Nadja Buttendorf DE
Nadja Buttendorf questions contemporary codes and norms of gender construction as well as challenging the mechanisms of value creation that affect the human body in our digital society. Her work illustrates that even our understanding of technology is closely tied to systems of patriarchal power relations. Rejecting these notions, her interactive works and video projects are designed for interaction constructing new and far more multilayered narratives in which women regain their visibility as an integral part of the history of technology. To this end, she draws on communicative moments of online participation both in her online tutorials and by creating performative jewelry objects. DIY as a widespread online aesthetic functions as a consciously employed strategy of both enabling access and defying neoliberal work ethics.
nadjabuttendorf.com
Davide Bevilacqua AT
Davide Bevilacqua is a media artist and a curator interested on one side in network infrastructures and technological activism, and on the other in curatorial and artistic research about the framework condition in which artistic practice is presented and transmitted to the audience. His current topics of research are the internet sustainability and environmental impact of technologies, digital greenwashing practices and platform capitalism.
He is part of the artist collective qujOchÖ, he collaborates with the sound art gallery bb15, and works with servus.at, association dealing with open source internet infrastructure and online art and culture. He organizes the community festival AMRO Art Meets Radical Openness.
davidebevilacqua.com
Lucile Olympe Haute FR
Lucile Olympe Haute is a visual artist based in Paris working in the field of performance, new media and installations. Her research bridges spirituality, technologies and politics — understood in the broader sense of a committed and eco-responsible "living together" that goes beyond anthropocentrism and welcomes symbiotic companionships beyond kingdom hirarchies of plant, animal, fungi or bacteria.
Synthesizing these issues, she wrote the Cyberwitches Manifesto to empower eco-feminist, queer and trans-feminist's ideas with the emergence through technology. The manifesto carries also the purpose of unifying witches from different backgrounds and political commitments to emphasize process of co-creations, co-working and collaborations. Her work often manifests through the aesthetic and narrative versatility of web-to-print design tools, propagating and teaching them inside workshops. She is lecturer in art & design at the University of Nîmes (FR) and associate researcher at Arts Décoratifs of Paris (FR).
lucilehaute.fr
