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audrey samson - Canada
media artist and teacher
travelling from-> rotterdam, NL
attendance-> IRL
bio-> BFA Major in Design Art from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 2002, M.A. Media Design from the Piet Zwart Institute, 2007, member of genderchangers, a collective of women which promote the exchange of technical skills between women, member of Aether9 collective exploring the dramaturgical possibilities of remote realtime storytelling. Teaches at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the WDKA. Has exhibited in Canada, the UK, the Netherlands and Austria. http://www.ideacritik.com/ http://1904.cc/ http://genderchangers.org/
CV-> [1]
reni hofmueller - graz/austria
media artist and acitvist
participating IRL
RH 19.6.1966 - artist, musician, composer, performer, organizer and activist in the fields of usage of (new) media, technology and politics in general, engaged in development of contemporary art. http://renitentia.mur.at/
hosted /etc2005 in Graz, Austria at ESC im LABOR since then part of the /etc-devel team
Donna Metzlar
(1969) has a varied background. The one aspect which remains constant is her commitment to social change. Over the past 7 years she has actively been involved in the Genderchangers, a community of women enamoured with technology, especially free software, open source hardware and the universal interoperability of systems. She takes a lead role in the annual event the Eclectic Tech Carnival (/ETC) and the Systerserver. This server is run by women only, hosts feminist websites and offers women interested in gaining system administration skills a work experience space.
While having studied English Literature and Sociology in Cape Town she always dreamed of having a trade, a skill set with which one can travel, and which involves working with people. Hence, after moving to Rotterdam she followed and completed a degree in Nursing. Wanting to do more with her fascination with the upcoming world of ICT she took on a helpdesk job. From here she's grown into some sysadmin skills, community advocacy, creating and giving courses and web work. Her skills in ICT are self-taught.
Taliesin (Tali) Smith
from St. John's, Canada
(1968) Tali helped found the GCA and was the first facilitator for the women-only Computer Hardware courses in Amsterdam. She was also one of the first drafters of the GCA Computer Hardware manual. Little did she know that tinkering with computer hardware and reading about it on the internet would be the catalyst to a career in IT. After leaving Amsterdam in 2003, Tali remained active in the network by helping organize the Eclectic Tech Carnival (/etc) and helping with the installation and set-up of systerserver .net . In 2005, she was finally able to attend the /etc that was held in Graz, Austria.
After moving across Canada and settling in St. John's on Canada's east coast, Tali's network activities slowed down and she decided to go back to school to get some certification papers. She completed a post-baccalaureate diploma in ICT at Memorial University and discovered her true passion was standards-based web development. She now builds web sites and would love to be at the Winter Camp to get re-connected with the GCA and start sharing again.
skype: talilief
Uschi Reiter
Linz, Austria
Us(c)hi Reiter studied Art and Communication at the Kunstuniverstät Linz. As artist, graphic designer and web developer with a special interesst in net.activism and audio-visual communication she has been collaborating with different groups and artists since 1998.
Since June 2005 Reiter runs the non-profit cultural backbone organisation servus.at/Kunst & Kultur im Netz. servus.at is a cultural network-based initiative in Linz, Austria. In running its own technical infrastructure, servus.at offers virtual and physical access opportunities for artists and cultural producers. One of the main objectives of servus.at is to implement the ideas of a "free society" in a daily practice of cultural and artistic production dealing with technology and to develop a network of trust. For four years Uschi Reiter has been running the non-profit initiative, focusing on aspects of gender in a male dominated field.
2007 servus.at was hosting /etc. Uschi Reiter and Aileen Derieg worked together as organizers.
http://www.servus.at http://www.firstfloor.org/ur/blog
Aileen Derieg
Linz, Austria
Translator specializing in contemporary art and new media
As a translator I started out translating computer books, which led to an interest in Free Software, because that seemed to fit best with my many years of involvement in feminist activism.
