VALIE EXPORT (1940, Linz, Austria) began her series of ‘digital photographs’ in 1989, marking a significant shift in her artistic practice by incorporating digital tools within her work. This series explored dichotomies such as culture/nature and masculine/feminine, as well as the positioning of human and female subjects within the constructed social body, often symbolised by urban environments. She explains: ‘I photographed body configurations in architecture and in nature and later started processing them using a computer. They were very simple programs. I wanted to connect the representations of the city employing a digital medium as well as a photographic, analogue one. I was interested in drawing on the computer. That was nothing new. But I wanted to combine photography and the computer on the one hand, and my body and the city on the other.’