aquarium and OHM, Berlin, Germany
Deadline: 20 July 2019
Creamcake announces the 3rd “<Interrupted = “Cyfem and Queer>” symposium, taking place at Berlin’s OHM and aquarium on August 10. The Berlin-based experimental music and art platform’s day and night-long program of conversations, panels, lectures and performances this time explores the contemporary reality of data control, surveillance and automation.
Earlier events moved from discussing the status quo of past and present cyberfeminist thought, practices and politics to focussing on the biotechnological and political management of bodies, sex and gender through a cyber/technofeminist lens.
The 3rd “<Interrupted = “Cyfem and Queer>” symposium takes a deep dive into the way technologies and software applications operate, process, establish, cross or contest boundaries. By monitoring our movements via smartphones and social media, a historically unprecedented and ever-growing archive of public information exists, profiling people in an attempt to predict future choices and behaviors. These developments threaten free speech, political freedom and the right to privacy. In contemplating new and utopian ways of what pioneer cyberfeminist Donna Haraway calls, “living and dying well together on terra”, we are facing the difficult task of protecting ourselves from being subsumed by data and surveillance. By looking to defend freedom of expression, while at the same time protecting the rights of marginalized groups within heteronormative, white supremacist societies, the 3rd “<Interrupted = “Cyfem and Queer>” asks, among other things:
Creamcake is seeking academic papers, practice-based reflections; presentation, panel and workshop ideas; and art and music performance contributions related but not limited to:
How to apply via form:
Creamcake encourages women, queer, trans and gender non-conforming people, and people of color to apply, as well as applications from emerging artists and researchers.
Accepted applicants will be invited to present their project or research on August 10 at OHM and aquarium in Berlin. Creamcake will endeavour to cover food and accommodation as much as possible and will contribute with a budget to your travel expenses. Resources for travel are limited but Creamcake is also open to connecting online.
Deadline: July 20th, 2019
For further informations and questions, please contact: interrupted@creamcake.de
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