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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Welcome back to Girl Employee! In today's special episode, Carmen will share some research on trad wives and feminine lifestyle aesthetics.

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Welcome back to Girl Employee! Today's special episode is an interview with Muj Abdulzade on corporate aesthetics, performativity in the workplace, and graphic design as an investigative practice.

You can learn more about Muj's work:

Slow Mondays: https://substack.com/@slowmondays
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imujabd/

Office Aesthetics, Paola Jalili: https://paolajalili.xyz/office-aesthetics/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/office.aesthetics/

Office sirens: https://networkcultures.org/longform/2024/09/23/drown-your-laptop/

https://officemuseum.online/index.html

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