FEMeeting SisterLabs. NY, Troy: watch the video “An Evening of Radical Women’s Voices in Art, Science and Technology”

FEMeeting Sister Lab’s opening night at the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, New York featured presentations by Cecilia Vilca Ocharan, Praba Pilar, Stephanie Rothenberg and Suzanne Thorpe. In Tending Ostreidae: Serenades for Settling, Thorpe and Rothenberg celebrate the listening body of the heroic oyster. Ocharan’s lecture Exorcisms of the Territory invokes texts that draw a conversation of times, and a history that heals itself. Pilar’s convivial project Nixtamalízaté-té-té, subverts emergent AI systems into fellow travelers, into beautiful pluriversal monsters.

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More about the Presenters:

Cecilia Vilca Ocharan is a Peruvian transartist, feminist chola techno-witch, and language activist. She is a founding member of the creative and digital heritage division, MyAP Electron Microscopy Laboratory.

Praba Pilar is a diasporic Colombian artist disrupting the overwhelmingly passive participation in the contemporary ‘cult of the techno-logic.’ Over the last two decades Pilar has presented cultural productions integrating performance art, live work, digital works, video, electronic installations, radio programming, street theatre, invisible theatre, websites and writing.

Suzanne Thorpe is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar whose creative research intersects electronic music, feminist and ecological theory. She interweaves critical listening practices with acoustic ecology, improvisation and technology to craft immersive sound engagements and creative research sites that question circulations of power within human and nonhuman systems.

Stephanie Rothenberg’s interdisciplinary art draws from digital culture, science and economics to explore symbiotic relationships between human designed systems and biological ecosystems. Moving between real and virtual spaces, she engages a variety of media platforms that include interactive installation, drawing, sculpture, video and performance.