Ada Lovelace Day

International Ada Lovelace Day takes place every year on the second Tuesday in October. On this day, more information is provided about the fact that the first "computer program" was written by a woman in the years 1842-1843 and the focus is placed on the achievements that women have made and continue to make in computer science, mathematics, technology and the natural sciences - the aim is to counter the marginalisation, if not oblivion, of the roles that women play in computer technology and its history with information and media attention.

With the help of Constant, the Brussels-based art and media initiative Constant and its card game SPLINT, we will take a look at feminist approaches to current technologies and ask the question: What could/should Speculative, Libre and Intersectional Technologies (SPLINT) do?

In order to find a coherent language and open our minds to these questions, Constant and some of her allies have developed a card game, the SPLINT cards. This first version of the card game was trialled with different groups with different goals, future fears/hopes, urgencies and temporalities in public and private settings.

SPLINT is a thinking, imagining, dreaming and oracle game designed to explore the potential of technology through artistic practice and vice versa at the intersection of intersectional feminism and open source software. The aim is to examine the inherent discriminations and structural problems of technology while encouraging the imagination of techno-realities of an open, experimental and equitable digital art field.

This game was inspired by The Oracle for Transfeminist Technologies, which prompted Constant to develop his own version of the game.

The game can be downloaded from the Constant Calibre online library to print it yourself.