About the Project

We are looking at the role of women in spirituality and technology in order to reframe and reclaim how we perceive the history of related cultural and technological movements, and how they have shaped the present. This project focuses on the rise of spiritual, technological, and feminist movements starting in the 1800s in North America due to the increased access to new spiritual texts and desire to raise one's conscious awareness in the face of modernity. We aim to facilitate conversations and further study with communal experiences, an accompanying website, and customized oracle deck. We hope this will be of use to those who are interested in critically examining and reimagining technology in the future as the idea of one's spiritual well-being is often a point of anxiety and the balance of power remains uncertain.

This project is guided by the theoretical exercise of teaching a gynoid (feminized android) with the knowledge of women’s roles in the histories of religion and computation, with the goal of reprogramming her to help her understand the past in order to help guide us in remaking the future.

This is the final project for the Fall 2023 Advanced Projects in Digital Humanities Class at Pratt Institute's School of Information.