WordMord poses questions on the relationship between language, technology, trauma and violence. The collective artistic research evolves through workshops, presentations and artworks. Through collaborations with artists, activists and groups working on feminist coding, WordMord seeks to shape an online rhizomatic space as an active feminist archive. At the same time, the project will provide tools and methods towards a poetically subversive meta/para/re-writing of derogatory narratives and consequently of trauma and violence.
Contributors
The networked exchange of knowledge and the free access to information and educational resources are important prerequisites for the future of democracy, culture, and society. The World-Information Institute has been investigating key questions of information societies since the early 1990s and has built an international competence platform for the critical use of information and communication technologies.
Xin Xin is an artist currently making socially-engaged software that explores the possibilities of reshaping language and power relations. Through mediating, subverting, and innovating modes of social interaction in the digital space, Xin invites participants to relate to one another and experience togetherness in new and unfamiliar ways.
Yann Martins is a debugger, programmer, researcher and *core artist currently working at IXDM. His software practices lie at the intersection of debugging, computer music and game design. He has exhibited his works, and done workshops and lectures at the Japan Media Art Awards, H3K, AMRO, Transmediale and at various venues in Florence, Basel and Zurich.
Yen Tzu Chang (b. 1991, TW) is a Taiwanese media artist who studied in Linz, Austria in 2014. Currently, she is based in Taiwan. For Yen Tzu Chang, art is a language for expression. Since 2011, she combines art and technology into her artworks, including interdisciplinary art and experimental performances based on sound installations.
Yoana Buzova is an interdisciplinary artist fascinated by public space and short-lived, neglected moments and objects. In her works, she employs tangibility, low-tech, diy methods and found objects/moments. Yoana has a BA in Photography at The National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria and currently studies
under the master programme of Media Design & Communication Department at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam.
Yves Degoyon (es/fr) is a musician/performer and a free software developer/dealer .
He developped since 2001 some tools for audio and video processing within the frame of Pure Data and some tools for escaping from the software mainstream, promoting self-mediation and inventive ways of communicating and organizing.
he's practising copyleft philosophy under the name of d.R.e.G.S : http://ydegoyon.free.fr
some bits of code ::
G.I.S.S. : http://www.giss.tv
/etc/groups : http://etc-groups.sf.net
(in-)consistently working in(+between) contemporary Arts&Culture, critical Media&Technologies and creative Sport&Recreation...
...recently involved with QueeringWikipedia conf. delayed for 2021.
Zergon (Aleš Hieng) is a DJ, music producer and sound artist from Ljubljana. He is a member of the Synaptic Crew, and, among other things, works in the field of audio-visual performance and in the wide field of DIY electronics. He is interested in club music as well as in sound research and audio-visual experimentation. His sound ranges from techno to IDM, experimental electronics, noise and abstract drone.