CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/10/2025

An Historic Survey on Women, Art and Computing

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.