What is a feminist approach to working with data and data processing systems? How can we expand our relationships with machines by exploring questions of embodiment, agency and performativity? And what can multiple varieties of entanglement between humans and non-humans contribute?

With:

Noor Stenfert Kroese (Ex-Interface Cultures Master Student, who defended last year)

and

Petra Gemeinböck

Petra Gemeinboeck is an artist and researcher based in Melbourne. Her creative practice seeks to trouble and expand our relations with machines by exploring questions of embodiment, agency, and performativity. Petra is an Australia Research Council Future Fellow and Associate Professor at the Centre of Transformative Media Technologies, Swinburne University, Melbourne, where she leads the Human-Robot Experience (HRX) project. She also leads the FWF PEEK project ‘Dancing with the Nonhuman’ at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her artworks have been shown internationally, including at the Ars Electronica Festival, Linz; International Triennial of New Media Art at NAMOC, Beijing; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool; and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.