Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991 explores the history of digital art through a feminist lens, highlighting the women who used computers as both a medium and a subject. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at Mudam Luxembourg and Kunsthalle Wien, it traces the contributions of pioneering artists who engaged in computational practices before the advent of the World Wide Web.
The book’s typographic scheme takes inspiration from makeshift type compositions created in early coding and word processing softwares. The cover text is constructed from parentheses in Susan Kare’s Monaco typeface – an homage to the artist and typographer whose work became emblematic of the microcomputer revolution’s digital aesthetics. The internal colour palette is inspired by thermal fax paper, referencing both the work of numerous artists featured in the exhibition and publication, as well as ephemeral materials produced during this period.
The book was published in English and German, with green and white covers, respectively.
Photography: Ed Park
