Books & Monographs

Hardware and Eco-Feminist Art: Hacking and Artistic Practices Towards Ethical Technology

Patrícia J. Reis & Stefanie Wuschitz (2024) — transcript Verlag, Bielefeld.

Cover of Hardware and Eco-Feminist Art

This open-access book brings together eco-feminist theories, hardware hacking, and hands-on artistic strategies to question electronic waste, extraction, and ethical material practices in contemporary technological art.

Cover and design layout: Eva Balayan

Proof-editing: Amanda George

Printed by: Druckhaus Bechstein GmbH, Wetzlar

Printed version ISBN: 978-3-8376-7862-8

Open-access version ISBN: 978-3-8394-1932-8

This book was published by transcript Verlag with publishing and open-access funding provided by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) 10.55776/PUB1218. It can be downloaded free under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.

Underneath the Skin Another Skin [Selected Works]

Patrícia J. Reis (Ed., 2020) — Monograph, Self-Published, Vienna.

Cover of Underneath the Skin Another Skin

A comprehensive artist monograph reflecting on a decade of tactile installations, sensory interfaces, and corporeal media experiments.

Texts
Claudia Giannetti
Michael Wonnerth-Magnusson
Patrícia J. Reis
Sophia Panteliadou
Taguhi Torosyan

Translations
Jeffrey Swartz
Anne Miranda, Tradimillenium Lda

Proofreading
Amanda George

Design
Ismini Adami

Photography
Sophie Thun, Manfred Pichlbauer, Alexandra Gschiel, Jessica Wittman, Michael Wilhelm, Markus Hiesleitner

With the kind support of Bundeskanzleramt Österreich, Kunst und Kultur. ISBN 978-3-200-06817-9.

Copies can be purchased directly from the artist through Contact .

Exhibition Catalogues & Books

  • Reis, P.J. (forthcoming). Patrícia J. Reis, Hacking the Sense: The Black Box of Human-Technology Interaction. In Enquiries on Human-AI Futures (pp. 114–123).
  • Reis, P.J. (2025). Let’s Get Physical! Re-framing Love in Human-Machine Interactions. In 13 Reasons: Magazine for Multisensory Discourse and Parasitic Relations. Wolke Verlag. ISSN 3053-8912.
  • Reis, P.J., & Wuschitz, S. (2025). Feminist Hacking: Technopolitiken und Ethische Hardware. In Pirate Cultures Vienna: Kreative Strategien der Rückeroberung und Wiederaneignung in Wien (pp. 101–125). ISBN 978-3-200-10279-8.
  • Reis, P.J. (2025). a r t i s t monologue with Media Artist & Researcher Patricia J. Reis. In Fluff Magazine, issue 8 (pp. 52–55).
  • Reis, P.J., & Mesquita, F. (2024). The Cosmic Box. In Tombola VII (pp. 8–9).
  • Reis, P.J., & Wuschitz, S. (2024). Clay PCB Eco-Feminist Hardware. In Prix Ars Electronica 2024 (p. 207). ISBN 978-3-7757-5823-9.
  • Reis, P.J. (2024). EndoSensorial Mask. In Digital (pp. 70–73). Fotogalerie Wien. ISBN 978-3-902725-52-3.
Earlier Exhibition Catalogues (2020–2008)
  • Reis, P.J. (2020). [BELIEVER. MACHINE. INTERFACE]: Ongoing Research on the Fragile Entanglements Between Art, Science, Technology, and Other Beliefs. In Underneath the Skin Another Skin [Selected Works]. Self-published. ISBN 978-3-200-06817-9.
  • Kusch, M., Schantl, A., & Schnell, R. (2018). #fuckreality. Vienna: Verlag für Moderne Kunst.
  • Gevers, I. (2018). Robot Love: Can We Learn from Robots About Love? Lannoo Publishers.
  • Reis, P.J. (2013). Odalisques #2: Partizipative Installation. In Schnell, R. (Ed.), Digital Frictions: Digital Art at Das Weisse Haus. Vienna: University of Applied Arts Vienna, pp. 72–73.
  • Reis, P.J. (2013). Odalisques #2: Partizipative Installation. In Giannetti, C. (Ed.), Something Other Than Photography: Photo & Media. Oldenburg: Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, pp. 100–103.
  • Reis, P.J. (2013). Penetrating the Black Box: Elektronische Closed-Circuit Installation. In Giannetti, C. (Ed.), Something Other Than Photography: Photo & Media. Oldenburg: Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, pp. 96–99.
  • Reis, P.J. (2011). Image in Science and Art (on the international conference Image in Science and Art, Lisbon, 17–19 February 2011). ARTECAPITAL , 9 March 2013.
  • Canariasmediafest 2008: Festival Internacional de Cultura Digital. (2008). Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain: Consejería de Cultura y Patrimonio Histórico del Cabildo de Gran Canaria. ISBN 978-84-8103-571-1.

