[oldboys] **DIGITALES**CALL FOR TALES**

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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? Info@constantvzw.com


DIGITALES ­ 3rd dition
21- 24/01/2004
10 & 30 rue du Méridien 1210 Brussels
If you want to receive the programm when it is ready ->
info@digitales-online.org

Digitales are full days of meetings/participation on work, knowledge,
skills, experiences, dreams and questioning; this time of technological and
feminist activity and continual exchange could give birth to a virtual
network.


Objectives

Finding a common language to provoke thoughts and to work out a practice
which will stimulate women's action in contemporary society and  bring
awareness of the concept of gender to the debates on new technologies
through:
- technological and creative initiation
- understanding of the work tool
- the critical analysis of new technologies
- the discovery and the construction of new images and interactions
- constructing history, means of transmitting experience

Bringing together those who:
- have or want to use technologies to earn their living and to provide for
the needs of a family
- have professional and technical skills on the cutting edge of information
and communication technology and alternative systems
- undertake university research in various disciplines and in various
countries,
- create their artistic work by using 'traditional' or 'new' media (film,
video, Internet, digital support)
- are interested by feminist thought on contemporary society.

Partners
Four organising associations, three in Brussels and one in Antwerp
- Interface3 asbl: a centre and a team for vocational training and
integration of women in new technologies;
- Sophia: a coordination network for feminist/gender studies
- Constant vzw: an organisation linking artistic and theoretical thinking on
the Internet and digital communication
-The Policy Research Centre on Equal Opportunities: a consortium of the
University of Antwerp (UA) and the University Centre of Limburg (LUC).  The
Centre occupies an intermediary position between a research institute,
public administration and civil society.
Guests
-Htmelles- Festival Maid in Cyberspace from Montréal, an annual and
international festival of media arts

Links
http://www.ada-online.be
http://www.digitales-online.org
http://www.sophia.be
http://www.constantvzw.com/digitales
http://www.steunpuntgelijkekansen.be
http://www.htmlles.net


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