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Flight to Canada

Muhammad Shahid - 03.10.2021 - 19:17

Salon August 10, 2021: Coding Coding Coding

What are you working on? What could we make happen?

Hannah Ackermans - 11.10.2021 - 14:40

Salon September 14, 2021: Making Digital Glamour: Queer Femme Internet Aesthetics

This fun, playful, one-hour workshop explores the queer femme aesthetic--and all are welcome! What’s a queer femme aesthetic? I conceptualize it as a hyper-saturated, self-conscious, postmodern, performative femininity. Glitter, sequins, lip gloss, nail polish, dELiA*s magazine, ‘90s neon pink and slime green. Digitally, the queer femme aesthetic was innovated in spaces like Tumblr and MySpace, with tools like Blingee and Angelfire Dollz. Of course, there is no one definition of a queer/femme digital aesthetic, though I’d argue that the nail polish emoji is pretty key! Queer femme internet aesthetics often intentionally subvert minimalist design principles and usability heuristics, making the user aware of the platform/medium rather than concealing it.

Hannah Ackermans - 11.10.2021 - 14:52

Salon: October 12, 2021: Share to Heal Workshop

Aims of this workshop

· To share a personal, social or collective story which has impacted us.

· To exchange stories, which will be randomly assigned to each participant, with the aim of healing the issues, as set out in the story, and take them as inspiration to develop creative proposals.

· Community building through meaningful conversations

The platform helps to gather, distribute the stories amongst the participants by shuffling them. Each participant is allocated a story from another participant and they are given some time to read the story and come up with a creative proposal, inspired by the issues in question originated from the text, to create a generative poem, create a podcast, an audio piece, a blog, an interactive co-creative piece… you can be as creative and imaginative as you want in creating a proposal!

Hannah Ackermans - 18.10.2021 - 15:54