On view through May 2026 in ATA’s Galleries: short films of legendary video artist Copper Giloth
Copper Giloth, Modeling the Female Body
Also on view:
Ballyoid Cardioids (1979)
Skippy Peanut Butter Jars (1980)
AS I SAID (1980)
Childhood Logic (1980)
Alphabet Song of A Young Girl (1986)
The Red Table (1986)
Modeling the Female Body: A Survey of Computer Generated Women, 1980-1993 (1994)
Gallery hours: 2-5pm on Sundays in May
or, request an appointment to view: alex@atasite.org
Copper Giloth‘s Feminist Computer Art explores a formative decade in the work of artist Copper Giloth, tracing her pioneering contributions to early computer art. After encountering computers while working as a welder in Massachusetts, Giloth pursued graduate study at the University of Illinois Chicago’s groundbreaking Electronic Visualization Lab, becoming part of the first generation of Chicago new media artists. During this period, she also embraced feminist liberation politics, which became central to her emerging artistic approach.
Focusing on the late 1970s through the 1980s, the exhibition highlights Giloth’s experimental integration of video and computer graphics, emphasizing her innovative use of programming as a creative medium. Her works investigate the expressive potential of code, foregrounding elements such as the glitch, repetition, and the generative possibilities of early programming. Through these strategies, Giloth transforms digital systems into sites of visual and conceptual exploration.
Crucially, Giloth’s engagement with emerging technologies constitutes a feminist practice. Working within a field historically dominated by men, she asserts authorship over computational tools while challenging assumptions about gender and technical expertise. Her use of code as an open, generative system resists fixed hierarchies and embraces multiplicity, aligning with feminist commitments to collaboration, process, and the destabilization of authority.
By revisiting this pivotal era, Copper Giloth‘s Feminist Computer Art underscores Giloth’s influential role in shaping the language of early computer art and affirms the lasting impact of feminist perspectives within technological practice.
–Helena Shaskevich,
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Final Girls Berlin Film Festival
Final Girls Berlin Film Festival showcases horror cinema that’s directed, written, or produced by women, trans, and non-binary filmmakers. We are committed to creating space for female and gender non-conforming voices and visions — whether monstrous, heroic, or some messy combination of the two — in the horror genre.
Program:
Drosera (23:23)
Directed by Maud Carpentier & Boris Tilquin, Belgium, 2025
Alice, a sixteen-year-old motocross champion, is mysteriously brought back to life by a carnivorous plant after a violent trauma. But as she struggles to find her footing again, she discovers she now has extraordinary powers.
Take Care (11:26)
Directed by Brittany Ashley, United States, 2025
A woman deliberately injures herself just to be in the care of a particular ER nurse. But when she’s discharged from the hospital earlier than expected, she needs to find a new way to extend her stay.
Jeff (24:34)
Written and directed by Julia Hebner, USA, 2025
On a quiet night, phone sex operator Marcia receives a call from Jeff, a man seeking refuge in the anonymity of the hotline in order to relieve himself of confessions. Marcia is used to the sometimes unsettling proclivities of her callers, but Jeff’s increasingly disturbing admissions unmoor Marcia’s sense of truth and memory and test her limits of empathy and forgiveness.
Content warning: child abuse
Wall Udder (8:34)
Written and directed by Alexandra Hayden, USA, 2025
A woman confronts her repressed feelings of malaise after her partner comes home smelling of milk.
Mango (11:14)
Written and directed by Joan Iyiola, UK/France, 2025
Zadie has fibroids which are morphing inside of her. When a dream job arrives, she is forced to act before the unwanted growths take over.
The Dysphoria (12:56)
Written and directed by Kylie Aoibheann, Australia, 2025
A trans woman performs a Satanic ritual to get a vagina, but unwittingly invites a demonic presence into her home which demands a terrible sacrifice.
Confession (14:29)
Directed by Mai Nakanishi, Japan, 2025
A woman seeks confession from a priest, but as her story unfolds, the priest discovers she harbors terrifying secrets.
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