Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991 will be the first of a series of group surveys based on original research. It presents the work of approximately fifty artists including painting, sculpture, installation, photography, film and a large number of computer-generated drawings and texts. This exhibition adopts a feminist perspective on the history of artists’ experiments in the pre-internet era of computing.

It will be accompanied by a new publication including 27 artist interviews.

The exhibition Radical Software: Women, Art and Computing 1960-1991 is curated by Michelle Cotton and organized by Kunstalle Wien, Vienna, and Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean.

Artists:

Rebecca Allen (b. 1953, Detroit), Elena Asins (b. 1940, Madrid – d. 2015, Navarra, Spain), Colette Stuebe Bangert (b. 1934, Columbus, Ohio) & Charles Jeffries Bangert (b. 1938, Fargo, North Dakota – d. 2019, Lawrence, Kansas), Gretchen Bender (b. 1951, Seaford, Delaware – d. 2004, New York), Gudrun Bielz (b. 1954, Linz, Austria) & Ruth Schnell (b. 1956, Feldkirch, Austria), Dara Birnbaum (b. 1946, New York), Inge Borchardt (b. 1935, Szczecin, Poland, formerly Stettin, Germany), Barbara Buckner (b. 1950, Chicago), Doris Chase (b. 1923 – d. 2008, Seattle, Washington), Analívia Cordeiro (b. 1954, São Paulo), Betty Danon (b. 1927, Istanbul – d. 2002, Milan), Hanne Darboven (b. 1941, Munich – d. 2009, Hamburg), Bia Davou (b. 1932 – d. 1996, Athens), Agnes Denes (b. 1938, Budapest), VALIE EXPORT (b. 1940, Linz, Austria), Anna Bella Geiger (1933, Rio de Janeiro), Isa Genzken (b. 1948, Bad Oldesloe, Germany), Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (b. 1965, Strasbourg, France), Lily Greenham (b. 1924, Vienna – d. 2001, London), Samia Halaby (b. 1936, Jerusalem), Barbara Hammer (b. 1939, Los Angeles – d. 2019, New York), Lynn Hershman Leeson (b. 1941, Cleveland, Ohio), Grace C. Hertlein (b. 1924, Chicago – d. 2015, Chico, California), Channa Horwitz (b. 1932 – d. 2013, Los Angeles), Irma Hünerfauth (b. 1907, Donaueschingen, Germany – d. 1998, Kreuth, Germany), Charlotte Johannesson (b. 1943, Malmö), Alison Knowles (b. 1933, New York), Beryl Korot (b. 1945, New York), Katalin Ladik (b. 1942, Novi Sad, Serbia), Ruth Leavitt (b. 1944, St. Paul, Minnesota), Liliane Lijn (b. 1939, New York), Vera Molnár (b. 1924, Budapest – d. 2023, Paris), Monique Nahas (b. 1940, Paris) & Hervé Huitric (b. 1945, Paris), Katherine Nash (b. 1910 – 1982, Minneapolis), Sonya Rapoport (b. 1923, Brookline – d. 2015, Berkeley), Deborah Remington (b. 1930, Haddonfield, New Jersey – d. 2010, Moorestown, New Jersey), Sylvia Roubaud (b. 1941, Munich), Miriam Schapiro (b. 1923, Toronto – d. 2015, Hampton Bays, New York), Lillian Schwartz (b. 1927, Cincinnati, Ohio), Sonia Sheridan (b. 1925, Newark, Ohio – d. 2021, Hanover, Main), Nina Sobell (b. 1947, Patchogue, New York), Barbara T. Smith (b. 1931, Pasadena, California), Tamiko Thiel (b. 1957, Oakland, California), Rosemarie Trockel (b. 1952, Schwerte, Germany), Joan Truckenbrod (b. 1945, Greensboro, North Carolina), Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (b. 1951, Antwerp), Ulla Wiggen (b. 1942, Stockholm)