Presentation/ Workshop
INTRA-ACCION international Symposium
18.10. to 19.10.24
Barcelona, Spain+
Exhibition
S+T+ARTS Prize by Ars Electronica
29.7. to 3.8.24
Linz, AustriaNomination Prize 2024 S+T+ARTS Prize by Ars Electronica, project "Clay PCB: Eco-Feminist Decolonial Hardware”.
"Clay PCB: Eco-Feminist Decolonial Hardware" comprises two projects:
The Clay PCB: This microcontroller board is made exclusively from urban mined electronic components and features a base of wild local clay, consciously collected from the Austrian forest and fired in a bonfire. The project is entirely open source, with all tutorials and programs available for download on the project website.
The Ethical Hardware Kit: This artistic "survival kit" envisions a future where crucial resources for hardware production are alarmingly scarce. It includes a collection of tools, materials, and detailed instructions designed to empower feminist hacking practices, even in challenging times.
These speculative art and design projects aim to challenge conventional thinking, pushing us to explore innovative alternatives to the prevailing toxicity and exploitation associated with conflict materials essential to hardware manufacturing in a creative and artistic way. In doing so, we aim to transcend traditional boundaries and contribute to a more sustainable and ethical future for hardware production.
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Summer Hacking Camp
PIF Camp
Soča, Slovenia
29.7. to 3.8.24
Ethical Hardware Workshop at PIF
It is an open secret that the hardware in our smart devices contains not only plastics but also conflict minerals such as tungsten, tin, tantalum, silver, and gold. Hence, technology is not neutral. In this workshop, we investigate alternative hardware made from locally sourced materials, known as ethical hardware, to develop and speculate upon renewable practices for the benefit of both nature and humans.
During the workshop, we will make printed circuit boards with wild local clay, using recycled silver as the main electrical conductor. We will model the boards, paint the circuits, and fire them in an open bonfire at PIFcamp. Participants will solder all electronic components and test the circuit for an interactive microcontroller board that can control digital and analogue sensors as inputs and speakers, LEDs, and motors as outputs (similar to Arduino).
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Artist Lecture
Patrícia J. Reis: »Hacking the body as a black box«
11.03.2024, 19h30
Neue Wiener Gruppe/Lacan-Schule
Die Niederösterreich Vinothek
Piaristengasse 35, 1080 Wien
Beginning with the premise that we're living through a profound crisis of touch, dominated by the visual-centric nature of technology, in an era where technology seems to deflect further from human comprehension, it is urgent to find new strategies for touching, hacking and caring to repair our current relationship with machines.
Within my artistic practice, I delve into human perceptual experiences born from sensory substitution, aiming to explore the idea of "hacking the body" from within. Here, participants are not just observers but integral internal agents within the artwork's interactive system.
Approaching the human body through holistic and phenomenological lens, I draw upon my prior research, particularly delving in interactive haptic visuality and endosensorial image. At the core of my work lies the idea of envisioning the body not merely as an entity or a physical living organism but as an apparatus or even a “black box” in itself.
Exhibition:
“ Love's Modern Nature”
Patrícia J. Reis, Agata Nowosielska
Curator: Anna Ciabach
15.01 - 16.02.2024
Opening: 15.01.2024, 7:00 p.m
Austrian Cultural Forum
ul. Próżna 7/9
Warszawa
The latest exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum is a meeting between two artists: Patricia J. Reis from Portugal, who lives in Vienna, and Agata Nowosielska from Gdansk.
The title “Love's Modern Nature” is a narrative about the current changes in the field of relationships, the understanding of which goes far beyond the romantic and interpersonal. Rather, it is a complex ecosystem of tangled feelings and fears, constantly reacting to changes that we as individuals cannot fully keep up with.
photo©Janine Schranz
photo©Flavio Palasciano