Research Catalog

Title

Dismantling the Patriarchy, bit by bit : art, feminism, and digital technology / Judith K. Brodsky.

Author

Brodsky, Judith K.

Publication

• London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Description

x, 259 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm

Summary

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 including technology to achieve the goals of the #MeToo, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Black and Asian Minority Ethnicities (BAME), and other global movements to empower female-identifying and Black and brown people, and to document their contributions to human history.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Computer art > Social aspects > 21st century
• Women artists
• Art and technology
• Computer art
• Art and computers
• Feminism and art
• Art and society

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JQE 22-389

ISBN

• 1350243485
• 9781350243484

OCLC

1243352317

Author

Brodsky, Judith K., editor.

Title

Dismantling the Patriarchy, bit by bit : art, feminism, and digital technology / Judith K. Brodsky.

Publisher

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781350243507

Research Call Number

JQE 22-389