# Computing otherwise: feminist technoscience ### *art, technology and science*  --- # What is technofeminist science? 👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊📡📡📡📡📡📡📡📡📡📡📡📡📡📡📡📡📡📡📡📡📡📡 --- ### Ways to rework the history of art and technology from a gender perspective.  --- ### Developing of new theories on how politics of gender and other identity markers are interconnected to resulting processes of **technical change**, and **power relations of the globalized, material world**.  --- ### **Embodied activism** and **collective politics**. * interventionist approaches to multi, inter, and transdisciplinary encounters with technoscientific and biomedical practices and knowledges. * tinkering to explore the innate links between "maker" culture and feminist studies of science --- #### Today will highlight the many ways in which FTS methods, theories, and concerns articulate the places and practices through which science and technology are performed, enact in/justice and can be transformative.  --- #### We will consider the radical potential of building from scratch in the digital age, the ethical imperative to re-write the world around us, and the philosophical experience of tinkering with knowledge itself. --- ### [Feminist] technologies are ones that are formed from feminist social relations, but varied definitions and layers of feminism complicate the definition. --- {%youtube RrlM-bSClOk %} --- ## Feminist work in mapping [How one woman is mapping femicides in Mexico | openDemocracy](https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/how-one-woman-is-mapping-femicides-in-mexico/) * Projects like these, based on aggregating news reports, are “so important,” says Carolina Torreblanca, director of data analysis at the civil society group [Data Cívica](https://datacivica.org/), in Mexico City, because they **“give the context surrounding the femicide” which “official data does not provide”.** --- <iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=174IjBzP-fl_6wpRHg5pkGSj2egE&ehbc=2E312F" width="640" height="480"></iframe> --- ### [I name you: María Salguero, creator of the Map of Femicide in Mexico](https://aristeguinoticias.com/1504/mexico/yo-te-nombro-maria-salguero-creadora-del-mapa-de-feminicidios-en-mexico/) The importance of the **Femicide Map**, in addition to **naming the victims**, is to **contextualize the events** and, thus, **find patterns in the femicides that allow a better understanding of the phenomenon.** --- # Gynepunk Lab ### [GYNEpunk: Autonomous gynecologyLAB](https://hackteria.org/wiki/BIO-reSEARCH) --- ### Speculum 3D  --- #### 3D printable speculum ([available on Thingiverse](http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:865593)) https://github.com/GaudiLabs/3DSpeculum_GynePunk ---  --- Wild openQCM. Combine two hacked quartz crystals and a theremin heterodyne circuit to transform the openQCM bio-sensor into a sound performance instrument. Instead of the data, it is possible to hear the interacting molecules. [Hackteria]([https://www.digitalmcd.com/hackteria/](https://hackteria.org/wiki/Wild_openQCM)) --- #### **Feminist technoscience** is a [transdisciplinary] branch of [science studies] which emerged from decades of feminist critique on the way gender and other identity markers are entangled in the combined fields of [science] and [technology]. --- [Queer AI](https://queer.ai/) <iframe title="vimeo-player" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/770068990?h=2a21b58864" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> --- [Queer Science and Technology Studies](https://queersts.com/) --- [Godot Engine](https://godotengine.org/) It is like Unity but open source --- [Designing Queer Narratives with Twine](https://medium.com/brinkbit/designing-queer-narratives-with-twine-865f1abae516) [Twine](http://twinery.org/) --- [Queers in Love at the End of the World](https://caoseamor.neocities.org/endoftheworldpt-br#.2s0)  --- https://cyborgrrrls.net/  ---- # Anti-racist technoscience  --- #### "We found that it is feasible and possible to create forensic alternatives to the state-centric narrative of forensic humanitarianism, that by being supposedly *neutral* reinforces the role of the government agencies as the only legitimate source of authority to deal with mass atrocities and protracted conflict." --- ## Methods * Aggregated and analysed data from various reports * Fieldwork using Ethnography and Participatory action Research * Interviews + informal talks --- ## Type Of Material Citizen Led registry of the disappeared Collection of data  Database --- ### "If it is not us, then who? If not now, when?"  --- ### Forensic Science as practice #### Families are crafting a new forensic governance system, where citizens are the ones collecting, innovating, and managing forensic technologies. --- ### Outcomes [Citizen Science](https://cienciaforenseciudadana.org/) [Data Justice](https://www.datajustice.mx/) [Awakening](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04qtwch) --- [Comunitarian Futurisms](https://share.riseup.net/ac78e963-9700-4500-894a-94bac6a6080d)  --- [Cyberfeminism Index](https://cyberfeminismindex.com/) ---- https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1SCpl2cMvhjN6xclvYHR6xhuK12LnFC_x ----