A guided tour (DE) through the exhibition Technik#Weiblich#Logisch.
Women and Technology in the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region from October 2020

We bid farewell to the 2020 exhibition with this computing node, which could also be considered an "art object".
(learn more at "object of the week")

In ANNA, a project by multimedia artist Heidi Herzig, Sicilian orange crates -N- are both storage space and pedestal ...
"ANNA is an assemblage of multimedia material such as booklets in text and image, prints, material objects and video," explains Heidi Herzig.
(learn more at "object of the week")

Technology is indispensable. It is an indispensable part of our lives. We count on it. It has to work, that's why it's there in the first place!
But what if the technology suddenly doesn't work, or doesn't work as it should?
(learn more at "object of the week")

Wood blackened, concrete colored through, metal rods
 98 x 22 x 4 cm

At the beginning of the 1990s, Valeria Sokolova moved with her husband, first to Moscow and later to Germany.
She created her first homepage with a qualification profile and found work.
In retirement, she began researching Nuremberg and wrote a cultural guide. And of course she typeset and laid out the book herself. ...
(learn more at "portrait of the week")

We are stronger together. This is the very reason why networking is an important aspect.
 Since 2002, the Simone Mentoring Program at the Georg Simon Ohm Technical University in Nuremberg has brought together professionally experienced women and MINT students.
(learn more at "portrait of the week")

Who prepares the coffee using which model?

Dean Ismail Ibrihem came to Germany from Iraq at the age of 16.
 She studied Medical Technology in Gießen. This study is a relatively new program, and so she hoped that it would boost her chances on the job market.
(learn more at "portrait of the week")

Thuringian dumplings are at home in the "Coburger Land” (Upper Franconia). It’s a lot of work for the housewives to prepare those dumplings as part of their Sunday meals.
Approximately 50 years ago, smart cooks converted their laundry spin dryer into a spin dryer for potatoes
(learn more at "object of the week")

Participant „Mädchen für Technik-Camp“ ("Girls for Tech Camp")

"I would never have thought that I enjoy soldering, drilling and filing so much", ...
(learn more at "portrait of the week")

"Societies that let women work and contribute have stronger economies”, …
... That is Ilse Schmitt’s point of view. Born in 1936, she is one of the first female telecommunications inspectors for the German Federal Post Office in Nuremberg. She has 40 years of professional life behind her and has been able to experience the rapid development in data transmission technology, while working in the midst of a world dominated by men.
(learn more at "portrait of the week") 

In Corona times: Suck away viruses
 Mixed media object (glass, metal)
 4/2020
 
... Glass: so light and yet so heavy, it is a study in contrasts, more so than any other material....
(learn more at "object of the week")
 

Even as a child, Gabriele Knebel loved to make jewelry. She spent all of her pocket money on the necessary materials. She always made jewelry for friends and family on their special occasions. Finally, she realized her dream ...
(learn more at "portrait of the week")

Vision of a distant future by looking back at a completed future.
 Starting point is a photo from "Lettre". It shows a faded facade, an unreal architecture, windows that open to imaginary spheres.
(learn more about the artist and her work at "object of the week")

Ms. Kress-Schmidt creates new objects from computer parts and a wide variety of prefabricated parts: She creates animals, people, groups of people, and urban landscapes. Each component used remains a “thing-in-itself.” But it is also brought into a new, often ironic, context.
(learn more about the artist and her work at "object of the week")

Warm up frozen food? Quickly heat up a cup of milk? Sure. But there is more, and women lead the way: They use it to disinfect toothbrushes and dentures, sterilize sponges, dishcloths, dish brushes, cutting boards and mason jars. They use it to warm up grain pillows and moist compresses. They use it to replace stamps and stubborn labels – It’s a veritable – a mini-laboratory in the kitchen.

Carolina Martínez Linares: born in Bogota, Colombia; lives and works in Erlangen. Studied at the European Institute for Industrial Design. Earned her Masters at the School of Artistic Jewelry Design, Barcelona. Initiator of the creative workshop Coworkingspace, founded in 2018
(learn more about the artist and her work at "object of the week")

Susanne Kammerer is a European patent attorney (PA): What are her responsibilities as a PA?
(learn more at "portrait of the week")
 

 Polyurethan, Silver, Steel wire.
(learn more about the artist and her work at "object of the week")

When Betül Pireci's mother came to Nuremberg in 1993, she was very young. She managed to graduate from school with the help of supplemental evening courses, despite also running a household with two children. She has passed on her strong passion for learning to her children.
 (learn more at "portrait of the week")

Drawing analysis: the outer skin, body and body sections of cactus fruits. Natural and structural drawings 1-6
(learn more about the artist and her work at "object of the week")

Nostalgic memory: An antique plane from the Kießling Joinery. Today master carpenter Annette Kießling works with completely different technical tools and machines ....

Miranda Oben moved to Berlin more than ten years ago. She came to Germany from Cameroon as a university student. She majored in information and communication technology, found a great job, and moved to Nuremberg with her husband.
 (learn more at "portrait of the week")

„You were very lucky to get one in the GDR.“
Starting in 1960, the WM 63 took its place in the kitchen, allowing people to wash the laundry right there. If you were a little bit savvy, you could even “hack” the machine and find new uses for it. ...
(learn more at "object of the week")

2019, H2O, Thread
Solid becomes liquid, cold passes away, pain subsides, ice, water; and in the end only the thread remains...
(learn more about the artist at "object of the week")

Filtered coffee began its long successful run in 1908, when Amalie Auguste Melitta Bentz became frustrated by the coffee grounds that kept settling at the bottom of her cup.
(learn more at "object of the week")

While German folk wisdom already claims that chimney sweeps bring you good luck, this master of her trade jokes that "a female chimney sweep brings double the good luck."
(learn more at "portrait of the week")

This stack of magnetic disks was built with ten 14 inch disks and reading heads in between. It was developed in the 1970s to increase the storage capacity and speed of data processing and was controlled with micro programs for the first time.
Lender: DATEV e.G., Nürnberg.

With our new exhibition we celebrate diversity and inclusion while pointing out perspectives of equality for women of all ages and different professions in the field of technics and science.

 Raketenschnell seid ihr in den letzten Wochen in der digitalen Welt angekommen. Wir möchten gemeinsam mit euch diese digitale Welt entdecken. Hier die 1. Einheit/Robot-Aufgabe

 "International Museum Day" 2020

Stone, Terra Sigillata, colored body, chandelier - 17x17x19cm
The 2mm-thin clay strips, twisted into spirals, appear like twisted cords. The spiral structure maintains its structure by itself, like threads that interlock and stabilize each other.

Girls and young women are increasingly encouraged to turn to an education in engineering and technology. Our exhibition will feature distinguished female pioneers from the metropolitan region as well as women who currently hold positions in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) and technical trade.