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<small><font size="+3"><small><b><span class="Internet-Link
CharOverride-1">Feminist Server Gettogether Exchange
Meeting</span></b></small></font></small><small><font
size="+3"><small><b><span class="Internet-Link CharOverride-1">,
ZERSTÖREN<br>
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</span></b></small></font></small>Sehr geehrte Damen und
Herren! <br>
<br>
Wir laden Sie sehr herzlich zur Veranstaltung <em>Feminist Server
Gettogether Exchange Meeting </em>am 8.November um 18.00 Uhr ins
<b>esc</b> medien kunst labor ein. <br>
<br>
Wir freuen uns auf Ihren Besuch!<br>
Reni Hofmüller und Ilse Weber<small><small><big><br>
</big></small></small><br>
<p><em>Alle Dinge können anders gedacht werden.</em> <span
style="font-size:9px;">Luce Irigaray</span><br>
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Beim <em>Feminist Server Gettogether Exchange Meeting</em>, das
im Rahmen des Projektes <em>ZERSTÖREN</em> im esc medien kunst
labor stattfindet, werden HackerInnen Entwicklungen rund um
Server-Infrastrukturen und deren Nutzung und Veränderbarkeit
erörtern.<br>
In einem informellen Setting präsentieren <em>Anne Goldenberg,
Ellen Foster, Femke Snelting, Ushi Reiter</em> und Künstlerinnen
des Projektes <em>ZERSTÖREN</em> ihre Ansätze im Umgang mit
Technologie und diskutieren alte und neue Strategien der täglichen
Nutzung des Internets.<br>
<br>
Meeting in englischer Sprache.<br>
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<p>Anne Goldenberg:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">DESTROY /
CONSTELLATE</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">To <b>destroy</b>
refers to an action to anhilate, to make something disappear, to
bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or
usefulness of something seen as undesirable.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">To <b>constellate</b>
is a practice that allows us to make sense, to allign ourselves
(Estela López Solís), or eventually to add stars in a sky already
deprived of light (Adrienne Maree Brown, citing Martin Luther
King)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">A <b>constellation</b>
is an ensemble of stars whose appearance from a specific/situated
position make them look visibily close enough that civilisations
draw links between them, creating meaningful shapes.</p>
<p>A gendered socialisation has associated virility with expertise
of destruction and feminity with skills for caring, healing and
reconstructing.</p>
<p>Feminist epistemologies have often use deconstructive approaches
in order to critic and dismantle the long lasting patterns of
power and domination dynamics between genders (machism), but also
toward ecosystems (specism). In this mindset, technologies are
seens as an extension of dominitation or exploitation, and a
result of logical systematic rational efforts. In 1991, in her
feminist, antispecist and socialist cyborg manifesto, Donna
Haraway proposed the reunion, or more so a recogintion of the
fallacy, of those long-standing artificial divisions. If they are
united, always already as entwined relations, if there is no war
here, what is left for feminism to destroy / deconstruct / unbuild
? Is destruction a virile attribute ? Can feminism be officialy
rageous ? And happily killing, opening, destroying unwanted
structures, imposed joyfulness (Sara Ahmed) and unclosed toys
(Nancy Mauro Flude, 2008). Or is it in particular, exploitative
patterns that feminism aims to destroy, in order to rebuild
revolutionary structures and other forms of collective beings?
