“Nós somos gente… gente computada igual a você”: a construção de um estranhamento do computar

Abstract

Observing a normative construction permeated in society especially regarding to gender and sexuality issues, including spaces of computing, this research sought to weave a problematization of this situation in computing area. We understood the labs and spaces for creation and experimentation based on Hacker and Maker perspective as possible openings and breakings promoters. We analyzed the existing movements in the area as a way to think about how Queer studies can bring other perspectives to computing for normative deconstruction. In this way, articulating the criticism weave from an action we organized the workshop-colletive called Performativity • Art • Technology (PAT) to discuss gender and sexuality dissidence through artistic and technological languages. Thus, we formed the research tripod: computing-queering-art. Thinking about connections between Queer theories (queering) and the ethics from the Hacker and Maker movements we organized the research category called haqueerization, a hacking process that also occurs through queering criticism. In the connection between the construction of a post-identity critique with PAT’s actions and developments about computing we looked for the possibilities in the construction of a more open and less normative computing. This leados to a queering computing going through appropriation process that comes from people and groups demands, in their actions, knowledge and wishes that do not necessarily occupy centrality in the area or broader spheres of society. The queering occurs from dissidence and difference narratives as a way to think about computing that escapes the usual in its disciplinary and institutional formation as in this research through people appropriations in PAT workshop-collective.