Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit - Art, Feminism, and Digital Technology

In Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit, Judith K. Brodsky makes a ground-breaking intellectual leap by connecting feminist art theory with the rise of digital art. Technology has commonly been considered the domain of white men but-unrecognized until this book-female artists, including women artists of color, have been innovators in the digital art arena as early as the late 1960s when computers first became available outside of government and university laboratories.

Brodsky, an important figure in the feminist art world, looks at various forms of visual art that are quickly becoming the dominant art of the 21st century, examining the work of artists in such media as video (from pioneers Joan Jonas and Adrian Piper to Hannah Black today), websites and social networking (from Vera Frenkel to Ann Hirsch), virtual and augmented reality art (Jenny Holzer to Hyphen-Lab), and art using artificial intelligence. She also documents the work of female-identifying, queer, transgender, and Black and brown artists including Legacy Russell and Micha Cárdenas, who are not only innovators in digital art but also transforming technology itself under the impact of feminist theory.

In this radical study, Brodsky argues that their work frees technology from its patriarchal context, illustrating the crucial need to transform all areas of our culture in order to achieve the goals of #MeToo, Black Lives Matter (BLM), and Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) representation, to empower female-identifying and Black and brown people, and to document their contributions to human history.

Sommario

List of Illustrations
Preface

Introduction

1. Reinserting Women into the History of Digital Art: Pioneer Feminist Artists
2. The 1970s: Feminism and Digital Art Inside and Outside the Academy
3. Reimagining the Binary Nature of Digital Technology
4. Using Websites and Browsers to Deliver Social Justice Messages
5. Provoking the Patriarchy Through Digital Language
6. Queerness, Race, and Digital Art
7. The Avatar
8. The Female Body Disappears
9. Creating Feminist Paradigms of Knowledge through Digital Technology
10. Surveillance
11. Feminist Artists and the Gaming Industry
12. Japanese Feminism, Video Games, and Anime
13. Artificial Intelligence (AR), Facial Recognition, and Virtual Reality (VR)
14. Digital Public Art and Augmented Reality (AR)

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Info autore

Judith K. Brodsky is Distinguished Professor Emerita (1978-2001) in the Department of Visual Arts at Rutgers University, USA. She is the founder of the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, established by Brodsky in 1986, renamed the Brodsky Center in her honor in 2006, and now located at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Brodsky is also the co- founder of the Rutgers University Institute for Women and Art (the Rutgers Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities) and The Feminist Art Project. She is a former president of the College Art Association, the Women's Caucus for Art, and ArtTable. Her publications include The Fertile Crescent, Gender, Art, and Society (2012) and Junctures in Women's Leadership: The Arts (2018).

Riassunto

In Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit, Judith K. Brodsky makes a ground-breaking intellectual leap by connecting feminist art theory with the rise of digital art. Technology has commonly been considered the domain of white men but—unrecognized until this book—female artists, including women artists of color, have been innovators in the digital art arena as early as the late 1960s when computers first became available outside of government and university laboratories.

Brodsky, an important figure in the feminist art world, looks at various forms of visual art that are quickly becoming the dominant art of the 21st century, examining the work of artists in such media as video (from pioneers Joan Jonas and Adrian Piper to Hannah Black today), websites and social networking (from Vera Frenkel to Ann Hirsch), virtual and augmented reality art (Jenny Holzer to Hyphen-Lab), and art using artificial intelligence. She also documents the work of female-identifying, queer, transgender, and Black and brown artists including Legacy Russell and Micha Cárdenas, who are not only innovators in digital art but also transforming technology itself under the impact of feminist theory.

In this radical study, Brodsky argues that their work frees technology from its patriarchal context, illustrating the crucial need to transform all areas of our culture in order to achieve the goals of #MeToo, Black Lives Matter (BLM), and Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) representation, to empower female-identifying and Black and brown people, and to document their contributions to human history.

Prefazione

Documents the work of women and transgender artists who are transforming technology under the impact of feminist theory.

Testo aggiuntivo

With the explosion of interest in digital art recently, Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit: Art, Feminism, and Digital Technology provides a needed overview of the creative and critical work that artists in this realm are doing to disrupt hegemonic forces.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Judith K Brodsky, Judith K. Brodsky
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 07.10.2021
• EAN: 9781350243484
• ISBN: 978-1-350-24348-4
• Pagine: 272
• Dimensioni: 160 mm x 236 mm x 24 mm
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte; Media Studies, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, ART / Women Artists, Feminism & feminist theory, Other graphic art forms, Feminism and feminist theory, Other graphic or visual art forms