blog post #5

2025

• Feminist Servers, assembly at the 39th Chaos Communications Congress, Hamburg, 27-30 December 2025. Toot.
• Technofeministische (Re)Produktionsweisen, workshop, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 11-12 December 2025.
• Nothing comes without its world!, exhibition, Deutscher Künstlerbund Berlin, 13 September-21 November 2025. On the occasion of the presentation of the HAP Grieshaber Prize 2025, Cornelia Sollfrank takes the invitation to a solo exhibition as an opportunity not only to present a selection of her own works, but also to provide insight into the “world” that this work has helped to create: a long-standing relational network of Berlin-based and international agents. Accompanying event: Critical knowledge and communication infrastructure as aesthetic practice: Workshop for the tech*feminist art scene in Berlin, November 19, 2025, 10:30-18h. Toot.
• Anti-Daedalus: A Manifesto Against the Cybernetic Hypothesis, by Lisbeth Salander and Maia Halassar, 1 May 2025, 42 pp. An analysis and critique of 80 years of global US hegemony based upon a cybernetic war machine, paired with a novel cyberfeminist reinterpretation of the Daedalus myth.
• Living with Two Brains. Women in AI and New Media Art, symposium, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 15-16 February 2025. Organised by the Mori Art Museum and AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions. Video documentation. [1]

2024

• Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing, 1960-1991, ed. Michelle Cotton, Luxembourg: Mudam Luxembourg/Musée d’art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien, and Cologne: Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, October 2024, 223 pp. With three new essays by Tina Rivers Ryan, Margit Rosen and Michelle Cotton. “The publication accompanies the exhibition surveying the history of digital art from a feminist perspective, focusing on women who worked with computers as a tool or subject and artists that worked in an inherently computational way. It also features a richly illustrated timeline covering the period between 1613 and 1991 and includes twenty-seven new interviews with artists.” Publisher, [2]. Exhibitions: MUDAM Luxembourg, 20 September-2 February 2025; Kunsthalle Wien, 28 February-25 May 2025, Artists & works, [3]. Exh. booklet. Symposium (28 February 2025). Exh. reviews: Emily McDermott (ArtReview), Kathrin Heinrich (Frieze), Marilena Borriello(Burlington), Will Jennings (Wallpaper), Artishock, Marika Kupková (Artalk).
  • Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991, Luxembourg: Mudam Luxembourg/Musée d’art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien, and Cologne: Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, October 2024, 224 pp. Publisher, [4]. (German)
• Key Operators: Weaving and Coding as Languages of Feminist Historiography, exhibition and events, Kunstverein München, Munich, 7 September-24 November 2024. Curator: Gloria Hasnay, with Maurin Dietrich. Exh. booklet. Web publication.
• Erin Dickey, “Bad Information”: Networks, Knowledges, and Feminist Art in the 1980s, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina, August 2024, 405 pp. PhD thesis. In an era of rapid technological change in the 1980s, the work of Judy Malloy, Nancy Paterson, and Karen O’Rourke probed the political, aesthetic, and technological processes underlying the “information age,” scrutinizing not just what but how we know.
• TECHNOFEM: Cyberfeminism in Bulgaria, performance and discussion, Toplocentrala, Sofia, 9 July 2024. Initiated by ULTRAFUTURO, Eastern Balkans Institute for Art and Architecture and gallery Gallery.
• “None of this experiment is evident. A conversation on Irational server”, titipi.org, July 2024. A conversation between Kate Rich (Irational) and Femke Snelting (TITiPI).
• Katrin Mayer, a.o., #c0da comptoir #fanny carolsruh, exhibition, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, 21 June-1 September 2024. [5]
• Eclectic Tech Carnival, Berlin, 5-9 June 2024. Hosted by Heart of Code Hackspace and New Yorck.
• This Feminist internet Life. FTX Stories of Collaboration, Creativity and Care, podcast series, Association for Progressive Communications (APC), 7 May 2024. “In this podcast, we invite you on a journey to explore stories by the voices of over 15 feminist tech activists from the global south! You will start by listening how since the dial-up internet era the paths towards imagining and creating a feminist internet started, leading to building more inclusive, safe and queer feminist movements in the digital age. While having at the core of the process fun and care for people, the earth and our feminist activism.” [6]
• Transnational Anti-colonial Trans★Feminist Counter Cloud Action Day, multiple locations, 8 March 2024. “We call for a Counter Cloud Action Day –– a permanent ceasefire in Palestine and for an end to the genocide facilitated by the Israeli government’s military-technological complex.” Convened by Varia, The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest, Constant, Institute of Diagram Studies, The Digital Discomfort Working Group, Hackers & Designers, ooooo, Tecnosandías, Hamaca, in-grid, NeON, Cartography of Darkness + all those who can’t sign because of state sanctioned censorship. Actions. Mastodon. List. (multiple languages)
• Gözde Ersöz, Gökmen Kantar, Meltem İnce Yenilmez (eds.), Reconstructing Feminism Through Cyberfeminism, Leiden: Brill (Studies in Critical Social Sciences), January 2024. “Investigates how digitalization has affected entrepreneurship, labour markets, financial markets, and women’s empowerment, underlining the opportunity it presents for a more inclusive and equal society. Publisher.

