Is it possible to examine the role of women in technology from the perspective of art, or more precisely through the lens that art has provided to computer science since its origins? This is what the exhibition Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960-1991, curated by Michelle Cotton with the assistance of Sarah Beaumont, sought to achieve. Presented at the Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg (MUDAM) from 20 September 2024 to 2 February 2025, the exhibition showed more than 100 works of 48 women who, over the span of three decades, created computer-generated images, music, and texts in collaboration with mathematicians, computer scientists, and engineers. The aim of bringing together this dense body of work within a single institutional museum space was also to reposition and reframe the misrecognised or disregarded experimentation of women artists with computer technology.
Re-framing women’s roles: Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960-1991 at MUDAM Luxembourg
Lorenzo Lazzari
2025-01-01
Abstract
Is it possible to examine the role of women in technology from the perspective of art, or more precisely through the lens that art has provided to computer science since its origins? This is what the exhibition Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960-1991, curated by Michelle Cotton with the assistance of Sarah Beaumont, sought to achieve. Presented at the Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg (MUDAM) from 20 September 2024 to 2 February 2025, the exhibition showed more than 100 works of 48 women who, over the span of three decades, created computer-generated images, music, and texts in collaboration with mathematicians, computer scientists, and engineers. The aim of bringing together this dense body of work within a single institutional museum space was also to reposition and reframe the misrecognised or disregarded experimentation of women artists with computer technology.
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