Featured artists: Rebecca Allen (b. 1953, Detroit), Elena Asins (b. 1940, Madrid – d. 2015, Navarra), Colette Stuebe Bangert (b. 1934, Columbus, Ohio) & Charles Jeffries Bangert (b. 1938, Fargo, North Dakota – d. 2019, Lawrence, Kansas), Gretchen Bender (b. 1951, Seaford, Delaware – d. 2004, New York), Gudrun Bielz (b. 1954, Linz) & Ruth Schnell (b. 1956, Feldkirch), Dara Birnbaum (b. 1946, New York), Inge Borchardt (b. 1935, Szczecin, formerly Stettin), Barbara Buckner (b. 1950, Chicago), Doris Chase (b. 1923 – d. 2008, Seattle, Washington), Analívia Cordeiro (b. 1954, São Paulo), Betty Danon (b. 1927, Istanbul – d. 2002, Milan), Hanne Darboven (b. 1941, Munich – d. 2009, Hamburg), Bia Davou (b. 1932 – d. 1996, Athens), Agnes Denes (b. 1938, Budapest), VALIE EXPORT (b. 1940, Linz), Anna Bella Geiger (1933, Rio de Janeiro), Isa Genzken (b. 1948, Bad Oldesloe), Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (b. 1965, Strasbourg), Lily Greenham (b. 1924, Vienna – d. 2001, London), Samia Halaby (b. 1936, Jerusalem), Barbara Hammer (b. 1939, Los Angeles – d. 2019, New York), Lynn Hershman Leeson (b. 1941, Cleveland, Ohio), Grace C. Hertlein (b. 1924, Chicago – d. 2015, Chico, California), Channa Horwitz (b. 1932 – d. 2013, Los Angeles), Irma Hünerfauth (b. 1907, Donaueschingen– d. 1998, Kreuth), Charlotte Johannesson (b. 1943, Malmö), Alison Knowles (b. 1933, New York), Beryl Korot (b. 1945, New York), Katalin Ladik (b. 1942, Novi Sad), Ruth Leavitt (b. 1944, St. Paul, Minnesota – d. 2025, Baltimore, Maryland), Liliane Lijn (b. 1939, New York), Vera Molnár (b. 1924, Budapest – d. 2023, Paris), Monique Nahas (b. 1940, Paris) & Hervé Huitric (b. 1945 – d. 2025, Paris), Katherine Nash (b. 1910 – d. 1982, Minneapolis), Sonya Rapoport (b. 1923, Brookline – d. 2015, Berkeley), Deborah Remington (b. 1930, Haddonfield, New Jersey – d. 2010, Moorestown, New Jersey), Sylvia Roubaud (b. 1941, Munich), Miriam Schapiro (b. 1923, Toronto – d. 2015, Hampton Bays, New York), Lillian Schwartz (b. 1927, Cincinnati, Ohio – d. 2024, Manhattan, New York), Sonia Sheridan (b. 1925, Newark, Ohio – d. 2021, Hanover, Main), Nina Sobell (b. 1947, Patchogue, New York), Barbara T. Smith (b. 1931, Pasadena, California), Tamiko Thiel (b. 1957, Oakland, California), Rosemarie Trockel (b. 1952, Schwerte), Joan Truckenbrod (b. 1945, Greensboro, North Carolina), Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (b. 1951, Antwerp), Ulla Wiggen (b. 1942, Stockholm)
Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991 is the first major survey to explore the pioneering role of women in digital art from a feminist perspective. Bringing together over one hundred works by fifty artists from fourteen countries, the exhibition spans painting, sculpture, installation, film, performance, and a wealth of computer-generated drawings and texts created in the pre-internet eraThe show traces the history of digital art from the early days of mainframe and minicomputers to the dawn of personal computing, set against the backdrop of the second wave of feminism.
