Ignored Technology Workshop
COACH - PROFESSORSHIP AT THE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, VIENNA
Workshop in collaboration with the Academy of Arts, Architecture and design in Prague
Summer 2022 - Michelle Howard, Eva Sommeregger, Adam hudec, Veronika Miskovicova
A Gestured and Spoken Knowledge Exchange format open to all students where we discuss: the direction technology could have taken if the skills normally attributed to women were given the attention they deserve and their potential to transform technology into a regenerative practice. This format revives an ancient powerful method of knowledge exchange where women sat together to work with yarn and, in these rare moments of communion free of male control, carved out spaces of independent thought. The 17th century Czech philosopher, Comenius, one of the earliest champions of universal education including that of women, said that the beginning of knowledge is in the gesture. While exchanging ideas related to ignored technology, participants will be introduced to different methods of transforming materials into lines that form yarns and further into networks and meshes and sometimes further into communal works.
This is a week-long cross border collaboration between the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna - AKBILD and the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague - UMPRUM with a total of 30 students, (15 from AKBILD and 15 from UMPRUM). Travel and accommodation expenses are covered for students moving to the respective cross border partner. In Vienna this new format takes place in two locations, the Academy of Fine art in Schiller Platz and the Zukunftshof https://www.zukunftshof.at/ in the tenth. In Prague it takes place at the UMPRUM itself.
Dates 19-23 September 2022 – Beginning in Prague on Monday the 19th of September, leaving for Vienna on Wednesday the 21st and finishing in Vienna on the 23rd of September with a public event.
