Book presentation: Exhibition magazine "COMPUTER GRRRLS"
Online
With Inke Arns, Marie Lechner and Rosa Menkman
The long awaited publication Computer Grrrls is finally here! The exhibition, curated by Inke Arns and Marie Lechner, was shown in 2018-2019 with great success at HMKV in Dortmund, at La Gaité Lyrique in Paris and at MU in Eindhoven. Neural called it nothing less than "a landmark exhibition"!
For the book presentation, the editors invited Rosa Menkman to present her essay in the form of a performative lecture. Join us for this online event!
Inke Arns is a curator and the director of HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein in Dortmund, Germany.
Marie Lechner is a curator and teacher-researcher in media archaeology at Ecole Supérieure d'art et de design in Orléans.
Rosa Menkman is a Dutch artist, educator and researcher of resolutions. www.beyondresolution.info
The publication brings together 23 international artistic positions that negotiate the relationship between gender and technology in history and the present. Computer Grrrls explores the complex relationship between women and technology-from the first human computers to the current revival of techno-feminist movements. An illustrated timeline of over 200 entries documents these developments from the 18th century to the present. With contributions by Inke Arns, Claire L. Evans, Elisa Giardina Papa, Marie Lechner, Rosa Menkman, Mimi Onuoha, Cornelia Sollfrank. Design: The Laboratory of Manuel Bürger. Dortmund: Kettler, German, English, 17 x 24 cm, 200 pages, ISBN: 978-3-86206-907-1. More information here
The event will take place on Zoom.
Registration
To receive the login details for the event (platform: Zoom), please register via e-mail at event@hmkv.de.
→ Download the magazine as a free PDF