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'''Femke Snelting''' is an artist and designer, developing projects at the intersection of design, feminism and free software. She is a core member of the [[Brussels]]-based association for arts and media, [[Constant]] (since 2003). She co-initiated the design/research team [[Open Source Publishing]] (OSP) and the Libre Graphics Research Unit to investigate how digital tools and creative practice might co-construct each other. Together with [[Jara Rocha]], [[Seda Gürses]] and [[Miriyam Aouragh]], she takes part in the Darmstadt Delegation, assigned to explore techno-political and socio-emotional relationships between activist and technological practice. She is also a member of the foundation for multi-visual research [http://www.geuzen.org De Geuzen], together with [[Renée Turner]] and [[Riek Sijbring]]. She was an art, science and business fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude and currently teaches at a.pass (Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies) in Brussels and at [[The Piet Zwart Institute]] in Rotterdam.
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'''Femke Snelting''' works as artist and designer, developing projects at the intersection of design, feminism and free software. In various constellations she has been exploring how digital tools and practices might co-construct each other. She is member of [[Constant]], a non-profit, artist-run association for art and media based in [[Brussels]] (since 2003). Since 1997, Constant generates performative publishing, curatorial processes, poetic software, experimental research and educational prototypes in local and international contexts. With [[Jara Rocha]] she activates ''[http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/ Possible Bodies]'', a collective research project that interrogates the concrete and at the same time fictional entities of “bodies” in the context of 3D tracking, modelling and scanning. She co-initiated the design/research team [[Open Source Publishing]] (OSP) and formed [[De Geuzen]], a foundation for multi-visual research, with [[Renée Turner]] and [[Riek Sijbring]]. Femke teaches at the [[Piet Zwart Institute]] (experimental publishing, Rotterdam) and is currently curator of the Research Centre at [http://apass.be/ a.pass] (advanced performance and scenography studies, Brussels).
  
 
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Revision as of 14:24, 14 May 2018


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

Femke Snelting works as artist and designer, developing projects at the intersection of design, feminism and free software. In various constellations she has been exploring how digital tools and practices might co-construct each other. She is member of Constant, a non-profit, artist-run association for art and media based in Brussels (since 2003). Since 1997, Constant generates performative publishing, curatorial processes, poetic software, experimental research and educational prototypes in local and international contexts. With Jara Rocha she activates Possible Bodies, a collective research project that interrogates the concrete and at the same time fictional entities of “bodies” in the context of 3D tracking, modelling and scanning. She co-initiated the design/research team Open Source Publishing (OSP) and formed De Geuzen, a foundation for multi-visual research, with Renée Turner and Riek Sijbring. Femke teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute (experimental publishing, Rotterdam) and is currently curator of the Research Centre at a.pass (advanced performance and scenography studies, Brussels).

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