Feminist Hardware Festival Event

16TH OF MAY – 14TH OF JUNE 2022
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory, AIL - Angewandte Innovation Lab

Queer, non-binary and female-identified media artists come together to rethink the notion of hardware from a feminist perspective.

They extend the ethics of feminist hacking to ecological circuits. By using decentralized, fair-traded, modular, renewable, non-toxic materials they speculate upon future alternative technologies: they create hardware made from water, air, bubbles, waste, body liquids, microbes, glass, soil or plants.

We proudly present a diverse selection of local and international artists who generate empathic, eco-sentient and anti-racist soft/hardware. They investigate the use of organic, biodegradable, microbial matter for creating ethical technology that helps to unpack the late capitalist industrial complexity of the high-tech.

Building their artistic circuits the artists are learning from biocultural, reciprocal restoration, feminist data science and environmental movements. By doing so, they prototype models of generative and subsistent commons with human and non-humans agents.

Through workshops, talks, performances and exhibitions we will debate artistic, anti-colonial alternatives to sexist, toxic and extractivist commodity chains. This way we propose the term feminist hardware as a vehicle to diffract gender equality with sustainable and healing ecologies.

Participating artists
Ce Quimera & Gaia Leandra / Wetlab / CAT
Giulia Tomasello / IT
Irene Agrivine / HONF / ID
Ioana Vreme Moser / DE
Marcela Suárez / US
Mary Maggic / US / AT
Mirjana Mitrović /MX / DE

PROGRAM

ARTIST TALK
Electronic Pirouettes: sound as movement in circuitry
by Ioana Vreme Moser
16th of May, 18h-20h
Location: Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Sitzungssaal Erdgeschoss
(https://meet.jit.si/fhf)

EXHIBITION
Pink. Glitter. Violence.
by Mirjana Mitrović
18th of May, 18h
at Mz* Baltzar’s Lab, Jägerstraße 52-54, Vienna

LECTURE
Digital Violence as Affective Disciplining after Feminist Protests
by Marcela Suárez & Mirjana Mitrović
18th of May, 19h
(https://meet.jit.si/fhf)

WORKSHOP
Sizzling Semiconductors
by Ioana Vreme Moser
19th of May, 17-20h
at Mz* Baltzar’s Lab, Jägerstraße 52-54, Vienna (REGISTRATION LINK)

EXHIBITION
Louisa speaks: Intimate dialogues on language, technology and biohacking
by Giulia Tomasello
curated by Arianna Forte
27th of May, 19h
at Mz* Baltazar’s Lab, Jägerstraße 52-54, Vienna

ARTIST TALK
The Wetness of Hacking: A Transhacking feminist perspectives
from Wetlab Barcelona
by Gaia Leandra and Ce Quimera (Wetlab)
Moderation by Patricia J. Reis and Stefanie Wuschitz
30th of May, 19h
At AIL Angewandte Innovation Lab, Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Wien

WORKSHOP
Coded biophilia by Giulia Tomasello
31st of May, 16h-19h
Mz* Baltazar’s Lab, Jägerstraße 52-54

WORKSHOP
Bioxeno Workshop
by Gaia Leandra and Ce Quimera
1st of June, 16h – 19h
Mz* Baltazar’s Lab , Jägerstraße 52-54

PERFORMANCE
MOLECULAR QUEERING AGENCY by Mary Maggic
8th of June, 16h
Workshop and performance
At Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory, Jägerstraße 52-54, Vienna

WORKSHOP
ECO PRINT ON BIO LEATHER
by Irene Agrivine
13h of June, 17h-20h,
At Mz* Baltazar’s Lab, Jägerstraße 52-54, Vienna

ARTIST TALK
by Irene Agrivine
14th of June, 17h,
Lecture/artist talk, hybrid
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Sitzungssaal Erdgeschoss
(https://meet.jit.si/fhf)