WOMAN OPEN TECH LAB holds an annual technology research group. RTC(Reading Technology Critically), which has been held since June as a meeting in 2022, is a technology criticism project that determines one technology for each participating artist, researches it, connects it with creation, or prepares an independent perspective on technology. In September 2022, during Korea Art Week, “A Quick Recap” was held as a midterm presentation to share research topics of participating artists such as workshops and talks. From January 27th to 30th, 2023, we would like to open the “Home Directory” for four days and wrap up our six-month-long journey. In a multi-user OS, the independent space allocated to each user is called the ‘home directory’. The research materials prepared by the participating artists will be placed in the lab “separately and together." Feel free to drop by, and detect a glittering intersection between topics.
A hand holding a tool, A tool moving a hand is a book that contains results from research individually conducted by the Reading Technology Critically members. A hand holding a tool, A tool moving a hand includes not only the result of the writing workshop From Rhythm to Arrangement, arranged in September 2022 to share each member’s works in progress but also some readings about writing with various tools such as GPT-3, ChatGPT, word processor, HTML, CSS....
The project is about misogyny, which has become a play culture in the Internet community.
Online hate speech has evolved in a way that constantly twists its meaning. Therefore, it is almost impossible to establish a clear standard of Cleanbot that can distinguish hate expressions that require contextual interpretation. What can we do if the Cleanbot’s ability to filter out only the usual hate speech cannot completely eliminate online hate?...
The term ‘Post-privacy’ emerged from the recognition that traditional concepts of privacy from a pre-digital era were insufficient to understand or address the current issues of privacy. The post-privacy world asks everyone to compromise privacy for ‘technology’, but not everyone pays the same price. Understanding what kind of knowledge digital privacy is, and ‘solving’ it, is not only a matter of cybersecurity but also inequality and hate. How can we understand privacy, what can this fatigue of understanding it become?...
The concept is to bring part of the artist’s studio into the home directory space. The space consists of various devices that do not know which house’s kitchen or studio it is. List bioplastic samples of various shapes and colors made from various ingredients studied by the artist himself, archive materials of various bioplastic recipes, and consider the possibility of blending with other media in the recipe.
Bio-Plastic Making Workshop with Potato Starch The event of Jan 27...
Technology that lets us “speak” to the dead has been a mainstay of science fiction for decades. Now it has become a reality—and an increasingly accessible one, thanks to rapid advances in AI large language models. Digital clones of our beloveds could forever change the politics of life and death.
There’s something human about the urge to remember the people we love who passed away. As avatars that people feel a personal connection with have staying power, how do we deal with loss today?...