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'''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 [https://apass.be/ a.pass] (Brussels), [https://phdarts.eu/ PhdArts] (Leiden), [https://merianmaastricht.nl/ MERIAN] (Maastricht) and regularly teaches at [https://xpub.nl/ 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 ''[http://volumetricregimes.xyz/ Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence]'' (Open Humanities Press, 2022). [https://snelting.domainepublic.net/femke_snelting (2024)]
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'''Femke Snelting''' develops projects at the intersection of publishing, trans*feminism and Free Software. With the [[Brussels]]-based association for art and media, [[Constant]], she experimented with Free Culture as a trans*feminist practice through performative publishing, curatorial processes, poetic software, experimental research and educational prototypes. Her thinking about reuse was sharpened as part of her work with the Libre Graphics Movement in dialogue with the practice of [[Open Source Publishing]] (OSP), a design collective that she co-founded in 2006.
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Currently Femke works in various constellations on re-imagining computational practices to disinvest from technological monoculture and the regime of The Cloud. 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 on what computational infrastructures do to collective life. With Jara Rocha, she edited ''Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence'' (Open Humanities Press, 2022). The publication resulted from a collective disobedient research project, which interrogated the concrete and at the same time fictional entities of “bodies” in the context of volumetric technologies.
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Femke supports artistic research at MERIAN (Maastricht) and contributes to [https://nubo.coop/ Nubo], a cooperative that provides locally hosted, Open Source digital services. In the context of [https://solixg.net/ SoLiXG], she develops Counter Cloud Imaginaries, non-sovereign institutional infrastructures and methods for infra-resistance. With the Infrastructural Rehearsals collective, she collaborates on proposals and interventions that challenge top-down hegemonic approaches to the climate crisis, from green-washing tech capitalists to state-sponsored initiatives. [https://parsejournal.com/authors/femkesnelting/ (2025)]
  
 
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* co-editor, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=21622 DiVersions]'', Brussels: Constant, 2019. {{nl}},{{fr}},{{en}}
 
* co-editor, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=21622 DiVersions]'', Brussels: Constant, 2019. {{nl}},{{fr}},{{en}}
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* co-editor, ''[https://iterations.space/files/iterations-publication.pdf Iterations]'', Brussels: Constant, 2020, [172] pp. [https://iterations.space/?path=/pub/publication.html Website].
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* with [[Helen V. Pritchard]] and [[Jara Rocha]] (The Underground Division), ''[https://ddivision.xyz/rockrepo/ Rock Repo]'', 2020. {{en}}
  
 
* editor, with [[Peter Westenberg]], ''[https://www.books.constantvzw.org/home/viZINEair vi.zine.air]'', Brussels: Constant, 2021, [36] pp, [[Media:Vi.zine.air_2021.pdf|PDF]]. {{en}},{{nl}}
 
* editor, with [[Peter Westenberg]], ''[https://www.books.constantvzw.org/home/viZINEair vi.zine.air]'', Brussels: Constant, 2021, [36] pp, [[Media:Vi.zine.air_2021.pdf|PDF]]. {{en}},{{nl}}
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* editor, with [[Peter Westenberg]], ''[https://www.books.constantvzw.org/home/RDI Reclaiming Digital Infrastructures]'', Brussels: Constant, 2021, 64 pp, [[Media:Reclaiming_Digital_Infrastructures_2021.pdf|PDF]]. {{en}}
 
* editor, with [[Peter Westenberg]], ''[https://www.books.constantvzw.org/home/RDI Reclaiming Digital Infrastructures]'', Brussels: Constant, 2021, 64 pp, [[Media:Reclaiming_Digital_Infrastructures_2021.pdf|PDF]]. {{en}}
  
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* with [[Élodie Mugrefya]], [https://march.international/collectively-setting-conditions-for-re-use/ "Collectively Setting Conditions for Re-Use"], ''MARCH'', Spring 2022. On the [https://constantvzw.org/wefts/cc4r.en.html CC4r] license.
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* with [[Élodie Mugrefya]], [https://march.international/collectively-setting-conditions-for-re-use/ "Collectively Setting Conditions for Re-Use"], ''MARCH'', Spring 2022. On the [https://constantvzw.org/wefts/cc4r.en.html CC4r] license. [https://reuse.constantvzw.org/index.php?title=CC4R_Library_List CC4r Library List]. {{en}}
  
 
* editor, with [[Jara Rocha]] (Possible Bodies), ''[https://volumetricregimes.xyz Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence]'', Open Humanities Press, 2022, 338 pp, [[Media:Possible Bodies eds Volumetric Regimes Material Cultures of Quantified Presence 2022.pdf|PDF]]. [http://www.data-browser.net/db08.html Publisher]. {{en}}
 
