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WORKSHOP BY MISS UNIVERSE

November 9, 2011 /

November 9th, Wednesday. 19.00-22.00

“An extreme situation, extremely surpassed: being woman in the Republic of Congo”.

Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory

Workshop by Miss Universe


The workshop will focus on the production circle of mobile phones. It will be a journey to the Congo and women’s experiences of violence during Congo’s civil war. We will talk about how civil war in Congo is related to our capitalist system and the production of mobile phones. Participants will have the opportunity to take a new look at their bodies, society, the capitalist system and to ways of using art as means of activism.

www.missuniverseforever.com

Reading Group: Appadurai

October 28, 2011 /

“the politics of value is in many contexts a politics of knowledge”

we meet Friday, Nov. 4, at 5 p.m.

to discuss the arguments of Arjun Appadurai “on commodities and the politics of value”,”the strategies that make the creation of value a politically mediated process”. Our aim is to connect these discussions to our artistic practice and our use of technologies.

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(Arjun Appadurai, “Introduction: commodities and the politics of value,

in: A. Appadurai (ed.) The social life of things. Commodities on cultural perspective,

Cambridge Univ. Press 1986)




Experiments in Performative Theory

The workshops take place twice a month as an open group.
Spoken languages: German and English.

IM NEUEN MZB-LAB!

(MQ, Eingang beim Eikon-Schaufenster in der electric avenue)

NOVEMBER PROGRAMM

October 13, 2011 /




Miss Baltazar kommt nun in 3 unterschiedlichen Formaten:


Als Workshop

(Jeden zweiten Mittwoch hands-on Wissensaustausch, praktisch, technisch, kreativ, feministisch)

Alternierend dazu das Open Lab

(unabhängigeres Experimentieren um Inhalte oder Techniken des Workshops der letzten Woche zu vertiefen, Hackerspace Situation)

Als Reading Group

(Diskussion und Auseinandersetzung mit Themen, die uns durch die Workshops relevant erscheinen)

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ALL EVENTS TAKE PLACE IN OUR NEW SPACE ON ELECTRIC AVENUE, MQ

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November 4th, Friday. 17.00-20.00

Claudia Mongini und Katharina Jesberger

Miss Baltazar’s Reading Group. Open to all Genders.

Book: Arjun Appadurai. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization.

November 9th, Wednesday. 19.00-22.00

“An extreme situation, extremely surpassed: being woman in the Republic of Congo”.

Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory

Workshop by Miss Universe

The workshop will focus on the production circle of mobile phones. It will be a journey to the Congo and women’s experiences of violence during Congo’s civil war. We will talk about how civil war in Congo is related to our capitalist system and the production of mobile phones. Participants will have the opportunity to take a new look at their bodies, society, the capitalist system and to ways of using art as means of activism.

www.missuniverseforever.com

November 16th, Wednesday. 19.00

“An extreme situation, extremely surpassed: being woman in the Republic of Congo”.

Miss Baltazar Open Lab curated by Miss Universe

In Open Lab sessions we experiment with the technology we played with in the previous week’s workshop. It gives room discuss questions that came up and demand further investigation. In this Open Lab session, we will expand on the issues Miss Universe introduced in the workshop on women in the Congo. The participants can share their thoughts or related projects, tell about their own lives and backgrounds.

www.missuniverseforever.com

Bio of Miss Universe:

In 2008, she attended the beauty contest held in Supper Club Istanbul and was nominated “Miss Universe”. After this contest, her life changed and represented her country in other beauty contests, each time being nominated as “Miss Universe”. She appears as a figure who reaches broad audiences through joyful presentations, combining contemporary performance elements of action, text and music, with pop-culture, references to classical art history, using choirs, children songs, fashion and show business elements. The content of the performances emphasize specifically on human rights, politics, gender issues, domestic violence and history of art.

November 23rd, Wednesday. 19.00

“The Beauty of Distortion”

Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory

Workshop by Christine Schörkhuber

In this workshop we will create visuals by causing distortions on screens. We explore possibilities to generate Live Visuals without using any software. We work with Interference signals, Videofeedback, selfbuilt – faders, open wires and everything that comes along the way to create beautiful weird and abstract video landscapes.No technical experience required.

http://www.chschoe.net/

November 30th, Wednesday. 19.00

“The Beauty of Distortion”

Miss Baltazar Open Lab curated by Christine Schörkhuber

In Open Lab sessions we experiment with the technology we played with in the previous week’s workshop. In Christine Schörkhuber’s Open Lab we will continue to generate visuals through distortion of screens.

Bio of Christine Schörkhuber:

Geboren 1982, an der Akademie der bildenden Künste bei Franz Graf und Dorit Margreiter (Video/Videoinstallation). Als freischaffende Künstlerin, Medienkomponistin und Filmemacherin tätig.
Im Vorstand der IG Kultur Österreich, redaktionelle Tätigkeit Radiosendung „Bewegungsmelder Kultur“.

This coming Thursday Workshop by Hannah Perner-Wilson (pulsea.at)

May 26, 2011 /

Handcrafting Textile Sensors

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http://www.plusea.at/

WHERE: Museumsquartier, Tagr TV / Transforming Freedom Space

WHEN: 7pm

WHO: women and trans only, free entry

This hands-on workshop introduces a range of low-cost materials and tools for building textile sensors. Participants will learn techniques for handcrafting textile sensors and circuitry that include sewing, knitting, crochet and embroidery.

