Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960-1991 is the first exhibition to study the history of digital art from a feminist perspective. This one-day symposium, organised jointly with TU Wien, offers the opportunity to gain insight to the subject via highly distinguished academics and artists. A series of presentations and panel discussions, which will be held in English, will bring together experts from the field of art and science structured in two thematic sessions: Zeros and Ones, Computing before Microprocessing and From the Electronic Cottage to the Virtual World. The emphasis will be on the contribution of women to the development of computers in general and digital art in particular.
Speakers: Gudrun Bielz, Inge Borchardt, Michelle Cotton, Anna Bella Geiger, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Gerti Kappel, Laura Kovács, Katalin Ladik, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Margit Rosen, Sylvia Roubaud, Ruth Schnell, Nina Sobell, Tamiko Thiel, Zsofi Valyi-Nagy, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Ina Wagner
The event will be held in English.
Free admission.
The symposium is fully booked. A recording is available online.
Programme
09:00–09:30 Registration & coffee
09:30–10:00 Welcome Jasmin Gruendling-Riener, Vice-Rector TU Wien, Michelle Cotton, Artistic Director Kunsthalle Wien, and Laura Kovács, TU Wien Informatics & WPI
10:00–10:30 Margit Rosen, Beyond Attitude: Women in Computer Art in the 1960s, keynote
10:30–11:30 Session 1: Zeros and Ones, Computing before Microprocessing
- Ina Wagner, Gender and Technology at Work: from Workplace Studies to Social Justice in Design, presentation, 30 min.
- Zsofi Valyi-Nagy, ‘A Conversational Method’: Vera Molnár’s Experiments in Mainframe Computing, presentation, 30 min.
11:30–12:00 Q&A moderated by Philipp Steger
12:00–13:15 Lunch
13:15–13:45 Keynote by Gerti Kappel, Dean TU Informatics
13:45–15:15 Session 2: From the Electronic Cottage to the Virtual World
- Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, The Right Un-Depth, presentation, 20 min.
- Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, From Polygons to Digital Humans: The Art & Science of Virtual Beings, presentation, 30 min.
- Tamiko Thiel, Imagining AI in the 1980s: Envisioning the Connection Machine AI Supercomputer, presentation, 20 min.
15:15–15:45 Q&A moderated by Tamiko Thiel
15:45–16:15 Coffee break
16:15–17:15 Closing remarks, Radical Software artists’ panel chaired by Michelle Cotton with: Gudrun Bielz, Inge Borchardt, Anna Bella Geiger, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Katalin Ladik, Sylvia Roubaud, Ruth Schnell, Nina Sobell, Tamiko Thiel, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
17:15–18:00 Drinks and exchange with speakers, panelists and guests
Exhibition
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