# Reclaiming Technology:
# A Collaborative Feminist Approach
## by Silvia Binda Heiserova
## INTRODUCTION
## ABOUT THE PROJECT
# "Reclaiming Technology: A Collaborative Feminist Approach" is an ongoing artistic research project I initiated in 2024 during my participation in the European Digital Deal Artist Residency.
# The project seeks to critically analyze the androcentric narratives constructed around technologies and to develop alternative models of how we relate to technologies.
## ABOUT ME
connect with me on mastodon https://tldr.nettime.org/@silviabinda?hidden=true
## objectives:
# -> Define technological phenomena for artistic reflection and critical analysis
# -> Produce speculative artworks addressing the research questions
# -> Create an informal space for debating feminist perspectives on technology
# -> Gather and share feminist perspectives on technology in specific industries and areas
## READING RECOMMENDATIONS
# Practices of Reclaiming
## See and download the bibliogrpahy list here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v0ZXtst_NNt8_otLz7mdxiyhxiUIVK4Sxzb-4oVu924/edit?tab=t.0&hidden=true
## Stratum
Stratum offers a sensorial and critically informed reflection on how technological systems silently and invisibly shape our perception and experience of nothing less than time itself. The work is part of Silvia Binda’s broader artistic practice, which seeks to expose the material infrastructures of technology by deconstructing processes that usually remain hidden, breaking them down into visible actions. With her work, she invites us to reflect on our technological lives through this deconstruction process.
At the centre of the installation is a receiver tower for satellite data, a sculptural element that evokes the infrastructures regulating our everyday sense of temporality. Stratum questions the imposed notion of a singular, synchronised time dictated by satellites orbiting the Earth, each equipped with atomic clocks. Through a network of GPS antennas, receiver modules, electromagnetic microphones, screens, and speakers, the piece reveals the hidden layers and imperceptible mechanisms of time measurement and distribution in the digital age.
If time is all we truly have, how many hours are our devices stealing from us? What may feel like mere moments often turn into hours. Stratum raises an urgent question: how much of our precious time is being claimed through our digital devices? Economist and Nobel laureate Herbert A. Simon coined the term attention economy, warning that the overabundance of content across all types of media would make attention a scarce resource, creating the cognitive bottleneck of the digital age. It is a fact that certain tech companies base their business on advertising and data extraction, and for that reason, they aim to maximise the time we spend on their platforms. In this landscape, time becomes not only a contested commodity but a subjective and increasingly manipulable experience.
Text by Blanca Pérez Ferrer
More info:
https://www.silviabinda.com/stratum?hidden=true
Reclaiming Technology by Silvia Binda
# Reclaiming Technology:
# A Collaborative Feminist Approach
## by Silvia Binda Heiserova
## INTRODUCTION
## ABOUT THE PROJECT
# "Reclaiming Technology: A Collaborative Feminist Approach" is an ongoing artistic research project I initiated in 2024 during my participation in the European Digital Deal Artist Residency.
# The project seeks to critically analyze the androcentric narratives constructed around technologies and to develop alternative models of how we relate to technologies.
## ABOUT ME
connect with me on mastodon https://tldr.nettime.org/@silviabinda?hidden=true
## objectives:
# -> Define technological phenomena for artistic reflection and critical analysis
# -> Produce speculative artworks addressing the research questions
# -> Create an informal space for debating feminist perspectives on technology
# -> Gather and share feminist perspectives on technology in specific industries and areas
## READING RECOMMENDATIONS
# Practices of Reclaiming
## See and download the bibliogrpahy list here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v0ZXtst_NNt8_otLz7mdxiyhxiUIVK4Sxzb-4oVu924/edit?tab=t.0&hidden=true
## Stratum
Stratum offers a sensorial and critically informed reflection on how technological systems silently and invisibly shape our perception and experience of nothing less than time itself. The work is part of Silvia Binda’s broader artistic practice, which seeks to expose the material infrastructures of technology by deconstructing processes that usually remain hidden, breaking them down into visible actions. With her work, she invites us to reflect on our technological lives through this deconstruction process.
At the centre of the installation is a receiver tower for satellite data, a sculptural element that evokes the infrastructures regulating our everyday sense of temporality. Stratum questions the imposed notion of a singular, synchronised time dictated by satellites orbiting the Earth, each equipped with atomic clocks. Through a network of GPS antennas, receiver modules, electromagnetic microphones, screens, and speakers, the piece reveals the hidden layers and imperceptible mechanisms of time measurement and distribution in the digital age.
If time is all we truly have, how many hours are our devices stealing from us? What may feel like mere moments often turn into hours. Stratum raises an urgent question: how much of our precious time is being claimed through our digital devices? Economist and Nobel laureate Herbert A. Simon coined the term attention economy, warning that the overabundance of content across all types of media would make attention a scarce resource, creating the cognitive bottleneck of the digital age. It is a fact that certain tech companies base their business on advertising and data extraction, and for that reason, they aim to maximise the time we spend on their platforms. In this landscape, time becomes not only a contested commodity but a subjective and increasingly manipulable experience.
Text by Blanca Pérez Ferrer
More info:
https://www.silviabinda.com/stratum?hidden=true