> /////////////////// > DIGITALES - 3rd edition
> CALL FOR PAPERS/TALES
>
> Tell the stories * of women and technologies
>
>
> Rather than falling into techno-phobia or becoming
> techno-fans, "Digitales"
> has always approached digital techniques with a
> critical and creative eye.
> They exist, they are here, so we might as well use
> them, understand them and
> make use of them in a way that will serve our
> objectives.
>
> We cannot ignore the history of information
> technologies, their mythology,
> symbols, heroines, male or female. The history and
> mythology being
> transmitted still influences the way they are
> written and taught. One often
> hears that girls are not interested in technical
> things because they are too
> cold and too systematic, but what about telling them
> that one of the
> pioneers of computing wanted to create a machine
> that would enable him to
> contact his lost loved one and that he died like
> Snow White after eating a
> poisoned apple : isn't that a beautiful fairy tale?
>
> Understanding the languages and structures in this
> new grammar, and maybe
> even imagining others. How these standards and
> structures have been able to
> exclude or involve certain types of people, because
> of certain types of
> reflexes and expectations, but by discovering that,
> also discover the
> possibility of re-writing and inventing processes.
>
> We would like to receive stories and herstories
> about what we call the
> "founding myths": Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, Grace
> Hopper, etc.
>
> And also tales of/about women and techniques
>
> * Send a ' fragment ' or a whole story in words
> and/or images on one A4
> format page; RTF or JPG files, 300k maximum, to be
> uploaded ONLY on
> http://www.digitales-online.org/tales >
> Deadline : 15 November 2003
>
> Questions? Info@???
>
>
> DIGITALES 3rd dition
> 21- 24/01/2004
> 10 & 30 rue du Méridien 1210 Brussels
> If you want to receive the programm when it is ready
> ->
> info@???
>
> Digitales are full days of meetings/participation on
> work, knowledge,
> skills, experiences, dreams and questioning; this
> time of technological and
> feminist activity and continual exchange could give
> birth to a virtual
> network.
>
>
> Objectives
>
> Finding a common language to provoke thoughts and to
> work out a practice
> which will stimulate women's action in contemporary
> society and bring
> awareness of the concept of gender to the debates on
> new technologies
> through:
> - technological and creative initiation
> - understanding of the work tool
> - the critical analysis of new technologies
> - the discovery and the construction of new images
> and interactions
> - constructing history, means of transmitting
> experience
>
> Bringing together those who:
> - have or want to use technologies to earn their
> living and to provide for
> the needs of a family
> - have professional and technical skills on the
> cutting edge of information
> and communication technology and alternative systems
> - undertake university research in various
> disciplines and in various
> countries,
> - create their artistic work by using 'traditional'
> or 'new' media (film,
> video, Internet, digital support)
> - are interested by feminist thought on contemporary
> society.
>
> Partners
> Four organising associations, three in Brussels and
> one in Antwerp
> - Interface3 asbl: a centre and a team for
> vocational training and
> integration of women in new technologies;
> - Sophia: a coordination network for feminist/gender
> studies
> - Constant vzw: an organisation linking artistic and
> theoretical thinking on
> the Internet and digital communication
> -The Policy Research Centre on Equal Opportunities:
> a consortium of the
> University of Antwerp (UA) and the University Centre
> of Limburg (LUC). The
> Centre occupies an intermediary position between a
> research institute,
> public administration and civil society.
> Guests
> -Htmelles- Festival Maid in Cyberspace from
> Montréal, an annual and
> international festival of media arts
>
> Links
> http://www.ada-online.be > http://www.digitales-online.org > http://www.sophia.be > http://www.constantvzw.com/digitales > http://www.steunpuntgelijkekansen.be > http://www.htmlles.net >
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