Femke Snelting

Femke Snelting. Photo: Michael Murtaugh, 2014.
Born	Netherlands
Lives in	Brussels, Belgium

Femke Snelting develops projects at the intersection of publishing, feminisms, and free software. In various constellations she works on re-imagining computational practices to disinvest from technological monoculture. With Miriyam Aouragh, Seda Gürses and Helen Pritchard she runs The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest, a trans-practice gathering of activists, artists, engineers and theorists. Ecologies of Dissemination (with Eva Weinmayr) is a research project on feminist and decolonial approaches to Open Access. Femke supports artistic research at a.pass (Brussels), PhdArts (Leiden), MERIAN (Maastricht) and regularly teaches at XPUB (MA experimental publishing, Rotterdam). With Constant, association for arts and media, she initiated collective research projects, digital tools, methods and publications until 2021. With Jara Rocha she edited Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence (Open Humanities Press, 2022). (2024)

Publications

• co-editor, Tracks in Electr(on)ic Fields, Brussels: Constant, 2009, 332 pp. (English),(French),(Dutch)

• co-editor, Are You Being Served? (Notebooks), Brussels: Constant, 2014, 182 pp, PDF. (English)

• co-editor, I Think That Conversations Are the Best, Biggest Thing That Software Has to Offer its User, Brussels: Constant, 2015, 351 pp. (English)

• co-editor, Mondothèque: A Radiated Book / Un livre irradiant / Een irradiërend boek, Brussels: Constant, 2016, 225 pp. (English),(French),(Dutch)

• co-editor, The Techno-Galactic Guide to Software Observation, Brussels: Constant, 2018, 244 pp. (English)

• "Codes of Conduct – gemeinsame Werte in alltägliche Praxis umsetzen", in Die schönen Kriegerinnen. Technofeministische Praxis im 21. Jahrhundert, ed. Cornelia Sollfrank, Vienna: transversal texts, 2018, pp 89-110. (German)
  • "Codes of Conduct: Transforming Shared Values into Daily Practice", in The Beautiful Warriors: Technofeminist Praxis in the 21st Century, ed. Cornelia Sollfrank, Colchester: Minor Compositions, 2019, pp 57-72. (English)

• co-editor, Networks Of Ones Own 1: "Etherbox", Brussels: Constant, Sep 2018. (English)

• co-editor, DiVersions, Brussels: Constant, 2019. (Dutch),(French),(English)

• co-editor, Iterations, Brussels: Constant, 2020, [172] pp. Website.

• with Helen V. Pritchard and Jara Rocha (The Underground Division), Rock Repo, 2020. (English)

• editor, with Peter Westenberg, vi.zine.air, Brussels: Constant, 2021, [36] pp, PDF. (English),(Dutch)

• editor, with Elodie Mugrefya, DiVersions v2, Brussels: Constant, 2021, 256 pp, PDF. (English),(French),(Dutch)

• editor, with Peter Westenberg, Reclaiming Digital Infrastructures, Brussels: Constant, 2021, 64 pp, PDF. (English)

• with Élodie Mugrefya, "Collectively Setting Conditions for Re-Use", MARCH, Spring 2022. On the CC4r license. CC4r Library List. (English)

• editor, with Jara Rocha (Possible Bodies), Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence, Open Humanities Press, 2022, 338 pp, PDF. Publisher. (English)

• with Jara Rocha (Possible Bodies), "So-called Plants", in Plants by Numbers: Art, Computation, and Queer Feminist Technoscience, eds. Jane Prophet and Helen V. Pritchard, Bloomsbury, 2023, pp 85-103.

• co-editor (Crickx research group), Publi Fluor. Affaires de lettre à Bruxelles. Letterzaken in Brussel. Letter business in Brussels, Brussels, 2024, 384 pp. Toot. [1] (French)/(Dutch)/(English)

• with Manetta Berends, "Tools shape practice shapes tools...", Teknokultura. Journal of Digital Culture and Social Movements, Madrid: UCM, November 2024, PDF. A history of two decades of doing graphic design with free, libre and open-source tools.

• see also The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest#Publications

Interviews

• Cornelia Sollfrank, "Performing Graphic Design Practice, Femke Snelting", 2014, 33 min. Video interview; part of the artistic research project Giving What You Don't Have. (English)

• Cornelia Sollfrank, "Forms of Ongoingness, Interview with Femke Snelting and spideralex", Oct 2019, 42 min. Video. Transcript. Conducted Sep 2018 at HEK, Zurich. Part of the Creating Commons project. (English)

• Geraldine Juárez, "Render me grey: Interview with Possible Bodies", Sink, 30 Oct 2019. (English)
  • "Rendimi grigio: Intervista con Possible Bodies", Sink, 30 Oct 2019. (Italian)

• Eva Weinmayr, "Interview with Femke Snelting", in Weinmayr, Noun to Verb: An Investigation Into the Micro-politics of Publishing Through Artistic Practice, Gothenburg: University of Gothenburg, 2020, PDF. Conducted Mar 2020. (English)

• "Son(i)a #344: Femke Snelting", Radio Web MACBA, 28 Jan 2022, 51 min. Podcast.

See also

• The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI)
• Constant
• Open Source Publishing
• De Geuzen

Links

• Website
• Mastodon: https://post.lurk.org/@Femke
• Possible Bodies, with Jara Rocha
• The Underground Division, with Jara Rocha and Helen V. Pritchard