Description
Wonder Women :: Art and Technology 1968 - 2008, proposes to explore multiple generations of artists whose creative work is integrally engaged with technology. The impetus for this Spring 2008 seminar is the timely need to consider the vanguard generation of women who have had a profound and often understated influence in the creative realm of Art and Technology. The forty-year span from 1968 – 2008 highlights their work and their influence on the artistic inquiry of the two generations of women who follow.
Artists such as Steina Vasulka, Pauline Oliveros, Harriet Casdin-Silver, and Joan Jonas, as well as writers and curators such as Jasia Reichardt, represent the first of three waves of women. Their work was followed by the subsequent, second wave of artists including Gail Wight, Andrea Polli, and Kathy High who have extended these hybrid visions of electronic culture, along with the third, emerging generation of Wonder Women, such as Sabrina Raaf, Amy Youngs, and Kelly Dobson who are deeply immersed in the conceptual, aesthetic and social dimensions of art that employ digital technology as the content, media and substance of their art practice.
A hybrid format, interweaving readings, reflections, discussion, explorations with technologies, and direct experiences with contemporary art and artists will comprise the course content. Related events include: the exhibition “culturing nature :: culturing technology” at the Nash Gallery, the Wonder Women :: Art & Technology series of events the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art.