Digital Art at the Interface of Technology and Feminism

Abstract

This chapter examines how digital art engages with feminist approaches to making sense of technology. Feminist historians of technology in particular employ a range of ideas associated with feminist theory and research methodologies to understand women's involvement with technology in the past and present. These ideas illuminate the significance of technology in regard to the works of art and projects discussed in the chapter. At the outset, however, they compel us to inquire why authors lack accounts of women who participated in the first generation of artists to embrace digital computing. In regard to the 1980s through the 1990s and beyond, they clarify why and how artists who considered themselves feminist created alternatives to visual representations of women appearing in popular digital culture. Subsequently, the authors find that in their work women digital artists have engaged with networked feminism, DIY feminism, technofeminism, hacktivist pedagogy, and fabriculture.

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