Presentation/ Workshop
INTRA-ACCION international Symposium
18.10. to 19.10.24
Barcelona, Spain+
MAK WIEN
1.10.24, 19h
Museum für angewandte Kunst
Stubenring 5, 1010 Wien, AT
Conversation Piece: Eco-Feminist Decolonial Hardware with Patrícia J. Reis and Stefanie Wuschitz
Clay PCB, an artistic work by Patrícia J. Reis and Stefanie Wuschitz. Their work raises important questions regarding ecofeminism, contemporary design, and the use of technology and its raw materials.
THE FORMAT CONVERSATION PIECES
We need to talk! In the art education format Conversation Pieces we will speak with artists, activists, scientists, and personalities from various fields about select objects from the MAK Collection. Conversation Pieces is dedicated to themes like diversity, feminism, participation or loneliness, symbiotic bodies, racism in collections, planet care, and much more. We use the MAK as a polyphonic place for the exchange of ideas and to engage in various sociopolitical discourses and problems that enable new perspectives on an extraordinary collection. Conversation Pieces can be understood as an impetus to make widespread pictorial worlds and narratives visible and to critically question them by talking about them together.
PRICE
In addition to the event fee, a museum ticket (admission ticket, MAK Annual Pass, Kulturpass, etc.) is required to attend the event. Use the online booking tool for reduced admission, or take advantage of the new Conversation Piece 2024 subscription.
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€ 12 (incl. admission to the MAK)
€ 5 (if admission to the museum if free, eg with MAK Annual ticket)
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Exhibition
Noise_Media Art_Vienna
with Fotogalerie Wien
12.09. to 15.09.24
11 a.m.–7 p.m.
Palais Festetics
Berggasse 16
1090 Vienna, Austria
Patrícia J. Reis's interactive artwork challenge the conventional role of technology in shaping human experiences, particularly in how we perceive, engage with, and form relationships. The artist critiques the dominance of visuality in digital interactions, inviting participants to explore perception through other senses. Her "Massage chairs Love" series immerses individuals in a multi-sensory experience, using flickering lights, binaural beats, and vibrations to trigger what she describes as a "glitch" in human perception, offering a more holistic sensory engagement beyond the visual perception. This approach reflects on how technology, while often standardizing experiences, can also expand and disrupt sensory boundaries.
This approach reflects on how technology, while often standardizing experiences, can also expand and disrupt sensory boundaries.
Participants interact with the installation by sitting in adjustable chairs, where they are surrounded by synchronized audiovisual and tactile stimuli. Through custom-designed ceramic sensors embedded in the chairs, users can control the frequency and intensity of the light and sound by touch, further enhancing the immersive experience. The installation engages the body and senses in a rhythm that prompts visual sensations even with eyes closed, highlighting how we can form an image of the world through non-visual senses. The use of up-cycled materials and open-source technology emphasizes the artist's commitment to sustainability and accessibility.
The thematic core of the installation explores the impact of technology on love and relationships in the digital age. By remixing 80s and 90s pop songs about love into the sensory experience, Reis draws parallels between the commodification of love in media culture and the way modern dating apps promote instant gratification and digital consumerism. The work speculates on a future where love, rather than being based on human relationships, might find fulfillment through interactions with machines, driven by sensations and emotions. This thought-provoking installation questions the evolving nature of love and intimacy in a technology-driven world.
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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