Radical Software
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (1951) was part of the exhibition Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991. Her presented film animation Message (1988) was developed from drawings made at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Free University in Brussels. Van Kerckhoven had been using softcore pornographic images of women in her work since the late 1970s and subsequently began to translate some of her drawings into film animations. In 1983 Van Kerckhoven was invited to the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Luc Steels, the scientist who founded it and with whom she first collaborated in 1976. Working at the laboratory offered her the opportunity to access computers and build upon her broader practice of merging the erotic with machine fetishism.