The first computers were programmed by women, 75 years ago, and women wrote the software behind Neil Armstrong’s ‘giant leap for mankind’. Since then, IT has become ever more important and gradually turned into a field for nerds where women seem out of place altogether. But the tide is turning: a new wave of Computer Grrrls presents itself in MU, from Saturday 20 July to Sunday 6 October 2019.

The exhibition highlights the historical role women played in the development of computer science but it also offers self­ defence instructions against technology, outlines the relationship between gender and algorithms and reveals dazzling visions of the future. 22 artists obliterate the existing representation of women and computers. They de­colonialise the internet and reclaim their place in the technological domain. Meanwhile, with each work, they create room for new forms and ideas, for dialogue and reflection. Hilarious, poetic, critical and visionary: this is Grrrl Power.

The Computer Grrrls are:

Morehshin Allahyari
Manetta Berends
Nadja Buttendorf
Elisabeth Caravella
Jennifer Chan
Aleksandra Domanovic
Louise Drulhe
Darsha Hewitt
Lauren Huret
Hyphen-Labs
Dasha Ilina
Mary Maggic
Caroline Martel
Lauren Moffatt
Simone C. Niquille
Jenny Odell
Elisa Giardina Papa
Tabita Rezaire
Erica Scourti
Suzanne Treister
Lu Yang