The goal of the workshop is to familiarize participants with available electronic textile materials and introduce them to a variety of sensor and circuitry construction techniques.

Participants will also learn how to read the values of their sensors, using multimeters as well as Arduinos and Processing.


WORKSHOP AND DISCUSSION

May 25, 2011 /

Activism and Counter-Activism

Behavioural Dynamics in Cyberspace

WITH SYRIAN ARCHITECT KINDA AL SAYED

When/Where: Mon 2011-05-30, 21:00 at the Metalab main room
Lecturer: Kinda Al Sayed is from Syria, she is working as an architect in London
and has closely followed the political changes in Syria.

The exercise of democracy in societies has always been the product that tradeoffs between two forces; emergent bottom up expressions of individual interests and top down decisions made by authorities. This equation maybe imbalanced in systems where power and decision-making is exercised by the authority rather than by the people.

In authoritarian regimes, when people make attempts to exercise their democratic rights they will be faced by coercion for which media machinery and communication tools are either devoted to mislead the public or disabled to avoid exposing authoritarian actions. This form of suppression of media machinery is only maintained through having control over the centralized form of media. The despotic enforcement of media control has been evidently busted throughout the Arab spring phenomena as an effect of decentralizing and personalizing media tools. This new instrumentalization of the media by the public allowed individual’s emission of information by exploiting all the affordances of the WWW medium. Social media networks have particularly contributed to a great extent to the dismantling of authorities’ suppressive activity. Within this process new forms of emergent behaviors have evolved as a by-product of togetherness in cyber space that would never have been enabled in the physical space. Different types of behavioral dynamics were identified within the flow of messaging between anonymous activists raising individual’s awareness towards communal values and disrupting activities exercised by counter-activism machinery. Time as a fundamental component of the medium’s affordances started playing an essential role in the regulation of action-reaction dynamics within the messaging flow. In this way the medium became the message by means of time and the social networking interface was made value-laden by means of its structure that embraces different affordances towards time and space. The partitioning of space and time in these interfaces together with the network structure that builds up between the different partitions left a huge impact on the influence boundaries of the message. This is where time as a construct of cyberspace starts to build a reciprocal relationship with time in the physical space. Through this reciprocal relationship differences can be identified between the affordances of Physical and Virtual spaces towards the rise of social organizations. The phenomenon of twitter journalism casts a very substantial impact on individuals’ actions and reactions due to its brief and instant messaging power. Where there are benefits to such medium of communication there are also risks that are posed by control and distortion of information. The persistence and spreading of the Arab spring phenomena and the partial success of it suggests that emergent self-driven reporting activity will eventually prevail. This suggestion is reasoned by the simple realism that the powers to control its emergence and contain its spreading won’t be affordable once passed a certain threshold.

miss baltazar's laboratory is co-hosting:

May 16, 2011 /

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./ Make Me! Festival | Napravi Me! Festival

http://na.pravi.me

⇒Belgrade, Friday 10th – Monday 14th of June 2011

⇒Cultural Centre REX, Jevrejska 16

⇒TEACH YOU, TEACH ME:
A RESEARCH ON THE PRESENCE AND POTENTIAL
OF ALTERNATIVE USES
OF TECHNOLOGY IN EVERYDAY LIFE,
ON THE STREETS OF BELGRADE


register for the workshops at na@pravi.me
all workshops are free of charge

Make me! festival will feature a series of workshops on building and using different DIY devices, with a critical reflection on the presence of technology in public space.

The workshops are intended for tech-savvy women and girls but also enthusiasts of all genders with no previous knowledge. Artists and activists gathered around independent, self-organised initiatives from the Netherlands, Austria and Serbia will teach a wide range of subjects, from listening to electromagnetic waves and analysis of wireless Internet traffic to the use of satellite signal for GPS and solar energy.

The attendants will learn how to make and modify devices for receiving and storing the data they gather. Through one and two days workshops where “everyone teaches everyone”, we will explore the presence of technology on the streets of Belgrade. We will play with the potential of alternative uses of technology in everyday life.

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The main goal is to question what is given and imposed by the technology, through an approach on the intersection between technology, art and activism. The workshops are meant to enable and encourage the participants to work with everyday technology and adapt it to their needs. They are not expected to show high technical literacy but curiousity to get to know and possibly modify technology that is available to everyone.

The target group are primarily girls with an experience in some kind of activism and an interest in art and technology. It is expected from the participants to share the interest in ‘breaking the box’ and ‘looking inside’, and to have an affinity towards learning new skills. One of important outcomes of this programme will be to create and strengthen a network that would connect the ones who are active on this scene. Through this network, we expect to be able to can support each other even long after the events have ended.

The workshops will take place over the course of 4 days, with two or three workshops sometimes running in parallel. The main programme is meant for women only. It is thought of as a ‘women for women’ exchange of knowledge. The programme would be open for participation of everyone interested, with the idea to open up our activities and content to everyone we are sharing our environment with.

for more information visit http://na.pravi.me

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