FWD: Digitales, call for papers/tales

Sept. 25, 2003

Type: discussion

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DIGITALES - 3rd edition
CALL FOR PAPERS/TALES

Tell the stories * of women and technologies

Rather than falling into techno-phobia or becoming
techno-fans,
"Digitales"
has always approached digital techniques with a
critical and creative
eye.
They exist, they are here, so we might as well use
them, understand
them and
make use of them in a way that will serve our
objectives.

We cannot ignore the history of information
technologies, their
mythology,
symbols, heroines, male or female. The history and
mythology being
transmitted still influences the way they are written
and taught. One
often
hears that girls are not interested in technical
things because they
are too
cold and too systematic, but what about telling them
that one of the
pioneers of computing wanted to create a machine that
would enable him
to
contact his lost loved one and that he died like Snow
White after
eating a
poisoned apple : isn't that a beautiful fairy tale?

Understanding the languages and structures in this new
grammar, and
maybe
even imagining others. How these standards and
structures have been
able to
exclude or involve certain types of people, because of
certain types of
reflexes and expectations, but by discovering that,
also discover the
possibility of re-writing and inventing processes.

We would like to receive stories and herstories about
what we call the
"founding myths": Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, Grace
Hopper, etc.

And also tales of/about women and techniques

* Send a ' fragment ' or a whole story in words and/or
images on one A4
format page; RTF or JPG files, 300k maximum, to be
uploaded ONLY on
http://www.digitales-online.org/tales

Deadline : 15 November 2003

Questions? [email protected]

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