Friendz*

Artists & activists

Campaigns & initatives

Austria / Germany

  • fiftitu.at – FIFTITU% ist Anlaufstelle für Künstlerinnen und kulturschaffende Frauen in Österreich, die individuelle Beratung in Anspruch nehmen möchten
  • Be inside Vienna, Edition 17 – Mz*Baltazar’s Lab in the TOP 10 of Vienna’s Off Spaces.
  • frauencafe.com – 1977 gegründetes Café und zentraler Ort der Frauen*bewegungen und feministischer Auseinandersetzungen in Wien
  • fridayexit.at – Friday Exit is a non-profit organisation, consisting of an open collective of artists and curators associated with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. It offers emerging artists and art students a platform for the realisation and visualisation of a variety of different artistic approaches.
  • genderatlas.at – Online-Atlas zur Visualisierung von Daten, Indikatoren und Informationen zu den lebensweltlichen Realitäten von Frauen und Männern in Österreich
  • servus.at – Netzkulturinitiative aus Linz, die als Verein ein unabhängiges Kultur-Datenzentrum betreibt
  • missy-magazine.de – ein Magazin für Frauen, die sich für Popkultur, Politik und Style interessieren
  • anschlaege.at – feministisches Magazin, das seit über 30 Jahren das aktuelle politische, gesellschaftliche und kulturelle Geschehen aus einer konsequent feministischen Perspektive beleuchtet
  • hippocampa.blogsport.de – Blog über das Philosophieren zum Thema Frauendiskriminierung
  • FEM*MAD – A project that deals with the fact, that a lot of MakerSpaces are quite homogenic in their audience – white, young and male. The project addresses this gap and looks for possibilities to make MakerSpaces more inclusive.
  • CATCH – Coordinated by Majken Overgaard, Catch is exploring and developing new ideas at the intersection of technology, art and design

Worldwide

  • takebackthetech.net – global, collaborative campaign project that highlights the problem of tech-related violence against women, together with research and solutions from different parts of the world
  • adainitiative.org – the initiative supported women in open technology and culture through activities such as producing codes of conduct and anti-harassment policies, advocating for gender diversity and teaching ally skills. The initiative closed in 2015, but materials are still freely available.
  • feministfrequency.com – video webseries created by Anita Sarkeesian that explores the representations of women in pop culture narratives
  • railsgirls.com – a global, non-profit volunteer community to give tools and a community for women to understand technology and to build their ideas, also workshops in Vienna
  • girldevelopit.com – nonprofit organization that provides affordable programs for adult women interested in learning web and software development in a judgment-free environment, based in the US
  • harvestworks.org – program to present experimental artworks created in collaboration with our Technology, Engineering, Art and Music (TEAM) Lab, based in New York
  • eyebeam.org – non-profit studio for research, production, education, and inspiration, based in New York
  • ncl.ac.uk/culturelab – research in digital creative practice and film practice at Newcastle University
  • labitat.dk/ – hackerspace in Copenhagen, DK
  • constantvzw.org – a non-profit, artist-run organisation based in Brussels since 1997 and active in the fields of art, media and technology.
  • http://ithare.com/tips-for-getting-girls-involved-in-stem/ – Tips for Getting Girls Involved in STEM
  • redhat.com/en/open-source-stories/because-we-had-to#stefanie   – Interview with Stefanie Wunschitz for Red hat. Red hat – Our mission is to be the catalyst in communities of customers, contributors, and partners creating better technology the open source way.  More than 2 decades ago, Red Hat had a spark of an idea—a vision for developing software differently. We believed that collaboration with an ecosystem of IT leaders, open source advocates, developers, and partners could create a better foundation for the future of IT—Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®.
  • http://fairpaynotfilters.eu/  –  OPEN LETTER FROM ARTISTS, CREATIVE AND CULTURAL WORKERS,  Self-expression is a human right , Internet censorship does not create a fair income.