Author: Goda Klumbytė

Goda is researching machine learning and she is interested in feminist theory and continental philosophy. Her mother tongue is Lithuanian. She is currently in the process of learning German and forgetting Dutch. She mostly survives on philosophy memes and science fiction books.

TBD research day on xenofeminism

banner of the xenofeminism edition of the reading group

Over the past months the TBD Reading Group, hosted by GeDIS and Sociology of Diversity at the University of Kassel, read Laboria Cubonik’s  “Xenofeminst Manifesto” (2015) and Helen Hester’s follow-up monograph “Xenofeminism” (2018). Xenofeminism links technomaterialist, anti-naturalist and gender abolitionist perspectives on processes of bodily […]

Lost in translation? Invitation to address the challenges of interdisciplinary cooperation in the FAT community

This post was originally published on Medium on 11 December 2019 and was written by Aviva de Groot, Danny Lämmerhirt, Evelyn Wan, Goda Klumbyte, Mara Paun, Phillip Lücking, and Shazade Jameson Introduction: The short of it The rapid deployment of complex computational, data-intense infrastructures profoundly […]

Diffractive Readings: Cyberfeminism_ NewMaterialism_ Computing [video]

Trans-feminist techno-materialist imaginaries

In September we – Goda, Loren and Claude – presented a paper at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference in New Orleans. We were (digitally) part of an amazing panel “Feminist Technoscience by Other Means: Reconfiguring Research Practices for World-Making Beyond the […]

Technopolitics, practices and strategies at the intersection of computing/theory/arts – last CF+ Lab Meeting

"Knots and Nodes" - artwork by Isabel Paehr

In April we held the last Lab Meeting of the CF+ project, for which we decided to invite some of the people who have been continuously involved in debates around this project and became part of the CF+ network, to present their own strategies, practices […]

Doing things together with computational practice and feminist theory [audio]

Femke Snelting giving a talk during CF+ Lab Meeting, March 14, 2019.

In March GeDIS Lab & ITeG hosted a third Lab Meeting of the CF+ project “m-e-t-h-o-d-o-l-o-g-i-e-s (or not): doing things together with computational practice and feminist theory”. We were very excited to collaborate with artist and designer Femke Snelting, who not only gave a talk […]

Register now! m-e-t-h-o-d-o-l-o-g-i-e-s (or not): doing things together with computational practice and feminist theory

On March 14th, 2019, we will be organising the 3rd Lab Meeting of the project “Reconfiguring Computing Through Cyberfeminism and New Materialism” (CF+) with artist and researcher Femke Snelting! At this lab-meeting we will discuss m-e-t-h-o-d-o-l-o-g-i-e-s (or not) for knotting together the expertise of artists, […]