2023

• How to Cypher Sex: A Manual for Collective Digital Self-Defense Guides, December 2023, 64 pp, PDF. Manual for collectively writing localized digital self-defense guides that advocates self-empowerment through the use of online identity management and other digital self-defense strategies.
• Shusha Niederberger, Anthonie de Groot, “«Jetzt haben wir die Cloud und alles ist magic magic»”, splatz.space, November 2023. Interview. (German)
• Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South, Stanford University Press, September 2023, 260 pp. Publisher.
• Cameron Hurst, “VNS Matrix-Pilled: Three Propositions for Revisiting 1990s Cyberfeminist Art Now”, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 23:1, August 2023, pp 43-60. DOI. [7]
• Vanice Devenich, “Technofeministische Praxis der Zukunftsgestaltung”, Transformazine, June 2023. Lecture. (German)
• Stefanie Wuschitz, “A Diffractive Approach to Feminist Media Art”, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intermedia Arts & Creative Technology (CREATIVEARTS) 2021, May 2023. “Intervening into the biosphere as a feminist artist, maker or hacker means applying ethics of care and convivality for a sustainable co-existance, being concerned and attentive to changes occurring in the process. With this paper I attempt to analyse creative arts in a diffractive approach, thinking Feminisms through Art and Technology.”
• Marloes de Valk, “rosa’s Ecofeminist Dictionary”, Solar Protocol, April 2023. Toot.
• “Tecnopolíticas del 8M. Cuentos y otras narraciones sonoras de tres tecnólogas disidentes ciberfeministas”, El Salto Radio, March 2023, 20 min. Conversation with Spideralex (Donestech and Femblog), Revu (neighbour of the cyberworld) and Charo Marcos (Asociación OtroTiempo). (Spanish)
• A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers, March 2023, 189 pp, PDF. A publication from the ATNOFS project, collectively made with Wendy Van Wynsberghe, Vlad Dobrițoiu, Teo Săvoiu, Spideralex, Sergiu Nisioi, Roel Roscam Abbing, Reni Hofmüller, ooooo, Nina Botthof, Martino Morandi, Marloes de Valk, Mara Karagianni, Manetta Berends, Lídia Pereira, Julia Bande, Femke Snelting, elodie Mugrefya, Donatella Portoghese, Danae Tapia, Cristina Cochior, Azahara Cerezo, Aymeric Mansoux, Artemis Gryllaki, Aggeliki Diakrousi, Anca Bucur, amy pickles, Alice Strete, Alex Ștefănescu. Toot. [8]
• Hosting with, eds. Manetta Berends, Angeliki Diakrousi, and Artemis Gryllaki, Rotterdam: Varia, March 2023, [16] pp, PDF. Zine; a conversation around collective hosting practices in the context of art servers, community servers and feminist servers (AMRO, Linz, June 2022). [9] [10]

On 8th of March 2023, we call for a Counter Cloud Action Day.On this day, we will try to withhold from using, feeding, or caring for The Big Tech Cloud. The strike calls for a hyperscaledown of extractive digital services, and for an abundance of collective organising. We join the long historical tail of international feminist strikes, because we understand this fight to be about labour, care, anti-racism, queer life and trans★feminist techno-politics.Too many aspects of life depend on The Cloud. The expansionist, extractivist and financialized modes of Big Tech turn all lively and creative processes processes into profit. This deeply affects how we organise, and care for resources. Many public institutions such as hospitals, universities, archives and schools have moved to rented software-as-a-service for their core operations. The interests of Big Tech condition how we teach, make accessibility, learn, know, organise, work, love, sleep, communicate, administrate, care, and remember.Especially now our dependency on Big Tech Cloud seems intractable, it is time to reclaim space for renegotiating what might be possible. We want to imagine different infrastructures for collective life with and without computation. By calling for cloud resistance, we want to center slow trans★feminist, anti-racist and anti-imperial server practices. We want local digital storage, self-hosted videocalls, and collaborative server hosting. We want antifa-infras, low-energy graphics and queer circuits. We want accessible development, sustainable tech-maintainance, and feral supply chains. We want the end of work conditioned by Big Tech, and ultimately, the end of work. We want systemic, joyful, techno-political change. 🖇

• International Trans★Feminist Digital Depletion Strike, multiple locations, 8 March 2023. Convened by Anarchaserver, Constant, esc, Varia, Systerserver, TITiPI, a.o. Events. Mastodon feed [11]. Mastodon account. Images. List. [12] [13] (multiple languages)

