Radical Software - Women, Art & Computing 1960-1991 - Softcover

Ryan, Tina Rivers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3753307343 ISBN 13: 9783753307343

Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2024

Synopsis

A groundbreaking account of female artists' engagement with digital media in the decades before the World Wide Web

This historical survey focuses on female artists who were either working with computer technologies or taking up the subject of computing and cybernetics in their work in the early years of the computer revolution. It documents a lesser-known history of the inception of digital art, countering conventional narratives by focusing entirely on female figures. Comprising more than 100 works by 50 artists from 14 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. This extensive publication includes three new essays by Tina Rivers Ryan, Margit Rosen and the exhibition's curator, Michelle Cotton. It also features a richly illustrated timeline covering the period between 1613 and 1991 and includes 27 new interviews with artists and over 200 illustrations.

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The publication accompanies the exhibition; a pre-internet era, historical survey of female artists who were either working with computer technologies, or taking up the subject of computing and cybernetics in their work. 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.

Published by Mudam Luxembourg, Kunsthalle Wien and Verlag der Buchhandlug Walther und Franz König, this extensive publication includes three new essays by Tina Rivers Ryan, Margit Rosen, and the exhibition's curator, Michelle Cotton. It also features a richly illustrated timeline covering the period between 1613 and 1991 and includes twenty-seven new interviews with artists and over 200 illustrations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3753307343
• ISBN 13: 9783753307343
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224