* editor, with [[Jara Rocha]] (Possible Bodies), ''[https://volumetricregimes.xyz Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence]'', Open Humanities Press, 2022, 338 pp, [[Media:Possible Bodies eds Volumetric Regimes Material Cultures of Quantified Presence 2022.pdf|PDF]]. [http://www.data-browser.net/db08.html Publisher]. {{en}}
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* co-editor (Crickx research group), ''[http://publifluor.osp.kitchen/ Publi Fluor. Affaires de lettre à Bruxelles. Letterzaken in Brussel. Letter business in Brussels]'', Brussels, 2024, 384 pp. [https://mas.to/@speculoos/112328045103470984 Toot]. [http://www.surfaces-utiles.org/publi-fluor-affaires-de-lettres-a-bruxelles-letterzaken-in-brussel-letter-business-in-brussels.html] {{fr}}/{{nl}}/{{en}}
 
* co-editor (Crickx research group), ''[http://publifluor.osp.kitchen/ Publi Fluor. Affaires de lettre à Bruxelles. Letterzaken in Brussel. Letter business in Brussels]'', Brussels, 2024, 384 pp. [https://mas.to/@speculoos/112328045103470984 Toot]. [http://www.surfaces-utiles.org/publi-fluor-affaires-de-lettres-a-bruxelles-letterzaken-in-brussel-letter-business-in-brussels.html] {{fr}}/{{nl}}/{{en}}
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* with [[Manetta Berends]], [https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/article/view/95105 "Tools shape practice shapes tools..."], ''Teknokultura. Journal of Digital Culture and Social Movements'', Madrid: UCM, November 2024, [[Media:Berends Manetta Snelting Femke 2024 Tools shape practice shapes tools.pdf|PDF]]. A history of two decades of doing graphic design with free, libre and open-source tools.
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* editor, with [[Eva Weinmayr]], [https://parsejournal.com/journal/#ecologies-of-dissemination ''PARSE'' 21: "Ecologies of Dissemination"], Summer 2025. [https://post.lurk.org/@Femke/115310946342908649 Toot].
  
 
* ''see also'' [[The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest#Publications]]
 
* ''see also'' [[The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest#Publications]]
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* [[Eva Weinmayr]], [http://wiki.evaweinmayr.com/index.php/Appendix_2*Interview_with_Femke_Snelting "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, [https://monoskop.org/images/b/b3/Weinmayr_Eva_Noun_to_Verb_An_Investigation_Into_the_Micro-politics_of_Publishing_Through_Artistic_Practice_2020.pdf#page=378 PDF]. Conducted Mar 2020. {{en}}
 
* [[Eva Weinmayr]], [http://wiki.evaweinmayr.com/index.php/Appendix_2*Interview_with_Femke_Snelting "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, [https://monoskop.org/images/b/b3/Weinmayr_Eva_Noun_to_Verb_An_Investigation_Into_the_Micro-politics_of_Publishing_Through_Artistic_Practice_2020.pdf#page=378 PDF]. Conducted Mar 2020. {{en}}
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* [https://rwm.macba.cat/es/podcasts/sonia-344-femke-snelting-2/ "Son(i)a #344: Femke Snelting"], ''Radio Web MACBA'', 28 Jan 2022, 51 min. Podcast.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 21:27, 11 December 2025


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

Femke Snelting develops projects at the intersection of publishing, trans*feminism and Free Software. With the Brussels-based association for art and media, Constant, she experimented with Free Culture as a trans*feminist practice through performative publishing, curatorial processes, poetic software, experimental research and educational prototypes. Her thinking about reuse was sharpened as part of her work with the Libre Graphics Movement in dialogue with the practice of Open Source Publishing (OSP), a design collective that she co-founded in 2006.

Currently Femke works in various constellations on re-imagining computational practices to disinvest from technological monoculture and the regime of The Cloud. 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 on what computational infrastructures do to collective life. With Jara Rocha, she edited Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence (Open Humanities Press, 2022). The publication resulted from a collective disobedient research project, which interrogated the concrete and at the same time fictional entities of “bodies” in the context of volumetric technologies.

Femke supports artistic research at MERIAN (Maastricht) and contributes to Nubo, a cooperative that provides locally hosted, Open Source digital services. In the context of SoLiXG, she develops Counter Cloud Imaginaries, non-sovereign institutional infrastructures and methods for infra-resistance. With the Infrastructural Rehearsals collective, she collaborates on proposals and interventions that challenge top-down hegemonic approaches to the climate crisis, from green-washing tech capitalists to state-sponsored initiatives. (2025)

Publications[edit]

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

Interviews[edit]

  • 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)

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