Synthetic Becoming - the exhibition

SYNTHETIC BECOMING 
Exhibition at Galerie FaVU in Brno

6 Dec 2022 - 31 Jan 2023

Malin Ah-King & Eva Hayward | Byron Rich & Liz Flyntz | Maddalena Fragnito & Zoe Romano (OBOT) | Aliens in Green | Mary Maggic & Perrrformat | Franziska Klaas & Susanne Bauer | Lenka Veselá | Konstantin Biehl | Rosæ Canine Collective & Mariana Rios Sandoval |Marne Lucas | Ker Wallwork & Juliet Jacques | Anjali Rao-Herel & Jacquelyne Luce | Annabel Guérédrat | Rian Ciela Hammond

Maddalena Fragnito & Zoe Romano
OBOT (Our Bodies Our Tech), 2022, posters and video 2:40

OBOT (Our Bodies Our Tech) is a project started in 2020 by Maddalena
Fragnito and Zoe Romano concerned with a transfeminist and queer
perspective in the study of science and technology. OBOT addresses
methods to lower the barrier to the production of scientific knowledge by
making access to tools, protocols, and data more inclusive and by promoting
collaborative inquiry. Starting from questions raised by different gazes,
OBOT’s work unfolds between workshops, scientific and technological
toolmaking, research, and texts.

Maddalena Fragnito is an artist and activist. She is a doctoral student at
Coventry University’s Centre for Postdigital Cultures. She co-founded
MACAO (2012), an autonomous cultural center in Milan; SopraSotto (2013), a
self-managed kindergarten by parents; and KINlab (2021), an interdisciplinary lab in Milan and headquarter of OBOT project. She is part of the research groups Pirate Care and Institute of Radical Imagination. Her last publication is Ecologie della cura: Prospettive transfemministe (Orthotes, 2021).

Zoe Romano is an independent researcher, craftivist focused on social
innovation, open technologies, and speculative design. She graduated in
philosophy at the University of Milan, worked for several years in digital
communication and tech, and developed her social skills as media hacktivist
in various collectives on precarity and material and immaterial labor in the
creative industries. She co-founded WeMake Makerspace in 2014 and is
now working in KINlab—an interdisciplinary lab in the San Siro neighborhood in Milan and headquarter of OBOT project.