In a week now, @demoniox @bobbybrim and I will have the immense joy to introduce Worm:W32/Badtrans@mm, a collective media art (radio, stickers, web) installation within an exhibition at la Villa Arson (Nice, FR) in tribute to Nathalie Magnan (1956-2016). As a key french cyberfeminist artist, researcher, teacher and activist, evolving at the intersection of free software/culture, LGBT rights, internationalism and so on, her memory and legacy means a lot to us. May our virus spread it around! ⤵️
@demoniox @bobbybrim As young queer artists and hacktivists, we're very thankful to Mathilde Belouali for her invitation to create an original piece that will be surrounded by works of so many important figures for us, besides Nathalie Magnan herself, former collaborators of her: Paper Tiger TV and Donna Haraway, Shu Lea Chang, Guerrilla Girls, DeeDee Halleck, Old Boys Network, VNS Matrix, The Yes Men...

@demoniox @bobbybrim
We're very happy to use this opportunity to share documentation, practices and representations that might be familiar to our little hacker community but are too little known outside of it. Tactical medias, free software, privacy are massively unknown and artists have a decisive role to play!

After Nice (until may 31), the exhibition will keep mutating at les Capuçins in Embrun (Hautes-Alpes, from june 25 to aug 23) then to Bétonsalon in Paris (september 25 to december 12).

@demoniox @bobbybrim We created an installation that brings together techniques that we love in our daily lives, within our hackerspaces (the @hackstub and @fluidspace) and collectives.

Thanks to a couple of raspberry pis, two label printers, an FM transmitter and a 4G router, our installation will invite people to involve in the creation of a transgenerational radio stream and turning their environment into a worldwide zine. Now, more than ever: let art claim our mutagen agency!

@bobbybrim @hackstub @fluidspace UPDATE: the stickers repository and the stream are now available on https://micro-ondes.org/badtrans.

As a teaser, here are some stickers you'll be able to print in our installation (we will publish our whole repository within the website of the installation, once everything's ready). These images were gathered by @demoniox out of Nathalie's own collection.

Suite au remplacement d'un câble USB défectueux, le fabuleux stream cyberféministe tissé en continu par notre installation à la Villa Arson est enfin sur le web !

https://micro-ondes.org/badtrans

Il est fait d'alternances entre extraits de nos archives collectives (y compris celles de Nathalie Magnan), de vers d'oreilles et d'enregistrements réalisés par les visiteureuses de l'expo. Comme l'ensemble du dispositif, le flux est voué à muter tout au long de l'année !

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