Arse Elektronika: SCREW THE SYSTEM September 29, 2011

Sept 29 7pm-12am, Sept 30 7pm-12am, Oct 1 12-6pm and 8pm-12am, Oct 2 1pm-8pm

monochrom's Conference on sex, technology, class, and culture.

The remarkable diversity of human behavior across cultures and classes also extends to sex and technology. Most discussions in this area tend to make certain assumptions about the culture, class, and race of the participants. Technologically represented sex tends to be ableist and heterocentric. Who gets left out of this, what effects does this have, and what would it look like to include them?
Is there working class, middle class and upper class porn?
How does the commercial sex industry reproduce and enforce racial, gender, and class exploitation and dominance?
How do people use sex and sexual technology to transgress or change social status?
Is kinkiness a luxury?
What does kink from different social classes look like?
How and why do governments intervene in sexualities?
What are the labor conditions of non-Western workers who make most of the world's sex toys?
What's the environmental footprint of a technologically assisted orgasm?
How important is intellectual property to sex tech, and how is it enforced?
How do the class and cultural impacts of differential access to shifting reproductive technologies like IVF, surrogacy (especially international surrogates), egg and sperm donors, birth control, and abortions affect the ways people have sex and construct relationships?
Where are the sex toys for the elderly?
What are the pornography surfing habits of homeless people in libraries?
Can technology meaningfully contribute to solutions for sexual social problems like rape?
Should your health insurance be paying for your vibrator?
Who buys sex tech?
Is sex technology a luxury?
How will the DIY movement change the sex tech market?
Will we be able to print our on sex toys on rapid prototyping machines?

Join us in exploring these questions through talks, machines, workshops and performances Sept 29 - Oct 2.

Official Website: http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika/