Miss Baltazar’s Lab proudly presents:

Artist talk with:

Cinthia Mendonça
co-founder of Nuvém a rural hack lab in Brasil

22.August 2014, 19h
Sechshauserstraße 28
1150 Wien

this miss baltazar event is free and open to all genders

Presentation in ENG/ PT

ABOUT

Cinthia Mendonça will introduce the project Nuvém – a rural hack lab located between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in Brasil. The project offers artist in residences in a transdisciplinary and environmental friendly context and aims to be a activist platform to promote feminist knowledge in a contralab approach.

SHORT BIO

Cinthia Mendonça is the Co-founder of Nuvem – estação rural de arte e tecnologia, a rural hacklab devoted to artistic residency programs, including the development of proposals based on collaborative and transdisciplinary work, at the intersection between arts, science, engineering, different technologies and community knowledge. Nuvem is also a space devoted to the development of technologies of minimal environmental impact technologies; it hosts several meetings, including the feminist meet-up Encontrada, already in its third edition. As a performance artist, Cinthia is interested in the investigation of themes related to body, subjectivity, machines, devices, gadgets and things.

More info here!

http://ubalab.org/tag/nuvem

https://www.flickr.com/photos/fotosdanuvem/sets/

Waiwai is a formally trained artist, self-taught coder and practicing witch. For the last year, Waiwai has been inhabiting in european forests, practicing hunting, herb lore, programming, to research links between primitive and post-industrialized technology and belief, and their relationship in terms of the recent collapsing of artificial and natural system. During the section, Waiwai will share her experience and understanding as a nomad between the wild and the urban.

WEDNESDAY, 6.30 pm

Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory

Sechshauserstraße 28

1150 Vienna

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