Co-organizer of /etc 2007 in Linz
Website: http://eliot.at
Amaia Castro
Madrid, Spain
I have a degree in computers and currently I'm a Ruby on Rails web developer and gnu/linux sysadmin at the company (a workers cooperative) I founded with two other women (http://www.dabne.net).
I've been involved with the /ETC since 2003, sometimes as organizer and sometimes as participant. I'm a member of DevChix, Linuxchix and Systers, although I don't participate much there.
I was a member of wh2001/Cielito Lindo hacklab in Madrid until it closed in 2006. I've been a regular participant in the spanish Hackmeetings since 2003. Now I'm starting to get involved in a new hacklab in Madrid, the Hamlab at Patio Maravillas squat.
I'm almost sure that I'll be participating IRL in the Winter Camp, but there's one thing that could prevent me to go and it's that my partner has to get surgery sometime around february-march, we don't know the dates yet, depends on hospital waiting lists and such, so if it comes out that the dates are the same as WinterCamp i'll stay in Madrid won't be able to participate.
homepage: http://amaiac.net
twitter: http://twitter.com/amaiac
jabber: amaia@amaiac.net or amaiacg@jabber.org
skype: amaia.cg
Petra Timmermans
Canada / The Netherlands
(1963) Sex worker rights activist and coordinator of the International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE) http://www.sexworkeurope.org. Part-time staff at the Prostitution Information Centre, Amsterdam and freelance lecturer. First round: Ontario College of Art and Design, second round: University of Toronto BA Criminology, Law & Ethics (as if they go together), third round: MA Sociology University of Amsterdam (but then I got bored).
The ICRSE is a pan-europe network. Started in 2005 after a conference in Brussels and there I was a migrant needing work and keen. All of our campaigning efforts are coordinated through our website and listservs and by default I became responsible for this task. Over the last few years I have learned a lot and through meeting other women via GenderChangers and the ETC camps I have learned, felt supported in my learning and become more passionate about ICT. Over the last two years this has given me the confidence to share what I have learned by organising skills training workshops for sex workers who want to engage more in global activism through the use of technolog(ies). I just built/designed my first simple website using html/css (thanks genderchangers workshops) ok I borrowed the initial design but then why re-invent the wheel. http://www.sexworkeurope.org/resources4sw/index.html
and I like to quilt...
Participating Online
helen varley jamieson
aotearoa/new zealand
theatre artist, writer, web queen ...
travelling from -> 12 hours ahead in cyberspace
attendance -> remote
bio -> helen first heard about gender changers & the /etc in 2003, & attended the 2004 /etc in belgrade. since then she has been actively involved in a remote capacity, assisting with fundraising, organisation, publicity and web site maintenance, and teaching UpStage workshops remotely at the /etc. helen is a founding member of Avatar Body Collision, a globally dispersed performance group who have been experimenting with the creation of live performance on the internet since 2001, & she recently completed master of arts (research) in cyberformance from QUT (Brisbane).
Anna
Berlin, Germany
It looks like I will have to work during that week, so won't come
bio -> Anna participated remotely in the first /etc's due to the fact that she has two children who needed her attention more at the time. She participated in two real life /etc's in Linz and Amsterdam and wants more. She was and is active with Indymedia and specifically the Indymedia women's networking which resulted in the urgent need to organise to increase the number and visibility of women in media activism. She has spent some energy trying to network between the different existing groups and networks of women & IT in Europe, with not much success so far. She writes, reports on activist issues and writes a weblog on issues of privacy, data protection and surveillance.
Vesna Manojlovic (becha)
Amsterdam (originally from Belgrade)
Trainer and public speaker at RIPE NCC.
I used to be interested in hacking, cyber-feminism, and social justice - but am now part-time idealist and other parts of my time I spend working and mothering my two kids (right now aged 3 and 5).
LinkedIn, Facebook, Dopplr profiles...
http://Blogger.xs4all.nl/becha
http://www.ripe.net/meetings/ncc-bios.html#vesna
(I'm not sure if I will take part physically or remotely in March! Depends on too many things...)