Academic Papers & Book Chapters

  • Reis, P. J., & Wuschitz, S. (2025). Clay PCB – Eco-Feminist Decolonial Hardware. In Proceedings Book ISEA2025. https://data.doi.or.kr/10.23362/KOEN2025.07.25.1.051
  • Reis, P. J., & Wuschitz, S. (2025). Hardware and Eco-Feminist Art: Hacking and Artistic Practices Towards Ethical Technology. transcript. ISBN 978-3-8394-1932-8.
  • Reis, P.J., & Wuschitz, S. (2024). Clay PCB ArduinA: Making un microcontrolador de hardware feminista con arcilla natural y materiales de minería urbana. In Proceedings of Simposio Intra-Acción (pp. 48–49). ISBN 978-84-09-65463-5.
  • Reis, P.J., & Wuschitz, S. (2024). Ethical Hardware Kit. In Driving Design: Collective Approaches Enriching Design Practices . Barcelona: Distributed Design Platform. ISBN 978-84-120886-4-9.
  • Reis, P. J., Wuschitz, S., & Torosyan, T. (2024). Coffee Table: An Interactive Installation. In Proceedings of xCoAx 2024 : 12th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X (pp. 351–358). Fabrica, Treviso, Italy. https://doi.org/10.34626/2024_xcoax_030
More Academic Papers (2022–2011)
  • Reis, P.J. (2022). X Body: Embodying the “Black Box”. In Carvalhais, M., et al. (Eds.), The Book of X , Porto (pp. 113–122). ISBN 978-989-9049-26-0. DOI: 10.24840/978-989-9049-26-0.
  • Reis, P. J., Torosyan, T., & Wuschitz, S. (2022). Interferences of the Multitude . In Politics of the Machine 2021: Proceedings of the 3rd POM Conference. Berlin, 14–17 October 2021.
  • Reis, P. J., & Wuschitz, S. (2021). Curating Hacking. In Bosold, B., Fritsch, L., Hofmann, V., Krasny, E., & Lingg, S. (Eds.), Radicalizing Care: Feminist and Queer Activism in Curating . Vienna: Reihe der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien bei Sternberg Press.
  • Tiselli, E., ojoVoz, Reis, P. J., Wuschitz, S., Scott, J., & Kolè, N. (2018). Using Media and Technology to Amplify the Voices of Local Communities. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2018) (pp. 406–409). ISBN 978-0-620-80332-8.
  • Reis, P.J. (2017). Playfulness in Interactive Systems: An Empirical Study for the Creative Development of Underneath the Skin Another Skin. In Sonvilla-Weiss, S. (Ed.), VIS-A-VIS Medien Kunst Bildung , pp. 105–118. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter.
  • Reis, P.J. (2013). Vjam Theory. TECCOGS: Revista Digital de Tecnologias Cognitivas do Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Tecnologias de Inteligência e Design Digital da Universidade de São Paulo, 6, 287–291.
  • Reis, P. J., & Bila, V. (2012). Inside Out: Myself as Diana. Audiovisual Participatory Installation. In ARTECH 2012, Crossing Digital Boundaries: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Digital Arts. Faro, 7–9 November 2012, Universidade do Algarve in cooperation with Artech International and Grupo Português de Computação Gráfica, pp. 493–496.
  • Passarinho, A., Velhinho, A., Santos, C., Silva, M., Reis, P. J., Nunes, T., & Silva, V. (2011). Arte(Cá), an International Artist Residencies Programme: The Importance of Place in the Global Concept of Art and Nature. International Journal of the Arts in Society, 6(3), 279–292. Illinois: International Journal of the Arts in Society.
  • Passarinho, A., Velhinho, A., Santos, C., Silva, M., Reis, P. J., Nunes, T., & Silva, V. (2011). ArtShots – Art and Multimedia Communication Labs: Framing Strategies and Platforms for Crossing Experiences in Teaching and Learning. International Journal of the Arts in Society, 6(2), 351–366. Illinois: International Journal of the Arts in Society.

Selected Press & Reviews

  • Inside ‘Are You Human?’: How Khoj Turns AI into a Question of Power, Identity & Survival, featuring Patrícia J. Reis and Stefanie Wuschitz’s Clay PCB: Eco-Feminist Decolonial Hardware (New Delhi, 2026). The Financial Express .
  • Sensoryczne mechanizmy / Sensorial Mechanisms: Patrícia J. Reis & Dorota Walentynowicz (Gdańsk, 2025–2026). Zbrojownia Sztuki .
  • Najciekawsze wystawy jesieni 2025 [The Most Interesting Exhibitions of Autumn 2025], featuring Patrícia J. Reis and Dorota Walentynowicz in To soft to show to hard to see (Poland, 2025). Magazyn Szum .
  • Patrícia J. Reis & Ruth Schnell: Traces of Control (Bregenz, 2025). Creative Austria – Contemporary Culture .
  • Stefanie Wuschitz and Patrícia Reis Nominated for the S+T+ARTS Prize, featuring Clay PCB: Eco-Feminist Decolonial Hardware (Vienna, 2024). Academy of Fine Arts Vienna .
  • Patrícia J. Reis & Lukas Walcher: Through the Hole Is the Way ‘Out-of-This-World’ (2019), reproduced in OÖ Kulturbericht (Austria, 2022). OÖ Kulturbericht .
  • Artist Patrícia J. Reis in conversation with Shamsher Virk (2021). Ars Electronica .
  • Travel Diary: 1 Meter Under the Metro, by Giada Totaro (Rome, 2021). Digicult .
  • Penetrating the Black Box (2020). esc medien kunst labor .
  • Patrícia J. Reis: [BMI] Believer.Machine.Interface (Vienna, 2017). esel.at .
  • Carla Cabanas / Patrícia J. Reis: Intimate Archives After Media, Schneiderei Studio Gallery, Vienna, Austria (Vienna, 2017). esel.at .
  • Patrícia J. Reis: Penetrating the Black Box, MuseumsQuartier — Electric Avenue, Vienna (2016). MQ .
  • Patrícia J. Reis, featuring Blow!, Underneath the Skin Another Skin, and Sensorial Screen (Vienna). Female* Artist Index Vienna .
  • Andrew Newman in conversation with Patricia J. Reis and Anna T. RIAT .
Earlier Press & Reviews Archive (2016–2007)