Femke Snelting develops projects at the intersection of publishing, trans*feminism, and Free Software. In various constellations she works on re-imagining computational practices to disinvest from technological monoculture and from the regime of The Cloud.
With Miriyam Aouragh, Seda Gürses, Helen Pritchard and Jara Rocha, she runs The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest. TITiPI is a trans-practice gathering of activists, artists, engineers and theorists that make space for articulating, contesting and reimagining what computational infrastructures do to collective life. In the context of SoLiXG, TITiPI develops Counter Cloud Imaginaries, so-and-sovereign institutional infrastructures and modes of infra-resistance. With the Infrastructural Rehearsals collective, TITiPI collaborates on proposals and interventions that challenge top-down hegemonic approaches to the climate crisis, from green-washing tech capitalists to state-sponsored initiatives.
With Eva Weinmayr, Femke develops tools to address the tangled fabric of collective artistic practice and taking on the implications of reusing and sharing works made by others. With the Underground Division (Helen Pritchard, Jara Rocha) she studies and loops computational imaginations of rock formations. With Jara Rocha, she edited the publication Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence (Open Humanities Press, 2022).
Femke supports artistic research at MERIAN (Maastricht) and contributes to Nubo, a cooperative which provides locally hosted, Open Source digital services.
