Hardware and Eco-Feminist Art

Patrícia J. Reis (Ph.D.), born in 1981, is a media artist and researcher exploring human and more-than-human entanglements with technology through feminist hacking, sensory interaction, and embodied interfaces. Her work investigates touch, consent, and care via physical computing, interfaces, and haptic art. She is a board member of the art collective Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory, curating exhibitions and collaborating on art, gender, science, and open-source technology, and leads the arts-based research project Hacking the Body as the Black Box at Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, where she taught in the Digital Arts Department since 2015.Stefanie Wuschitz (Ph.D.), born in 1981, is an artist, activist and researcher investigating strategies to demystify and decolonise technology. She applies critical media practices like feminist hacking, open-source technology and peer production to create interactive installations and animations. She founded the feminist hacklab and art collective »Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory«, which she co-organised until 2023, and conducted several arts-based research projects as PI at Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien and Technische Universität Berlin.