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P R E P A R A T I O N
Participants http://framacalc.org/GenderBlending
Mailinglist https://listes.domainepublic.net/listinfo/genderblending
Public Archive http://genderblending.hotglue.me/publicarchive
Visual brainstorm http://genderblending.hotglue.me (to edit: http://genderblending.hotglue.me/publicarchive/edit + genderblending + jonctions)
Description site Constant http://www.constantvzw.org/site/-GenderBlending,190-.html

D O C U M E N T A T I O N
Pictures http://gallery3.constantvzw.org/index.php/GenderBlending
Queer O perating S ystem http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/qos
M onday pm presentatio ns: http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/monday
Tuesday scanning : http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/tuesday_scanning
Ideas http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/ideas
Program updates http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/program
GenderBlending Public Archive guide update http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/guide
What's wrong with being a dog? http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/whatswrongwithbeingadog

Perfect digibodies http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/digibodies
Modeling movements http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/movements
MashMesh Incomplete http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/incomplete_mesh
MakeHuman bugreport http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/bugreport
Queeriosities http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/queeriosites // http://queercabinet.hotglue.me/
Modify makehuman tutorial text: http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/makehumanTuto




F I L E S 
http://cloud.constantvzw.org
user: gender
pass: blending

Twitter #GenderBlending
 

R E S O U R C E S
What is Free Software? (The Four Freedoms): https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Matthew Kirschenbaum, flag-bearer of software archaeology and critical software studies: https://mkirschenbaum.wordpress.com/
QUILTBAG (a more inclusive and memorable way of saying "LGBT*"): http://queerdictionary.tumblr.com/post/3899608042/quiltbag
Those 3D-printed houses: http://www.archdaily.com/543518/chinese-company-showcases-ten-3d-printed-houses/

W H O  I S  H E R E

Xavier
Genre pluriels, erg (student), animation

Natacha
Brussels, French
Bodily data; interested in the relation between senses and measurement specifically in the context of social exchanges 
 explore through textiles, curious about mix, sexual orientations/gender; has kids and it matters in this context

Martino
Brussels
Not so specific 
Practice/theory - problemetize technologies; how tech enforces normality (personal)
are other technologies possible at all? 3D printing/scanning = super normalizing; how to divert from it

Pierrick
3D freelancer. Here as Blender expert, to help people!
"not the most open-minded guy in the world" (thats very openminded to say :-) ) looking to expand his horizons and challenge his expectations
He's going to be a trainer at Blender, so this a good experience!

Freyja
legal researcher law & ICT
law and ict - started 3D printing in 2011
head vs physical
has a 3D-printer downstairs, wants to incorporate into performance
communication between freija and computer creates feedback loop, glitching, noise, distortion
teaching game development - gender almost automatically an issue
technologies as a way to censor
using data that people share online, used for physical objects, if you use them, it will change you/your attitude; interesting feedback
choice of gender, how to problematize this
gendered toys

Maria PTQK (peteekoeka)
cultural producer, fundraising & organiser, critique & research
writer critic researcher not always techno media arts , also performance
personal research: book in Spanish (and Basque!) , program around biotechnology
how issue of nature is defined
how tech of visualisation effect what we think a human is, or nature is
what is a human/animal

ginger all-lower-case   (Toronto)  
"professional dilettant"
has been working on 3D 
phd-researcher on critical retorical position to 'mass c u st o mization' , she makes extensions for bodies/prothesis
relationship between individuals relation between mass goods /standards and misfit 
ex clothing, impossible to find a fitting pair of jeans
the ideal pair of jeans, through full body scanning! (also available at airports)
computer controlled customisation
what about ideal shoes? (A thing we have written on the wall in our lab: "In order to make the shoe of tomorrow, we need to make the leg of today")
Links!
Institutional: http://semaphore.utoronto.ca/people.php?p=34
Personal: http://adaptstudio.ca
Magazine: http://libregraphicsmag.com/

Rebe kk a
radical feminist activist
deconstructivist approach, look at norms and break them
intersectional, look at relations between forms of discrimination , how they make us oppressed or oppressor
technology was not a perspective so far, thinks about it as something she wants to Do it herself
works with Zeljko on kickertable
DIY , fex sound system of concert, working on my car
cars!

Phil
Based in London, architect, phd in Sheffield , programmer
Breaking out of proprietary software condition
from code to algorithm to software
process of stabilization, simulation, algorithms of science embodied in bodies

agorithms of science, and how they get embedded
nice to speak out loud this week, architects are not really interested in this
formations of software, space of possibillities, what it allows and what it prevents from happened


Pascale
visual and performance artist
' Cab inet of inet of male curiosities' , question of gender & multi identities, plays with 
just started 3d printing, not (yet) an open source user , but making a switch this week :-)
drawing, videos, sculptu re ... http://bit.ly/curiositesmasculines   http://bit.ly/sleepwind


Vera (Brussels)
3D blender tomorrow; games actionscript
assets ... this is how she got to Blender, and hope she can share with you
not a modeler (yet)

Anne
artist, activist, and recent architect (in order of appearance)
working with moving image, ergonomics in space , domesticity
queer feminist projects

Peter
Member of Constant & artist
Constant: association for arts & media, focus on free culture (free software/licenses), gender & technolgoies
video background - FLOSS 2D (timelines!)
works a lot in public space: talk about social technologies
think about publicness , language as a tool to reimagine community - urban context
there is gender in there
how does law define the gender space?

Marc
artist in Paris,  - mostly video and performance, background in cinema
phd at Sorbonne
participation as a social phenonema in performance arts , interest in DIY community
3D printing, connects to cinema > capturing the real
in residency at Bains Connective (Brussels)
identity at work is fluid

Alix
La Cambre, last year
web-art, performance. Robotics.
make myself into a robot
nterest , ed in Japan,  glitch
never made time to work with 3D

Adva
performance artist
no experience in programming/3D
internet projects, working with programmers.
how to create a dance piece in space where human bodies cannot enter (cyberspace)
general question: what is the place of perf arts when we don´t have a physycal body anymore and are only information

Femke
member of Constant
moved from NL to Brussels in 2003
trained as graphic designer, through web ended up in software
not creating software, but interested in software as cultural object

An
member of constant.
writer and storyteller, convinced there is never one story to tell, always many stories to tell.
experimenting with code and stories. what would an average user of a database would look like? 
what identity corresponds to the average?

Wendy
member of constant. knows a little bit about a lot of things. likes machines
english > sound > physical computing > 
physical/digital/physical/digital
works on protocols, gender as a protocol
feet wet, hands dirty with 3D machines; problematic and fascinating.

Ž eljko Blace (needs accents)

interests all over the place. fine arts, media arts, 
from fine arts to media art
enthousiast about FLOSS software, media theory, internet culture
part of MAMA in zagreb
then discovered sports again, and lgbt communities around sport
activist practice of organizing and reflecting; connecting the worlds.
created kicker table (downstairs), interested in minorities (people outside of the norm)
works on 'queer operating system' as conceptual framework, way to think of technology as way of emancipation
passionate about obscure operating systems, linux in early nineties
focus on multimedia with very little means
not necessary for everyone to fit the norm (Microsoft, Mac, ubuntu)
the OS niche as starting position, outside commercial software. evading dominant trends.
B e OS????

Jara
Personal interest in queerness, in wide sense
a constant displacement, counter identities; it effects me personally and that is what brings me here. 
Not a techie, but interested in tech studies


Nico
Works at steim, making tools
interested in modeling, n