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Graphic designer and artist. Most of her current work is for the web. Recently switched to Linux after using Apple Macintosh for more than ten years. Active in [[Constant VZW]]. Lives in [[Brussels]].
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|caption = Femke Snelting.<br>Photo: Michael Murtaugh, 2014.
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|birth_place = Netherlands
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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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==Publications==
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* co-editor, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=1868 Tracks in Electr(on)ic Fields]'', Brussels: Constant, 2009, 332 pp. {{en}},{{fr}},{{nl}}
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* co-editor, ''[http://areyoubeingserved.constantvzw.org Are You Being Served? (Notebooks)]'', Brussels: Constant, 2014, 182 pp, [[Media:Are You Being Served Notebooks 2014.pdf|PDF]]. {{en}}
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* co-editor, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=13943 I Think That Conversations Are the Best, Biggest Thing That Software Has to Offer its User]'', Brussels: Constant, 2015, 351 pp. {{en}}
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* co-editor, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=17798 Mondothèque: A Radiated Book / Un livre irradiant / Een irradiërend boek]'', Brussels: Constant, 2016, 225 pp. {{en}},{{fr}},{{nl}}
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* co-editor, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=20190 The Techno-Galactic Guide to Software Observation]'', Brussels: Constant, 2018, 244 pp. {{en}}
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* [https://monoskop.org/images/c/ce/Sollfrank_Cornelia_Hg_Die_schoenen_Kriegerinnen_Technofeministische_Praxis_im_21_Jahrhundert_2018.pdf#page=89 "Codes of Conduct – gemeinsame Werte in alltägliche Praxis umsetzen"], in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=20272 Die schönen Kriegerinnen. Technofeministische Praxis im 21. Jahrhundert]'', ed. Cornelia Sollfrank, Vienna: transversal texts, 2018, pp 89-110. {{de}}
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** [https://monoskop.org/images/d/de/Sollfrank_Cornelia_The_Beautiful_Warriors_Technofeminist_Praxis_in_the_21st_Century_2019.pdf#page=64 "Codes of Conduct: Transforming Shared Values into Daily Practice"], in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=20272 The Beautiful Warriors: Technofeminist Praxis in the 21st Century]'', ed. Cornelia Sollfrank, Colchester: Minor Compositions, 2019, pp 57-72. {{en}}
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* co-editor, [https://networksofonesown.constantvzw.org/etherbox/manual.html ''Networks Of Ones Own'' 1: "Etherbox"], Brussels: Constant, Sep 2018. {{en}}
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* co-editor, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=21622 DiVersions]'', Brussels: Constant, 2019. {{nl}},{{fr}},{{en}}
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* 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 [[Elodie Mugrefya]], ''[https://www.books.constantvzw.org/home/diversions-v2 DiVersions v2]'', Brussels: Constant, 2021, 256 pp, [[Media:Diversions_v2 2021.pdf|PDF]]. {{en}},{{fr}},{{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}}
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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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* 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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* with [[Jara Rocha]] (Possible Bodies), [https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-detail?docid=b-9781350351042&pdfid=9781350351042.ch-5.pdf&tocid=b-9781350351042-chapter5 "So-called Plants"], in ''[[Media:Prophet Jane Pritchard Helen V eds Plants by Numbers Art Computation and Queer Feminist Technoscience 2023.pdf|Plants by Numbers: Art, Computation, and Queer Feminist Technoscience]]'', eds. Jane Prophet and Helen V. Pritchard, Bloomsbury, 2023, pp 85-103.
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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}}
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==Interviews==
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* [[Cornelia Sollfrank]], [http://vimeo.com/109695787 "Performing Graphic Design Practice, Femke Snelting"], 2014, 33 min. Video interview; part of the artistic research project ''Giving What You Don't Have''. {{en}}
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* [[Cornelia Sollfrank]], [http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/forms-of-ongoingness/ "Forms of Ongoingness, Interview with Femke Snelting and spideralex"], Oct 2019, 42 min. Video. [http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Transcript-Femkespider.pdf Transcript]. Conducted Sep 2018 at HEK, Zurich. Part of the [http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/category/working-materials/interviews/ Creating Commons] project. {{en}}
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* [[Geraldine Juárez]], [http://sink.sexy/texts/rendermegrey "Render me grey: Interview with Possible Bodies"], ''Sink'', 30 Oct 2019. {{en}}
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** [http://sink.sexy/texts/rendermegrey "Rendimi grigio: Intervista con Possible Bodies"], ''Sink'', 30 Oct 2019. {{it}}
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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}}
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==See also==
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* [[The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest]] (TITiPI)
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* [[Constant]]
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* [[Open Source Publishing]]
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* [[De Geuzen]]
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==Links==
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* [http://snelting.domainepublic.net/ Website]
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* [[Base:Mastodon|Mastodon:]] [[Mastodon::https://post.lurk.org/@Femke]]
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[[Series:Artists' publishing]] [[Series:Cyberfeminism]] [[Series:Free software]] [[Series:Feminist servers]] [[Series:Libre graphics]]
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Latest revision as of 08:55, 25 April 2024


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[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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Links[edit]

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