# HFF2020 Talks #1
[中文版](https://hackmd.io/@HFF/Bkcxno_Qw)

We hope these talks inspire you.

## Victoria Manganiello: Artist Talk
#### Victoria Manganiello, Artist
#### Sep 1st @ UTC 13:00 - 14:00

Victoria Manganiello will share her background, experiences and inspirations as an artist working in textiles and technology. Contextualized with precedents and stories about other fiber artists and e-textile practitioners that inspire her, Victoria’s presentation will detail her work as an artist, designer and educator. You can learn more about her ahead of the talk by visiting her instagram (@victoriamanganiello) and website (www.victoriamanganiello.com)

## The Great Paper Mulberry — A Botanist’s pursuit of Pacific Anthropology

#### Kuo-Fang Chung, Research Museum and Herbarium (HAST), Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Sep 5th @ UTC 14:00 - 15:00
The settlement of Pacific islands by Austronesian-speaking peoples (hereafter Austronesians) concludes the last stage of Neolithic human expansion. Prior to European colonial expansions, the ca. 1250 Austronesian languages were the most widely spoken linguistic family, ranging from Madagascar to Easter Island from west to east and Taiwan to New Zealand from north to south. Recent archaeological, linguistic, and human genomic data of ancient DNA increasingly favor the “Out of Taiwan” hypothesis for Austronesian dispersal. However, this “farming language dispersal hypothesis” still lacks genetic supports of commensal crops and/or domesticated animals that were transported by Austronesian ancestors from East Asia into Oceanic islands. Paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera), a fibrous, dioecious, and weedy tree species native to China, Taiwan, and Indochina, was recorded in oral histories to be introduced and clonally propagated across Oceanic islands by Austronesian ancestors for making bark cloth, an iconic and highly symbolic object of Austronesian material culture, representing an ideal commensal species to test hypotheses of Austronesian expansion and migration. Based on genetic and genomic data, we demonstrate that Pacific paper mulberry used for making tapa is predominately female and was originated from Taiwan, suggesting its anthropogenic introduction from Taiwan. Dated phylogenetic analyses using whole chloroplast genome sequences indicate a chronology of ancient introduction from Taiwan eastward into the Remote Oceanic islands highly congruent with the anthropological model, providing so far the most convincing ethnobotanical support for the “Out of Taiwan” and “farming language dispersal” hypotheses of Austronesian expansion and migration.

## Unspoken fabric - Traditional Village Handcraft Culture From GuiZhou Province of China
#### Yao Yuang Yuang, community development worker
#### Sep 6th @ UTC 14:00 - 15:00
Hello this is Angel Yao, come from GuiZhou province locates in the south west of China where had rich and variety of minorities culture,there are 49 different minorities living In my province.
I was born in GuiZhou province then I had master degree of tourism management in University of Derby.after 4 years UK life experience I back BeiJing China, over ten years working in top 500 fortune company which are GE, Foxconn, Lenovo and HP As project manager, my last project in HP is "Angel's Eye", which is the first HP laptop special design for people with visual problems, with 147 key combinations gestures and 34 easy to learn course could help people with visual problems start their internet life by " listening " instead of "See", as originator CEO award this project after my name. After that I established my own social enterprise organization in BeJing, Continues a project call "A family life" which is a community dining restaurant run by 34 people with hearing problems, Award Yue by British culture council in 2015. Then I back my hometown start field research among 500 villages, I do believe every minority had their own spiritual land allowing the villagers close to their ancestors and under their protection, living peacefully, their ethnic handcrafts are all amazing by materials making, patterns and religions expressions etc. Those rich ethnic culture are part of the diversities culture of our global village and they are interesting and important to share in many ways. Therefore we are here to explore the code.
Will show you two cases study from Miao and GE minority both of them don't have written language, make traditions costume is the their way of "unspoken fabric talks story"

## Hacking Materials on The Nanoscale
#### Marc Dusseiller, nomadic researcher and workshopologist, founder of Hackteria
#### Sep 9th @ UTC 14:00 - 15:00
During this course, the students will be introduced into the merging disciplines of art, science and engineering that meet at the nanoscale. But what is nanotechnology? It promises huge beneficial impact on global health, sustainable energy and novel materials. At the same time utopian visions, science-fiction scenarios and fundamental fears are clashing at discussions in society. Throughout the course, we will lift the fogs of these superficial discussions and through hands-on activities get closer to grasp the world of the small. We will build our own simple DIY (do-it-yourself) optical and electronic instruments to learn more about nanoparticles and nanosensors, how to "see" them, how to "hear" them.
[more about project work and speculativ design thinking](https://www.hackteria.org/wiki/NanoHacking-UNILI?fbclid=IwAR11hU-A4phGmSvhN2dIkybijX3fiJ6ZQ1K3ITy2FXwlt9pPFaDy1lCoul4#Overview)

Slides:
Dusjagr on his personal background bridging disciplines from engineering, material science and biology. Building laboratories as a life-style. Overview of Hackteria | Open Source Biological Art.
https://www.slideshare.net/dusjagr/dusjagr-hff-intro

Short expedition into the nano-world, Nanohacking, examples of DIY methodologies into the nanoscale developed during NanoSmano, 2010-2012
https://www.slideshare.net/dusjagr/dusjagr-hff-onnanohacking

project main site: www.hff2020.xyz