• Shusha Niederberger, “Minor User: Subjectivity of Small Technology”, A Peer-reviewed Newspaper 12(1): “Toward a Minor Tech”, Aarhus: Digital Aesthetics Research Center, Aarhus University, February 2023, p 4; rev. as “Calling the User Interpellation and Narration of User Subjectivity in Mastodon and Trans*Feminist Servers”, APRJA 12(1): “Minor Tech”, September 2023, pp 177-191. Toot. Publisher, Publisher.
• Mara Karagianni, ooooo, Nate Wessalowski, vo ezn, “Feminists Federating”, A Peer-reviewed Newspaper 12(1): “Toward a Minor Tech”, Aarhus: Digital Aesthetics Research Center, Aarhus University, February 2023, p 4; rev. as nate wessalowski, Mara Karagianni, “From Feminist Servers to Feminist Federation”, APRJA 12(1): “Minor Tech”, September 2023, pp 192-208. Publisher. Publisher.
• Mathilde Saliou, Technoféminisme: comment le numérique aggrave les inégalités, Paris: Grasset, February 2023, 304 pp. Publisher. (French)

2022

• Prospections: “Digital Discomfort”, eds. Cell for Digital Discomfort (Cristina Cochior, Karl Moubarak, and Jara Rocha), Utrecht: BAK, December 2022–. “With “Digital Discomfort,” CfDD continue their collective study of cultures and practices of computation and invites other reflections, grammars, and actions that contribute to a plurality of inter-dependent, anti-colonial, trans*feminist, anti-ableist, and environmentally just worldmaking practices of computation. These contributions grapple with the complex distribution of agencies and stakeholders, even if it’s technically impossible to make the apparatus just “stop.””
• Mindy Seu (ed.), Cyberfeminism Index, forew. Julianne Pierce (VNS Matrix), afterw. Legacy Russell, Los Angeles: Inventory Press, December 2022, 608 pp, MOV. “Includes more than 700 short entries of radical techno-critical activism in a variety of media, including excerpts from academic articles and scholarly texts; descriptions of hackerspaces, digital rights activist groups, and bio-hacktivism; and depictions of feminist net art and new media art.” Digital companion. Publisher. Distributor. Book launch (Rhizome, video). Book tour. CF Catalog project. Tweet, [14]. Conversations: Salome Asega (Broadcast, Pioneer Works), Leslie Atzmon (Dialectic), Rea McNamara(Hyperallergic), Liara Roux (Dazed). Reviews: Jenny Wu (Brooklyn Rail), Alice Truc (Critique d’art).
  • Cyberfeminism Index Book Tour, hosted by Mindy Seu with others, multiple locations, October 2022-March 2024.
• “A Fair New Idea — A feminist video streaming platform”, Zoia Horn, November 2022.
• Counter Cloud Action Plan, Brussels: The Institute for Technology In the Public Interest, November 2022, 35 pp, PDF, PDF. Toot. [15]
• Infrastructural Interactions: Survival, Resistance and Radical Care, eds. Helen V Pritchard, and Femke Snelting, Brussels: The Institute for Technology In the Public Interest, November 2022, 83 pp, PDF, PDF. “Computational infrastructures generate harms and damage beyond ethical issues of privacy, ownership and confidentiality. They displace agencies, funds and knowledge into apps and services and thereby slowly but surely contribute to the depletion of resources for public life. While data- infrastructures capture public data-streams, they also capture imagination for what a public is, and what is in its interest. We urgently need other imaginations for how we interface with infrastructures, beyond delivering a “solution” to a “need” (or the promise they can fulfill a future need). The workshops, documentation and structures in this workbook are a small contribution to making this complex paradigm shift together.” With contributions by TITiPI, Varia (Manetta Berends, Cristina Cochior), Clareese Hill, Other Weapons, Gwen Barnard, Naomi Alizah Cohen, Yasmine Boudiaf and Infrastructural Manouevres. Workbook wiki. Toot.

• c0da, November 2022–. “A research project and publishing platform conceived by artist Katrin Mayer that deals with feminist modes of coding and writing. Developed in close collaboration with graphic designer and programmer Anna Cairns, it interweaves the herstory of the internet with herstories of writing.” Launch. (German)/(English)

• dtgl fmnsm interFACE Digital Please Center, programme, part of Spy on Me Festival #4, HAU4, Dresden, 22-23 September 2022. Concept: dgtl fmnsm Kollektiv (allapopp, Sarah Ama Duah, Ulla Heinrich, Philisha Kraatz, Echo Can Luo, Teresa Schönherr). Artists: Iyo Bisseck, Petja Ivanova, Rain Rose, Kaya Zakrzewska, Echo Can Luo, Sarah Ama Duah, Lisa Kaschubat, Andara Shastika, allapopp, Rain Rose, Raras Umaratih, Kaya Zakrzewska. Recap Video (39 min).