Edited with text by Michelle Cotton. Text by Laura Amann, Sarah Beaumont, Rhea Dall, Ramona Heinlein, Hannah Marynissen, Astrid Peterle, Carlotta Pierleoni, Andrea Popelka, Clémentine Proby, Tina Rivers Ryan, Margit Rosen, Jade Saber, Bettina Steinbrügge.
A groundbreaking account of female artists' engagement with digital media in the decades before the World Wide Web
This historical survey focuses on female artists who were either working with computer technologies or taking up the subject of computing and cybernetics in their work in the early years of the computer revolution. It documents a lesser-known history of the inception of digital art, countering conventional narratives by focusing entirely on female figures. Comprising more than 100 works by 50 artists from 14 countries, it spans a period from the first years of integrated circuit computing in the 1960s to the "microcomputer revolution," which led to the birth of home computing in the 1980s. This extensive publication includes three new essays by Tina Rivers Ryan, Margit Rosen and the exhibition's curator, Michelle Cotton. It also features a richly illustrated timeline covering the period between 1613 and 1991 and includes 27 new interviews with artists and over 200 illustrations.
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Featuring more than 100 works by 50 international artists—including Dara Birnbaum, Doris Chase, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Isa Genzken, Alison Knowles and Barbara T. Smith, to name a few—new release Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing, 1960–1991 examines the pioneering role of women in digital art—from 1960s integrated circuit computing to the “microcomputer revolution” that brought personal computers to homes in the 1980s. Pictured here, scientific progenitor Margaret Hamilton standing next to listings of the software she and her team at MIT produced for the Apollo project, 1969. Hamilton introduced the now ubiquitous term “software engineering” to “legitimize software development as an engineering discipline.” NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer was eventually used by astronauts to land the Apollo 11 spaceflight mission to the moon. continue to blog
FORMAT: Pbk, 9.75 x 12 in. / 224 pgs / 144 color / 62 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $55.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $78 ISBN: 9783753307343 PUBLISHER: Walther König, Köln AVAILABLE: 9/23/2025 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: FLAT40 PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA LA ASIA AU/NZ AFR
Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991
Published by Walther König, Köln. Edited with text by Michelle Cotton. Text by Laura Amann, Sarah Beaumont, Rhea Dall, Ramona Heinlein, Hannah Marynissen, Astrid Peterle, Carlotta Pierleoni, Andrea Popelka, Clémentine Proby, Tina Rivers Ryan, Margit Rosen, Jade Saber, Bettina Steinbrügge.
A groundbreaking account of female artists' engagement with digital media in the decades before the World Wide Web
This historical survey focuses on female artists who were either working with computer technologies or taking up the subject of computing and cybernetics in their work in the early years of the computer revolution. It documents a lesser-known history of the inception of digital art, countering conventional narratives by focusing entirely on female figures. Comprising more than 100 works by 50 artists from 14 countries, it spans a period from the first years of integrated circuit computing in the 1960s to the "microcomputer revolution," which led to the birth of home computing in the 1980s. This extensive publication includes three new essays by Tina Rivers Ryan, Margit Rosen and the exhibition's curator, Michelle Cotton. It also features a richly illustrated timeline covering the period between 1613 and 1991 and includes 27 new interviews with artists and over 200 illustrations.
