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Dara Birnbaum, ‘Pop-Pop Video: Kojak/Wang’, 1980 © Courtesy of Dara Birnbaum and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York
Radical Software

Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991

Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991 surveys the history of digital art from a feminist perspective, focusing on women who worked with computers as a tool or subject and artists who worked in an inherently computational way.

Comprising more than 100 works by fifty artists from fourteen countries, it spans a period from the first years of integrated circuit computing in the 1960s to the ‘microcomputer revolution’, which led to the birth of home computing in the 1980s. During these three decades the computer migrated from the laboratory to private, domestic space. A principally analogue exhibition about digital art, the works on display precede the rise of the World Wide Web and the proliferation of digital information and images that ensued and dramatically reshaped the way artists work to this day. This same period is also referred to as the second wave of feminism, an era that popularised an (albeit incomplete) idea of gender equality.

Credits

Curators:
  • Michelle Cotton, assisted by Sarah Beaumont

Artists:
  • Rebecca Allen
    Elena Asins
    Colette Stuebe Bangert & Charles Jeffries Bangert
    Gretchen Bender
    Gudrun Bielz & Ruth Schnell
    Dara Birnbaum
    Inge Borchardt
    Barbara Buckner
    Doris Chase
    Analívia Cordeiro
    Betty Danon
    Hanne Darboven
    Bia Davou
    Agnes Denes
    VALIE EXPORT
    Anna Bella Geiger
    Isa Genzken
    Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
    Lily Greenham
    Samia Halaby
    Barbara Hammer
    Lynn Hershman Leeson
    Grace C. Hertlein
    Channa Horwitz
    Irma Hünerfauth
    Charlotte Johannesson
    Alison Knowles
    Beryl Korot
    Katalin Ladik
    Ruth Leavitt
    Liliane Lijn
    Vera Molnár
    Monique Nahas & Hervé Huitric
    Katherine Nash
    Sonya Rapoport
    Deborah Remington
    Sylvia Roubaud
    Miriam Schapiro
    Lillian Schwartz
    Sonia Sheridan
    Nina Sobell
    Barbara T. Smith
    Tamiko Thiel
    Rosemarie Trockel
    Joan Truckenbrod
    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
    Ulla Wiggen

The exhibition is organised by Mudam Luxembourg and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna.

Image: Dara Birnbaum, Pop-Pop Video: Kojak/Wang, 1980 © Courtesy of Dara Birnbaum and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York