Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960鈥�1991
Feb 28, 2025 - May 25, 2025
Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960鈥�1991 examines the pioneering role of women in digital art. Comprising more than one hundred works by fifty artists, the exhibition includes painting, sculpture, installation, film, performance and many computer-generated drawings and texts. Focusing on women who were among the first to use the computer 鈥� mainframe and minicomputers 鈥� as a tool for art making. They are accompanied by other artists who made the computer their subject or worked in a computational way with algorithmic or mathematically based systems. The exhibition begins with works made in academic or industrial computer labs and ends with others made on the first personal computers in the last years before the World Wide Web made the internet publicly accessible. Set within a period that was also marked by the second wave of feminism, it documents a lesser-known history of the inception of digital art, countering conventional narratives on art and technology by focusing entirely on female figures.
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Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960鈥�1991 examines the pioneering role of women in digital art. Comprising more than one hundred works by fifty artists, the exhibition includes painting, sculpture, installation, film, performance and many computer-generated drawings and texts. Focusing on women who were among the first to use the computer 鈥� mainframe and minicomputers 鈥� as a tool for art making. They are accompanied by other artists who made the computer their subject or worked in a computational way with algorithmic or mathematically based systems. The exhibition begins with works made in academic or industrial computer labs and ends with others made on the first personal computers in the last years before the World Wide Web made the internet publicly accessible. Set within a period that was also marked by the second wave of feminism, it documents a lesser-known history of the inception of digital art, countering conventional narratives on art and technology by focusing entirely on female figures.
Artists on show
- Agnes Denes
- Alison Knowles
- Analivia Cordeiro
- Anna Bella Geiger
- Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven
- Barbara Buckner
- Barbara Hammer
- Barbara T. Smith
- Beryl Korot
- Betty Danon
- Bia Davou
- Channa Horwitz
- Charles Jeffries Bangert
- Charlotte Johannesson
- Colette Bangert
- Dara Birnbaum
- Deborah Remington
- Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
- Doris Chase
- Elena Asins Rodríguez
- Grace C. Hertlein
- Gretchen Bender
- Gudrun Bielz
- Hanne Darboven
- Hervé Huitric
- Inge Borchardt
- Irma Hünerfauth
- Isa Genzken
- Joan Truckenbrod
- Katalin Ladik
- Katherine Nash
- Liliane Lijn
- Lillian Schwartz
- Lily Greenham
- Lynn Hershman Leeson
- Miriam Schapiro
- Monique Nahas
- Nina Sobell
- Radical Software
- Rebecca Allen
- Rosemarie Trockel
- Ruth Leavitt
- Ruth Schnell
- Samia A. Halaby
- Sonia Sheridan
- Sonya Rapoport
- Sylvia Roubaud
- Tamiko Thiel
- Ulla Wiggen
- Valie Export
- Vera Molnár
Contact details
Sunday
11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Tuesday - Wednesday
11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Thursday
11:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Friday - Saturday
11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Museumsplatz 1 Vienna, Austria 1040
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