Making/Breaking the Binary: Women, Art & Technology (1968-85) Opening Reception

8 Oct 2017
4pm - 7pm
Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, 333 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia

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Dara Birmbaum, Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman, 1978-79, 5:50 min, color, sound. Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix

Curator Kelsey-Halliday Johnson holds an opening reception for her exhibition Making/Breaking the Binary: Women, Art & Technology (1968-85). Part of a multi-part project, the exhibition surveys a generation of pioneering female artists and relating their work to the technology innovators who helped shape the information age. Making/Breaking the Binary includes works by visual artists such as Jennifer Bartlett and Lynda Benglis, and video and media art pioneers Sonia Landy Sheridan, Joan Jonas, Lynda Benglis, Shigeko Kubota, and Dara Birnbaum.