open, mingle with snacks and drinks
18.00 Drop in watercolor workshop with Ina Schuppe Koistinen
20.00 Performance by Kelsey Cotton
21.00 DJ Nome and Cafeciaojoe
22.00 Closing
With contributions from Ina Schuppe Koistinen; Cecilia Larrea (Casimira), Diana Mosquera, and Francisco Gallegos; Giulia Tomasello and ALMA Futura; Lakshmi Murthy; Helena Linder; Søren Lyngsø Knudsen, Kara Oehler, Claire Glanois, Pelin Karaturhan, and Jonas Fritsch; Karin Hansson; Anna Brynskov; Yann Seznec and Nadia Campo Woytuk; Madeline Balaam, Anna Ståhl, Lucca Geurts, Caroline Yan Zheng, and Deepika Yadav; Laia Turmo Vidal, Jan Maslik, Yoav Luft, and Alice Haynes; Anabella Aguilera; Andrea Botero; Eliana Sanchez Aldana, Alexandra Cuaran Jamioy, and Susana Chiqunque Agreda; Jaz Hee-jeong Choi; Lachlan Sleight; Markéta Dolejšová; Alejandra Gómez Ortega, Uǧur Genç, and Willem Van Der Maden; Jooyoung Park, Xuni Huang, and Marianela Ciolfi Felice.
This event is open to the general public. Everyone is welcome!
