Radical Software
Symposium
Margit Rosen

Kunsthalle Wien and TU Wien hosted a symposium on 28.2.2025 accompanying the exhibition Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991. It explored the thematic questions underlying the concept of the exhibition in depth together with highly distinguished female researchers from the fields of art and science.

Media historian, Margit Rosen, explores the profound influence of women and art in computing from the 1960s onward. In her keynote, Beyond Attitude: Women in Computer Art in the 1960s, Rosen sheds light on how women have shaped ideas, designs and modes of thinking in computer science – despite their historically low representation in the field.