From 1969 Miriam Schapiro (1923, Toronto – 2015, Hampton Bays, New York) used computers to create preliminary sketches for a series of hard-edged, abstract paintings. Maddy Henkin describes Schapiro’s process: ‘Each piece began with a simple hand-drawn shape related to her central core imagery, which an assistant would translate into numbers representing points on a grid. Custom software would use these points to rotate the shape in space, generating fifty views of the original drawing.’ The Palace at 3:00 or A Meander(1971) is typical of Schapiro’s computer paintings in its evocation of female imagery via interlocking forms. It was painted in the same year that Schapiro moved to Los Angeles to run the Feminist Art Program at California Institute of the Arts with Judy Chicago. The following year they opened Womanhouse (1972), an artwork that has been credited with signalling ‘the beginning of the international feminist art movement’.