Announcing the next Electric Tech Carnival: Call for contributions

Things can break!

8–13 Octo­ber 2018

XM24 – Bologna, Italy

Call for contri­bu­ti­ons

We are very happy to announce the next Eclec­tic Tech Carni­val, a femi­nist tech skill-share event. The /ETC is a gathe­ring of people*, who criti­cally use/study/share/improve every­day infor­ma­tion tech­no­lo­gies in the context of the free soft­ware and open hard­ware move­ments.

We are a collec­tive body of femi­nists with a parti­cu­lar history, who chew on the roots of control and domi­na­tion.

The Eclec­tic Tech Carni­val began in 2001, inspi­red by the hack meetings that star­ted taking place at the end of the 90’s. Spread Over seve­ral days, people meet in real life to talk about compu­ters, networks, program­ming, and the poli­tics behind it all, and to share crea­tive work (art needs to get a mention here!).

The Eclec­tic Tech Carni­val is unique in that it has a femi­nist appro­ach that expands the hack meetings’ reflec­tion on poli­tics with an inter­sec­ti­o­na­list point of view. Women, trans, gender­queer, gender-fluid, and inter­sex people will popu­late it along­side any other crea­ture who acti­vely embra­ces femi­nism and the criti­que of autho­rity and oppres­sion.

Besi­des works­hops, there will be space for people to be poli­ti­cally, perfor­ma­ti­vely and artis­ti­cally active. Let us create future scena­rios where the happy ending is a small and local world, based on soli­da­rity and commu­nity.

“To join the event, we invite you to contri­bute – orga­nize a works­hop, give a talk, surprise us with your amazing perfor­mance or your spark­ling insta­lla­tion, do Somet­hing­Cri­ti­cal (and femi­nist, of course!).”

Everyone is a volun­teer and will take on tasks during the event, for exam­ple helping in the kitchen, staf­fing the infor­ma­tion desk, clea­ning the ablu­tion blocks, trans­la­ting for each other, infras­truc­ture admi­nis­tra­tion, and so on.

What we offer:

• a network of femi­nists, with the most varied expe­ri­en­ces
• infras­truc­ture with work spaces and equip­ment
• good and affor­da­ble food
• a wide room where people can sleep for free

Please contact us at any time, star­ting imme­di­a­tely.

Email address: info @ eclec­tic­te­ch­car­ni­val . org

There is also a mailin­glist: https://lists.eclec­tic­te­ch­car­ni­val.org/cgi-bin/mail­man/listinfo/etc-int