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A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers (ATNOFS) publication

Wendy Van Wynsberghe — 2023-04-24T12:15:38Z

A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers (ATNOFS) was a collaborative project formed around intersectional, feminist, ecological servers whose communities travelled between each other in 2022 to share and extend their knowledges through live gatherings. ATNOFS argued that such platforms and tools are necessary to navigate our communications and cultural growth beyond the current media oligopolies, and democratise cultural and political expression outside obscure, bureaucratic algorithms and advertising monetisation.

The project responded to the need for continuity, interrelation and support for self-hosted and self-organised computational infrastructures in The Netherlands (Varia, LURK), Romania (hypha), Austria (esc mkl), Greece (Feminist Hack Meetings) and Belgium (Constant). We are excited to share with you the documentation of these sessions.

You can download or print the publication from any of the following urls:

– https://atnofs.constantvzw.org/
– https://hub.vvvvvvaria.org/rosa/ATNOFS/
– https://www.ooooo.be/atraversalnetworkoffeministservers/
– https://systerserver.net/ATNOFS/
– https://txt.lurk.org/ATNOFS/
– https://zoiahorn.anarchaserver.org/ATNOFS/
– https://hypha.ro/ATNOFS
– https://varia.zone/ATNOFS
– https://bleu255.com/ marloes/txts/ATNOFS/
– https://psaroskalazines.gr/zines/ATNOFS/
– https://esc.mur.at/en/werk/atnofspublication

This project was supported by the Culture of Solidarity fund and the Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie.
Co-funded by the European Union
With the support of Flanders Arts Institute

View online : https://atnofs.constantvzw.org/

ATNOFS: chapter 6 - Constant

Wendy Van Wynsberghe — 2022-09-29T16:46:47Z

A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers is a collaborative project researching and experimenting with a server's intersectional, feminist and ecological potential, whose communities travel between each other to share and extend their skills through live gatherings.

The sixth encounter of the series will be hosted by Constant on the 1st and 2nd of October.

We will work on the documentation of the previous 5 chapters with documentalist/facilitator/artist Olivier Heinry to help disseminate the multivoiced complexity of ATNOFS. We will prepare the content for the online publication. Each chapter will summarize their contribution to the travelling server and work together for a documentation handover, including legibility and openness for larger communities. A hands-on moment is foreseen, where we will install a server, or two, or... The notes on this install party will also be made available publicly.

In the framework of Erasmus+ and supported by Kunstenpunt

ATNOFS: chapter 5 - Feminist Hack Meetings

Elodie — 2022-09-01T09:11:17Z

A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers is a collaborative project formed around intersectional, feminist, ecological servers whose communities travel between each other to share and extend their skills through live gatherings

The fifth encounter of the series will be hosted by the Feminist Hack Meetings in Athens on the 9 and 10 of September.

During the Feminist Hack Meetings in Athens, we would like to meet and connect with feminist local groups, and learn/reflect/imagine together, under a feminist lens, about our interactions with technology as a tool for communicating, publishing, documenting and mapping.

Two groups will present their work and tools, and their approaches to technology:

WordMord : https://wordmord-ur.la/
Centre of New Media and Feminist Public Practices: https://www.centrefeministmedia.arch.uth.gr/

More info: https://fhm.varia.zone/index.php?title=Main_Page

View online : https://fhm.varia.zone/index.php?ti...

ATNOFS: Chapter 4 - ESC

Wendy Van Wynsberghe — 2022-05-24T16:13:57Z

The fourth encounter of the series will be hosted at esc, Graz.

Esc medien kunst labor (AU) will use their expertise as a media art laboratory which facilitates encounters between artists, scientists, theoreticians and programmers from the most varied disciplines.

In a core team of 5 people, we will develop a sort of travelling feminist server swarm, that shall consist of a mixture of real functioning hardware most probably based on raspberry pi and imaginative and speculative parts and ingredients that suggest a fiction of interrelated channels of exchange.

