Target Audience: Open to all women and those who identify as women.

Workshop Goals:

• To create a foundational space for the exploration and understanding of feminine identity symbolism in digital media/AI/XR coming from a personal (multiple) identity place in the artist’s approach.

• To provide a platform for further engagement and creativity, inspiring participants to create digital media/AI/XR projects about the chore theme (Feminine Symbolism), illustrating the workshop with examples of artists and works that explore BIPOC women and LGTBIQ+. Women’s self-representation

• To build a community of women who are interested in using digital media/AI/XR to express their creativity and share/explore their stories drawing from their identity experiences.

Workshop Activities:

Introduction:

• Welcome participants and introduce myself.
• Review the workshop agenda and goals.
• Provide a brief overview of feminine symbolism in digital media/AI/XR, with a focus on identity representation.
  *Discuss with participants the concept of “feminine symbolism”. What does this concept mean to them?

Activity 1: Digital Media/AI/XR Inspiration:

• Share examples of digital media/AI/XR projects created by BIPOC women. I’m bullish on afrofuturism, latinxfuturism and LGBTIQ+ (queer) work, which is the one I’ve researched the most, and I do my work around.

• Lead a discussion on the ways in which these projects explore feminine symbolism and self-representation and empowerment by thinking of shared experiences with the artist’s community. Think collectively about how these shared knowledge and emotions can be personal/political.

Activity 2: Digital Media/AI/XR Skills:

• Introduce participants to basic digital media/AI/XR tools and techniques.
• Provide participants with the opportunity to practice their skills by creating short digital media/AI/XR projects.

Activity 3: Digital Media/AI/XR Project Development:

• Help participants to develop their own digital media/AI/XR project ideas and explore their roots and the communities they belong to in order to make work around the symbolism of the feminine.

• Provide guidance on how to draw from sexual/racial/tribal/country identities to source their artistic work and express themselves.

Wrap-Up:

• Share the workshop highlights and takeaways.

• Answer questions from participants.

• Encourage participants to continue exploring feminine symbolism and self-representation in their digital media/AI/XR work.