Mattie Brice wrote a great piece about Arse Elektronika 2014.<\/p>\n
This past weekend, I went to the annual sex and tech conference in San Francisco, Arse Elektronika<\/a>.
\nThis was actually the first conference I spoke at back in 2012 when it was specifically about play and games, and I got to come again this year to see what new projects people thinking and crafting about sex were up to. This conference tends to attract a cross-section of toy makers and academics interested in sex topics, but also nets in software people and artists. You regularly meet developers here who partition their time between managing backend infrastructure for mobile casinos<\/a> during the day and prototyping open-source haptic interfaces on the weekend.<\/p>\nWhat\u2019s interesting for me about this group of people who convene over
\nsex and tech is how similar and different the mood is to my experience
\nin video games. The demographics are about the same, with maybe the
\nratio of women you\u2019d see at an indie games event, so higher than the
\nindustry but not as much as men. But there is an unspoken understanding
\nof non-judgment that I see in the kink community in SF that makes it
\neasier for people to bend outside of gender norms for the most part. If
\nanything, a lot of baggage around heteronormativity and monogamy is left
\nbehind, but technocentrism and the centering of hegemonic masculinity\u2019s
\nrelationship with sex still exists. An interesting site of reference if
\nyou want to see the dynamics where fluid sexuality is a thing and how
\nmen, and sometimes others, relate to each other in a context they don\u2019t
\nreally get to outside of these situations. So I wanted to share with you
\nall my thoughts on some of the presentations and how they relate to our
\nrealm of play.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nLink<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mattie Brice wrote a great piece about Arse Elektronika 2014. This past weekend, I went to the annual sex and tech conference in San Francisco, Arse Elektronika. This was actually the first conference I spoke at back in 2012 when it was specifically about play and games, and I got to come again this year … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arse-elektronika","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/9691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/9691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13385,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/9691\/revisions\/13385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}