Call for proposals (CfP): FemHackFest Intergenerationel: CURIOSITY-POLITIZATION-DECOLONISATION

Organized by FemHack as part of the HTMlles festival

Sunday, November 9, 2014 from 09:30 to 17:00 (GMT)

Espace Fibre, 2665 rue Augustin-Cantin, 2nd floor Montreal, Quebec H3K 2E2

FemHack invites submissions for presentations, discussions and hands-on workshops for its biannual full-day event Deadline : October 15 !

FemHack is an autonomous group from Montreal whose mission is to create an empowering and inspiring environment for politicized feminist and queer hackers. Triggered by Do-It-Together practices, learning by doing and curiosity about how things are made, believing in the freedom of technology, privacy, openness and sharing of common goods, FemHack identifies with the most avant-gardist elements of hacker ethics. We take an intersectional feminist perspective to what we do and think, which means that we hack patriarchy, capitalism and other systems of oppression. FemHackFest takes an intersectional and intergenerational feminist posture where learning from peers of all genders and ages are at its root.

This year, we want to stress on the intergenerational aspect of feminist hacking, and we strongly encourage you to try to include it in your proposal, were it experimental, work in progress or already completed research. Intergenerational aspects include, but are not limited to:

  • technology and hacking throughout the different generations and practices of diversion and reappropriation
  • common misconseptions of age, youth and aging in queer, feminist, geek and hacker communities
  • uniting different generations around technology and hacking practices.

Along with this intergenerational focus, the FemHackFest2014 is guided by the 3 following core themes:

(1) Igniting curiosity: breaking narrow understandings of technologies

  • How does curiosity to hacking emerge and take place?
  • Who and what ignite technical passion in our lives?
  • How can we strategically use technical tools?
  • How do we learn and transmit knoweldge uuriosity from and between generations?

(2) (Re)Politicing technology from an intersectional and intergenerational feminist perspective

  • What does feminist hacking mean to intersectional and intergenerational feminist and how does it materialise ?
  • What are different aspects of hacking - and their practical implications?
  • What relations do we create between our bodies, our ages and our hacking practices?
  • How to consider technologies as commons rather than tools for exploitation and privatisation?

(3) Decolonizing technologies:

  • How are feminist hackers resisting to the privatisation of technologies and private life surveillance?
  • Which trust practices and security tools (such as encryption) can help us to prevent states, corporations and individuals to intrude in our lives.
  • What stories, case studies, tools, strategies or public actions against mass surveillance and data mining inspire us as feminist and citizens of all age ?

We invite submission proposals for workshops, presentations and discussions on the above general themes and beyond.

Submissions should include:

  • a title
  • a brief description (100-150 words) of your project
  • format of the presentation: hands-on or artistic workshop, group discussion, presentation.
  • needed materials for your presentation/workshop/discussion

Submissions should be received by October 15, on the following e-mail: femhack@lists.riseup.net