For
thinking technology from an intersectional lens (instead of a feminist one);
acknowledging the different intersecting axes of oppression in our daily practice and use of technology;
acknowledging the web of relations around the technological tools we’re using when it comes to the mutual relationships between “service”, “server”, “served”.
With the purpose
of trying not to apologise when tools and infrastructures don’t run smoothly and seamlessly;
of understanding that technological tools and infrastructures tend to become interrogable only when they are broken;
of negotiating technology’s (violent) work of cementing norms that benefit those who flow with normativity and along the power lines of privilege.
In contact
with Elodie Mugrefya and Femke Snelting who talked to us in the video conversation „From Feminist to Intersectional Infrastructures“ about their critical work at Constant, a space for art and technology based in Brussels working towards interrogating technology from a feminist perspective, making technologies visible and addressable. One key aspect and underlying topic throughout our conversation is Constant’s current shift (and its consequences) from feminist to intersectional practices and technologies – acknowledging intersecting axes of oppression.
with the “Feminist Server Manifesto 0.01”, in “Are you being Served” Constant, 2014. Online, PDF
with “DiVersions”, an artistic research project initiated by Constant that is engaged with the potential of on-line cultural heritage and that – in dialogue with cultural institutions and their digitized collections – experiments with digital heritage, databases, metadata, catalogues and digital infrastructures to welcome various forms of collaboration, allowing conflicts to show up, and make space for other narratives.