A spokesperson says---
“..Motherboards, an exhibition that explores the foundational yet overlooked contributions of underrecognized women to the technology industry. Featuring artists from California and beyond, Motherboards creatively maps an extensive network of women’s work in technology, connecting Silicon Valley’s laboratories and mythic garages to vital work performed at looms, desks, kitchens, and assembly lines across the globe.
...Though their stories are often omitted from official histories of technology, women—and particularly women of color—have long played critical roles building and sustaining the global technological industry now associated with Silicon Valley. The artists in Motherboards reclaim the agency of these otherwise anonymized laborers to give greater visibility to overlooked stories: of the women who served as the first human computers and programmers; of those who work in electronics factories in Silicon Valley and beyond; or of those who contribute to today’s global network of ghost workers, tagging data sets for AI technologies or moderating content on social media platforms. In doing so, the exhibition continues a conversation that began in 1997, at a symposium held at SJMA, called Chik Tek 97. Organized by then San José State University (SJSU) graduate students Lisa Milosevich and Monica Vasilescu and co-sponsored by the CADRE Institute at SJSU, the symposium addressed the impacts of emerging technologies on art and society, and brought together conflicting perspectives on the state of gender equity in the fields of art and technology in the 1990s. Thirty years later—at a time when women continue to struggle for equal representation in leadership and technical roles at major tech companies—Motherboards revisits the symposium’s inquiry about the intersections of women, technology, and art to tell a more expansive history about the technologies we interact with daily..."
