Girl Employee

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In today’s episode, we explore and speculate on the existence of a crisis of technological critique. What happens when technology is no longer simply an object we can examine from the outside, but a condition deeply embedded in our everyday lives? We discuss how ethics, academia, art, media, and critical discourse have become increasingly entangled with technological development, and ask whether critique still has the power to meaningfully shape the systems it seeks to question or whether it has itself become part of the machinery of innovation.

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@billuartmc

@carmen_lael_hines

Welcome back to Girl Employee! In today’s special episode, Carmen talks about the bot Abby, 'Your AI Ally', and how automated emotional support works within a corporate environment and outside of it, as well as its specifics.

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@billuartmc

@carmen_lael_hines

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Girl Employee. In this episode, Carmen speaks with Una Gjerde, a producer, critic, editor, and curator based in Oslo, Norway. Together, they discuss Una's practice and their respective experiences as curators.

https://www.instagram.com/unagjerde/

https://curatorlab.se/una-mathiesen-gjerde/

https://indexfoundation.se/talks-and-events/breaking-the-course-of-the-european-boomerang-screening-curated-by-una-gjerde-and-krisztian-toeroek 

https://www.billedkunstnerneioslo.no/en/about-boa/

GIRL EMPLOYEE is a podcast about technology and visual culture by Morgane Billuart and Carmen Lael Hines. If you identify as a woman and would like to present your research on our podcast, do not hesitate to email us at [email protected]

On 7 February, we live-recorded an episode of our podcast @Pluto as part of a curated series of performances by @Mantis. Here, you will find a re-recorded version of the episode in English. A variation of this performance will be printed in the upcoming edited volume, The GIRL READER, edited by Mela Miekus and Mita Medri, soon to be published by SET MARGINS. 

GIRL EMPLOYEE is a podcast about technology and visual culture by Morgane Billuart and Carmen Lael Hines.

If you identify as a woman and would like to present you research on our podcast, do not hestitate to email us at [email protected]

Welcome back to Girl Employee! Today, we are in conversation with artist Ruba Al-Sweel, talking about art and film-making, research on hardware supremacy, and the ecologies of scaled-up technologies, specifically e-waste. 

You can find out about Ruba's work on her Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/rrrrrruuuuuubbbbbbzzzzzz/ 

Welcome back to Girl Employee! In today’s special episode, Ester Freider talks about the online community she built through her Instagram account 'EveryoneIsaGirl', as well as some of her experience with community theory and her love of the network. 

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*Matt Colquhoun now refers to themselves as Mattie * and with they/them.

EIAG:
instagram.com/everyoneisagirl
everyoneisagirl.cargo.site
everyoneisagirl.substack.com

Me:
instagram.com/stargir1z 
linktr.ee/esterfreider
https://www.are.na/ester-freider/channels
esterfreider.substack.com

Welcome back to Girl Employee! In today’s special episode, Carmen presents some of her research and insights on LLMs as tools to process heartbreaks, or, perhaps, linger in nostalgia and melancholia.

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Welcome back to Girl Employee! In today’s special episode, Carmen discussed XenoVisual Studies with Mar Osés, Pilar del Puerto, and Esther Rizo-Casado, a collective network for artistic experimentation and critical thought that examines how emerging technologies redefine visual aesthetics, influencing our perception of reality, identity, and society.

- XenoVisual Studies, 2024, www.xenovisualstudies.com

- Hester, H. (2018) Xenofeminism. Polity Press.

- Laboria Cuboniks. Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation. (2015) laboriacuboniks.net/manifesto/xenofeminism-a-politics-for-alienation/

- Rizo-Casado, E. (2024) Xeno-Tuning: Dissolving Hegemonic Identities in Algorithmic Multiplicity. A Peer Review Journal About. https://aprja.net//article/view/151237

- Konior, Bogna (2016) M. Alien Aesthetics: Xenofeminism and Nonhuman Animals. 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art, HongKong.

- Hester, H. (2024) After Work. Verso Books

- n1x. (2018) Gender Acceleration: A Blackpaper. The Anarchist Library, theanarchistlibrary.org/library/n1x-gender-acceleration-a-blackpaper

- Hito Steyerl. (2016) A Sea of Data: Apophenia and Pattern (Mis-)Recognition. E-Flux Journal, no.72, www.e-flux.com/journal/72/60480/a-sea-of-data-apophenia-and-pattern-mis-recognition

- Bottici, Chiara (2017) From the Imagination to the Imaginal Politics, Spectacle and Post-Fordist Capitalism. Social Imaginaries, vol. 3, no. 1, Philosophy Documentation Center. https://doi.org10.5840/si2017314.

Spanish References

- Steyerl, H. (2025) Medios Calientes. Caja Negra.

- Laboria Cuboniks. (2022) Nuevos Vectores del Xenofeminismo. Editorial Holobionte. 

- Navarro, T. (2024) Xenofilia Algorítmica. Podcast. https://soundcloud.com/xenovisual-studies/xenofilia-algoritmica-por-toni-navarro

- Otero, M. El Almacenamiento de Datos como Compost Computacional. https://soundcloud.com/xenovisual-studies/marina-otero

- Presentación de Xenoimage Dataset:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pzMsNSttBY&t=1s

- Gómez Gabriel, N. (2023) Traumacore. Crónicas de una disociación feminista. Cielo Santo.

Welcome back to Girl Employee! In today’s special episode, Sophie Publig and Mikkel Rørbo share their recent research on the language of occultism and its pervasive online presence.

You can find more about the research and their work here :

https://www.are.na/mikkel-rorbo/digital-occultism-klm4eqbcq8k

https://www.instagram.com/publig.enemy/
https://www.instagram.com/nonstalgianonsense/

Welcome back to Girl Employee! In today’s special episode, Morgane shares research on The Marketization of the Occult Online, illustrated through her project Gifted, filmed in 2023.

https://vimeo.com/727564540

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