From a tactical perspective, Octavia Butler has powerfully
depicted this battle between healing vs destroying practices
within a patriarcial exploitative structure (Wild Seed) : feminist
thought would need to bear some oppressive structures in order to
navigate, transform and create new strengths. In order to bring
circularity in this process, I'd like to referee to a buddhist or
dharma art perspective (Trungpa), where destruction is seen as the
last of the 4 kharmic actions (pacifying / enriching / magnetising
/ destroying)... Destruction becomes the last stage of what
resists to the other ones.</p>
<p>If we look at destruction and constellation as circular
practices, what guides us to choose what to destroy, create,
magnetise, constellate ?</p>
<p>How does contemporary technofeminism enact the destruction of
oppressive patterns, while generating a constellation of hopes,
solidarities and intersiticial practices, in order to dance
forward to a desirable future ?</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><b>Destroy |
Constellate</b> aims at deepening the practices of destruction
and the art of constellating from a decolonial, healing, and
technofeminist perspective<br>
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<br>
A Feminist Server: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://esc.mur.at/de/node/1234">http://esc.mur.at/de/node/1234</a><br>
Are you being served? <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://vj14.constantvzw.org/">http://vj14.constantvzw.org/</a><br>
Destroy - Constellate: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://antonieta.vedetas.org/p/a_possible_constellation">https://antonieta.vedetas.org/p/a_possible_constellation</a></p>
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<small><small><big><br>
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</big></small></small><small><font size="+3"><small><b><span
class="Internet-Link CharOverride-1">ZERSTÖREN<br>
</span></b></small></font></small><br>
<small><font size="+3"><small><b><span class="Internet-Link
CharOverride-1"><small><small><big><img alt="Film burn
texture (c) Dustin Schmieding, unterlegt mit dem
Emblem der Haager Konvention von 1954 zur
Kennzeichnung von geschütztem Kulturgut"
src="cid:part6.4A116276.588D3751@esc.mur.at"
height="220" width="220"><br>
<br>
</big></small></small> </span></b></small></font></small><i>Die
sozialen Errungenschaften, die gesellschaftlichen Werte und
demokratischen Praktiken, die persönlichen Freiheiten und
Freiräume, die der Etablierung eines internationalen Absatzmarktes
zum Opfer fielen bzw. freiwillig geopfert wurden und werden, sind
Ausgangspunkt dieses Projektes.</i><br>
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<p class="Standard ParaOverride-1" lang="zh-CN"><span
class="Internet-Link CharOverride-5" lang="en-US">Erfahren Sie
mehr über das Projekt -> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://esc.mur.at/de/projekt/zerstoeren"><b>ZERSTÖREN</b></a></span><font
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lang="en-US"><br>
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<font size="+1"> </font><small> </small>Mit CN:FM (GB), /etc –
Eclectic Tech Carnival, FemHack (CA), GreenNet (GB), k² (AT),
L‘Erse (CA), maschen (AT), Miss Despoinas (TAS), Mz* Baltazar‘s
Laboratory (AT), THF – Transhackfeminist Meeting<small><br>
</small><br>
<small><font size="+3"><small><b><span class="Internet-Link
CharOverride-1"> </span></b></small></font></small> <font
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lang="en-US"></span></font><font size="-1"><span
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lang="en-US"></span></font><font size="-1"><span
class="Internet-Link CharOverride-5" lang="en-US"><b><b><span
class="Internet-Link CharOverride-6" lang="en-US">Dauer
der Ausstellung: 25.9. - 18.11.2016</span></b></b></span><span
class="Internet-Link CharOverride-5" lang="en-US"><b><small><b><span
class="Internet-Link CharOverride-6" lang="en-US"></span></b></small></b></span></font><br>
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lang="en-US"><b>Öffnungszeiten 25.9.–16.10.2016</b>: Di–Fr,
11.00–19.00 Uhr, Sa–So 11.00–17.00 Uhr</span></font><font
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lang="en-US"></span></font><br>
<font size="-1"><span class="Internet-Link CharOverride-5"
lang="en-US"><b>Öffnungszeiten 18.10–18.11.2016</b>: Di–Fr,
14.00–19.00 Uhr und nach Vereinbarung, Eintritt frei</span></font><font
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lang="en-US"></span></font><br>
<font size="-1"><span class="Internet-Link CharOverride-5"
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class="Internet-Link CharOverride-5" lang="en-US"><b>Finissage</b>:
Fr, 18.11.2016, 18.00 Uhr<br>
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<small> </small> <font size="-1"><span class="Internet-Link
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Koproduktion von <b>esc </b>medien kunst labor mit
kunst@werk und steirischer herbst.</span> <b><br>
</b></span></font><font size="-1"><span class="Internet-Link
CharOverride-5" lang="en-US"><b>esc</b> medien kunst labor,
Bürgergasse 5, 8010 Graz, tel: +43 316 83 60 00, <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:esc@mur.at">esc@mur.at</a>,
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://esc.mur.at/">http://esc.mur.at/</a><br>
Gefördert von: Kulturamt der Stadt Graz, Kulturreferat des
Landes Steiermark, BKA Kunst<br>
Bildsujets: </span></font><font size="-1"><span
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size="-1"><span class="Internet-Link CharOverride-5"
lang="en-US">© esc medien kunst labor, ministry of hacking,
2014</span></font><font size="-1"><span class="Internet-Link
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</span></font> Film burn texture </span></font><font
size="-1"><span class="Internet-Link CharOverride-5" lang="en-US"><span
class="st">©</span> Dustin Schmieding, unterlegt mit dem
Emblem der Haager Konvention von 1954 zur Kennzeichnung von
geschütztem Kulturgut.</span></font>
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