What have you hacked to make it work for you and your community? Propositions of linear time? Assumptions about the correct amount of rest? Heteronormative assumptions on what constitutes kinship or family? A lack of imagination around how to share resources? This workshop is for you.
Join in to rehearse together trans*crip technoscientific technologies so that we can take up space in what is called "technology". Moving from a value based politic that seeks out joyful pasts, presents and futures for non-normative bodies and minds - following the development of a disability justice tech vein; together we will move with an expansive definition of technology that holds space for practices of community organizing, resource finding, and sharing, and techno-vernacular creativity ie. hacking stuff for our specific needs. Here we will prototype and index technologies that already exist, but might not yet be called technologies, towards make our lives plural, joyful, sustainable and full of connection and possibility. Outcomes of the workshop might be: adding a technology that you practice with but that is not yet recognized as a technology to the ongoing index, prototyping or making a technology in AR or VR that you cannot have physical access to due to migration/climate change/epistemicide or inventing your own index to hold with love your or your community's collection of technological artifacts.
Participation is possible with binding registration by May 19 via the following link.
The event will be held in English.
Participants should bring a laptop, phone, sketchbook and a physical or digital object that shape shifts to root their participation in the workshop.
The workshop will take place as part of the exhibition “Soft Spaces, Shared Grounds.”
Ren Loren Britton is a trans*disciplinary artist-designer reverberating with trans*feminism, technosciences, radical pedagogy and disability justice. The hir-story of cyberfeminism informs their focus on trans, as in, transgender and trans, as in, crossing contexts with feminist concerns. They are interested in how socio-technical systems make lives accessible and pleasurable