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Mz Baltazar’s Laboratory is a weekly event taking place in [[Vienna]], specifically for persons who call themselves women or trans. If you love to make things, rather than consuming them, meet up at Mz Baltazar’s to share your skills. Mz Baltazar’s participants come from different backgrounds, ages and mindsets to exchange equipement, build circuits, play with DIY electronics and interactive art. We encourage each other to learn new tools and collaborate. All workshops are free in order to offer a fearless, accessible plattform to tinker with male connotated toys. The artwork created at Mz Baltazar’s Laboratory is generated with Open Source Soft- and Hardware. We see the process of demythifying technology as a fun way to articulate ourselves and become creative. Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory sessions also take place within the framework of different Media Art festivals such as the Transmediale in Berlin and at different Art Universities such as the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
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'''Mz*Baltazar's Lab''' aims at generating a culture of fearless making! An environment that fosters creativity, activism and provocative thinking! We try to build an accessible, inclusive, open, safer and radical space, from which to evolve as people and as community. Open Source Technology is at the root of our philosophy, it enables us to share and collaborate without restrictions. We need this space to experiment with things as gender, hardware or our selves.
  
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: "We identify as intersectional feminists, and we come from a variety of educational backgrounds. The lab is intended as a safer space for people who have traditionally been excluded from or have felt unsafe in spaces where science is taught, or technology is being used, and we invite those people (women, and trans* individuals) to participate or give workshops that bring together technology, art, and have a critical understanding of social structures. Our exhibitions and events are open to all audiences, and are intended to support women* in the broad sense of the political terms, and those who work on feminist issues, empowerment, and overturning patriarchy.
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: As a collective we are more or less fluid in our composition. Some of us travel a lot, others need to take care of families and friends, and almost all of us have some paying job. We therefore are flexible and try to support each other in whatever journeys we set out on. We come from a variety of linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and some of us have lived in Vienna longer than others. Working on, in, and with the collective is a fruitful experience, and a challenge, and we are always happy to meet people interested in working with the collective in whatever capacity they can." [https://www.mzbaltazarslaboratory.org/about/ (2024)]
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Currently (August 2024) the collective is composed of:
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: Lale Rodgarkia-Dara – Experimentelle Klangkünstlerin, Lehrerin und Authorin / Sound artist, lecturer and author
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: Patrícia J. Reis – Medien Künstlerin, Forscherin und Lehrerin / media artist, researcher and lecturer
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: Anna Watzinger – Medien Künstlerin und Lehrerin / media artist and lecturer
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: Olivia Jaques – Künstlerin, Forscherin und Lehrerin/ artist, researcher and lecturer
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: Nicole Sabella – Medien Künstlerin, Lehrerin und Professorin, media artist, lecturer and Professor
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Founded 2009.
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* https://www.mzbaltazarslaboratory.org/
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* http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/feminist-hackspace/
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[[Series:Free software]] [[Series:Cyberfeminism]]

Latest revision as of 09:31, 5 September 2024

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Mz*Baltazar's Lab aims at generating a culture of fearless making! An environment that fosters creativity, activism and provocative thinking! We try to build an accessible, inclusive, open, safer and radical space, from which to evolve as people and as community. Open Source Technology is at the root of our philosophy, it enables us to share and collaborate without restrictions. We need this space to experiment with things as gender, hardware or our selves.

"We identify as intersectional feminists, and we come from a variety of educational backgrounds. The lab is intended as a safer space for people who have traditionally been excluded from or have felt unsafe in spaces where science is taught, or technology is being used, and we invite those people (women, and trans* individuals) to participate or give workshops that bring together technology, art, and have a critical understanding of social structures. Our exhibitions and events are open to all audiences, and are intended to support women* in the broad sense of the political terms, and those who work on feminist issues, empowerment, and overturning patriarchy.
As a collective we are more or less fluid in our composition. Some of us travel a lot, others need to take care of families and friends, and almost all of us have some paying job. We therefore are flexible and try to support each other in whatever journeys we set out on. We come from a variety of linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and some of us have lived in Vienna longer than others. Working on, in, and with the collective is a fruitful experience, and a challenge, and we are always happy to meet people interested in working with the collective in whatever capacity they can." (2024)

Currently (August 2024) the collective is composed of:

Lale Rodgarkia-Dara – Experimentelle Klangkünstlerin, Lehrerin und Authorin / Sound artist, lecturer and author
Patrícia J. Reis – Medien Künstlerin, Forscherin und Lehrerin / media artist, researcher and lecturer
Anna Watzinger – Medien Künstlerin und Lehrerin / media artist and lecturer
Olivia Jaques – Künstlerin, Forscherin und Lehrerin/ artist, researcher and lecturer
Nicole Sabella – Medien Künstlerin, Lehrerin und Professorin, media artist, lecturer and Professor

Founded 2009.

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