Picture by Femke Reijerman

BEYOND THE BINARY

JUN 2021

According to the Gender Gap report of 2020, only 3 out of 20 workers in tech are women. Beyond the Binary started as a podcast that discusses the gender gap and the relation between women and technology. Exploring what our understanding of what technology is – like innovative, fast, mathematical, rational – and what femininity is, and how these understandings create a gender gap in digital technology professions.
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WHAT’S IN A SEQUENCE and 001 BANK

Collaboration with Claire Matthews and Hi-Kyung Eun.
FEB 2021

Recently, the global market for direct-to-consumer DNA testing kits, which can provide insights into ancestry and genetic health, has boomed. However, the businesses selling these services often harness customer data in exploitative ways. In the very near future it will be possible to fully sequence the genetic information of any living organism on a mass scale, but how will all this data be handled?

On this website and in this  short video  we consider an alternative to a centralised DNA system.
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FACADES OF SALZBURG

NOV 2019

A lot of  information about our lifes can be found on the internet. We post on social media, phonebooks are digitalized and almost every company can be found on Google. But often we do not realize how much information a stranger can find.

By telling stories that are between non-fiction and fiction Facades of Salzburg gives a small insight of life that is connected to 336 images of buildings in Salzburg. By looking past their facade the buildings regain their meaning and show the beauty of everyday life, while at the same time questioning how much a stranger can know just by searching the internet.
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