Enrollment is no longer possible - announcement for information purposes. The documentation of this project will be published at the end of 2022.

View online : https://esc.mur.at/en/projekt/trave...

ATNOFS: Chapter 3 - LURK

Wendy Van Wynsberghe — 2022-04-28T16:27:54Z

The second encounter of the series will be hosted by LURK at VARIA, Rotterdam, entitled "How to run a small social networking site with your friends".

Whether it is because of online surveillance, doomscrolling, curiosity, the toxic dynamics, the lack of reach, the risk of accounts being removed, the desire for self-governance, etc, there have been multiple reasons to explain why the past years have seen a renewed interest in alternative social media platforms. New federated networked applications and protocols have been developed in tandem to provide similar services as platforms like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. In particular, the free software Mastodon, has gained traction among small communities of practice interested in experimenting with social media under their own control, as it allows them to decide how to run it, why, and for whom. These self-organized spaces however can still be part of a larger network, called the Fediverse.

*However*, while installing such a software is not necessarily the most obvious thing to do, the real challenge only starts *after the installation*, when the software is up and running and all your friends, colleagues, peers, guests, are starting to make use of it.

What does it take to run a Mastodon instance? How does online federation work? What are the politics of the Fediverse? What does it take to moderate an instance? We will try to cover it all, from writing terms and code of conduct, to dealing with account reports or problematic users. But also, how to financially sustain your work? What are ways to make it fun and specific to you? What are further opportunities and threats when doing this?

Enrollment is no longer possible - announcement for information purposes

ATNOFS: Chapter 2 - HYPHA

dickreckard — 2022-04-04T17:30:43Z

The second encounter of the series will be hosted by HYPHA, a Romanian initiative aimed at building a digitally non-aligned local community. HYPHA's main urgencies are the questioning of classist and gendered vocabularies within the technological apparatus, the support of knowledge-situated collective emancipation, and the engagement with new-materialist, eco-feminist and hacktivist possibilities of software actualizations and embodiments.

The joining networks ( Varia, LURK, Constant, Feminist Hack Meetings, and esc ) will dedicate two days to develop these ideas in theory and practice. The discussion will start from considering issues such as digital extractivism, machine learning, housing rights, queer and feminist approaches understood in the local context.
By engaging in dialogue with local activists and artists, the potentials of alternative tools for daily practice and for the dissemination of knowledge will be considered, concluding with a hands-on workshop to share the technical knowledge necessary to establish some basics for local networked infrastructure.

ATNOFS - A Transversal Network of Feminist Servers

Donatella — 2022-03-01T11:50:33Z

A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers (ATNOFS) was a collaborative project formed around intersectional, feminist, ecological servers. Understanding servers as computers that host space and services for communities around them, this project existed inside, and in between, roaming servers and different networks. Its decentralized programme was developed in 6 chapters hosted in 5 different locations (The Netherlands, Romania, Austria, Greece, Belgium) throughout 2022.

ATNOFS was initiated by Varia in collaboration with LURK, HYPHA, esc medien kunst labor, Feminist Hack Meetings, and Constant.

This project was co-funded by the Culture of Solidarity Fund of the European Cultural Foundation.

ATNOFS: Chapter 1 - Varia

Donatella — 2022-02-22T15:32:19Z

In the first chapter, hosted in Varia, we will focus on tools and methods to make space for understanding what feminist publishing infrastructures could be. During the weekend of March 26 and 27, the partners involved in the project - Varia, LURK, Constant, HYPHA, Feminist Hack Meetings, and esc - will be experimenting with publishing infrastructures together. The tools and methods that will emerge can later be used for further knowledge sharing as the project moves location and the programme evolves.

The weekend in Varia will involve a public moment where we will share traces of the project, and extend the collective learning to another layer of audience. And next to that, ATNOFS will be documented through Rosa, a traveling server that will also make the gathered material public at the end of the year.

View online : https://varia.zone/en/atnofs-varia.html