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