estragon @estragon@post.lurk.org

Feditation by Lídia Pereira https://tube.4aem.com/videos/watch/21919523-e30c-47c9-8257-5af9093ea54a

Our peertube instance is up and running now. Turns out our apache configuration was not the issue, but the database extensions and ownership.
We can move to a more creative path now, such as finding a name for our instance, curating content, styling the interface, etc.
byte-tube looks like the most favorite, though it is taken by this channel
https://www.twitch.tv/bytetube

hmm.. is that a problem? they are quite nice also.

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Feminist Hack Meetings #3
Feminist Futurotopixs
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At Varia + online  
Saturday 06/11/2021  
11:00-13:00 CEST

#Spideralex will introduce us to Feminist #Futurotopixs. This workshop will enable participants to dream, invent and desire together feminist #technologies. They will invent narratives, speculative fiction and radical imaginaries that work as alternatives to existing oppressive or dystopian models. The workshop is oriented at co-designing stories and creating new worlds as processes to imagine and #dream together about feminist desired futures.   

More info: 
https://vvvvvvaria.org/en/fhm-3.html   
https://adanewmedia.org/author/spideralex/
https://zoiahorn.anarchaserver.org/specfic/

To register send to: estragonius@protonmail.com

F(eminist)H(ack)M(eetings), organised by Artemis, Angeliki and Julia, are a series of research meetings and workshops that explore the potentialities and imaginaries of feminist technological collectives. These gatherings aim to challenge who counts as a hacker, and what counts as hacking. More: fhm.varia.zone

/This event is made possible with the kind support of the Creative 
Industries Fund NL/  

*Varia's newsletter:* 
https://we.lurk.org/postorius/lists/varia.we.lurk.org/

@estragon #varia #fhm #femimist #hack #meetings #speculativefiction

I spoke to artist Joana Moll about her new piece for the Media Wall at The Photographers' Gallery last week.

We discussed microprocessors, their impact on the environment and the role of artists and the art world in the transition to a less polluting society.

You can read our conversation at Unthinking photography:

https://unthinking.photography/articles/interview-with-joana-moll

#sustainability #art #photography

I'm experimenting with a browser plugin to change gendered pronouns to gender neutral, (part of my research in online governance, a cohort organized by columbia boulder college of media).

Inspiration comes from own and other feminist comrades, experiencing gender bias in FOSS communities.

https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2021/05/18/excavations-governance-archaeology-future-internet

#foss #feminism

Today at 15:30 CET I will participate in a conversation together with Caroline Sinders around societal issues and bias in technology referring to feminist artistic strategies critically addressing them, as well as the proposals that our work from different angles offer as an alternative.

Maybe some of you are interested to tune in. 👾

stream: https://stream.waag.org/events/transformer-summit-artist-talk/

___FACT Liverpool, Transmediale Berlin and Waag Amsterdam are collaboratively launching the Transformer Summit after the Summer. The Summit will take place online, in Liverpool and Amsterdam next 23-26 September, as a series of conversations, discussions and workshops that look at arts-based practices that deal with the societal challenges of digital transformation___

Spotted some really nice zines by @manetta @alcstrt and other #xpub & #varia folks at #zinefest The collection of zines on display is amazing, from all over the world, from screen and riso to xeroxed publications.

17 - 26 September in Groningen!

https://sign2.nl/events/spread-zinefest-2/

Zineing with (F)eminist (H)ack (M)eetings @SPREAD Zinefest (at Sign Gallery at Groningen), with lots of scanning, printing, binding, patching, folding, annotating, re-reading, messing.

It was amazing to see such a rich zine collection made by the hosts of SPREAD from feminist, artist zine makers from far away.

Thanks all the zine contributors who send their feminist zines and participants of the workshop.

Check out the FemLib with links from the publications of the contributors in the wiki fhm.varia.zone :)

With @estragon and Julia
#fhm #sign #spread #femlib #zines #wiki

Is anyone no longer using their #raspberry 3.5 anymore? The #opendesigncourse for refugees and asylum seekers is interested in donations! DM me!
https://opendesigncourse.be/

Boosts are appreciated..

Redraft, because toot was follow only - now

Being part of a social event after more than a 1+1/2 years.
#zines #artbooks #mastoart

So many humans

Read & Repair - Digital Solidarity feat. Jara Rocha and Yoana Buzova

Sunday, 26th September 2021
11:00-13:00 Read with Jara Rocha
13:30-15:30 Repair with Yoana Buzova
IRL in #varia

READ
Of all the greyzones of our readwrite worldings, bibliographic self-defence constitutes a specially powerful one. Self-defence, resistance, counter-weighting and mutual support operations of immense technopolitical value keep taking place at what can be termed "peripheral literature areas" such as bibliographies, footnotes, indexes, acknowledgement pages, colophons, library metadata and side annotations, where trans*feminist, anticolonial, antiracist, queer, crip, antispeciest, antifa and atiageist solidarities take very tangible and specific forms.

REPAIR
The devices we surround ourselves with are an increasingly complex and extremely heterogeneous matter. In a short workshop we will investigate the materiality and inevitable politics of electronic components. We will take an interdisciplinary approach to dissect specific objects in terms of their material, socio-cultural and ecological dimension.

In this process we will dismantle and dissect components to their very building blocks, investigating components from the Electronica Depot.

More info: http://varia.zone/en/rr-digital-solidarity-2.html

Poster by @p_p

About the wildfires here in Greece. It is frustrating and sad to read accounts of survivors pointing out that no firefighters were there to help. The state sent evacuation messages too early, in fear of being accused of inflicting deaths. They also didn't allow fire trucks to enter forest paths for the same reason. We had fires that lasted more than a week.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/08/i-will-see-the-ghosts-of-the-dead-forest-for-a-long-time-returning-to-evia-after-the-wildfires

Another little generator project. This is a tool made for the art event Lesbiennale (https://lesbiennale.art), aimed at the organisation team so that they can create pictures for their social network accounts by playing with the automated layout of the tool. Then PNG files are generated and can be downloaded.

#graphicdesign #webtoprint
#generativedesign

Print-making gets messy, stressful but also fun! We are sending new geeky stuff to spreadzine festival in Groningen NL. Exhibition at sign project space 17 - 26 September.
https://sign2.nl/events/spread-zinefest-2/​

Your feminist zine to SPREAD Zinefest!

F(eminist)H(ack)M(eetings) invites you to send zines to the presentation library, “Zinedisplayer”, of the SPREAD Zinefestival until the 11th of September. In this year's SPREAD Zinefest, FHM will organise a workshop on zine making and invite zines from different networks to be displayed in the festival and join a feminist library that will be an inspiration reference for the workshop. We invite you to contribute with your zine(s) themed around feminism in relation to L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ issues, hacking, biohacking, technology, art, food, caring, networks, tools, infrastructures etc. The delivery costs and the price of the zine will be covered.

If you wish to participate send us an email to estragonius@protonmail.com
more: https://fhm.varia.zone/

SPREAD Zinefest (http://www.spreadzinefest.nl/) is a festival focusing on self published art and prints, including a library, a zinemarket, workshops, lectures, petanque and network moments in a splendid setting!

FHM are a series of research meetings and workshops that are initiated by Varia (https://vvvvvvaria.org/) in Rotterdam. They explore the potentialities and imaginaries of feminist technological collectives. These gatherings aim to challenge who counts as a hacker, and what counts as hacking(...)

@estragon #FHM #feminist #zine #call