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In conjunction with ATA’s current gallery exhibition, Copper Giloth’s Feminist Computer Art, we invite you to a screening of Copper Giloth’s video work, followed by a conversation between the artist and alex cruse. The films will be on display through May 31, 2026.

Screening room:
Ballyoid – Cardioids (1979)
Skippy Peanut Butter Jars (1980)
AS I SAID (1980)
Alphabet Song of A Young Girl (1986)
The Red Table (1986)

Window Gallery:
Childhood Logic (1980)
Modeling the Female Body: A Survey of Computer-Generated Women 1978-1993 (1994)

still: Modeling the Female Body: A Survey of Computer-Generated Women 1978-1993 (1994).
All videos courtesy of Microscope Gallery.

About the exhibition: 

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 – originally curated by Dr. Helena Shaskevich – 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.

About the Artist:

Copper Giloth lives and works between Amherst, MA, and Aix-en-Provence, France. She had a solo exhibition of her animations and drawings at the Microscope Gallery in New York City from June 5 to July 11, 2025. In the fall of 2025, her work was included in the exhibition TOMORROWS – FOLDING, FLEXING, AND EXPANDING at the Palazzo del Capitano in Verona, Italy. In October 2025, she participated in a panel titled “Generating Bodies: The Art of Modeling Venus,” a FEMGEN event at Artverse Gallery during the 2025 Art Basel Paris week. In December, one of her animations was included in the 2025 Eyeworks Experimental Animation Series at the Museum of the Moving Image in NYC.

In August 2025, Helena Shaskevich published an interview with Giloth in the Women’s Art Journal, and in September 2025, Peter Bauman published an interview with Giloth in the online journal Le Random. In November 2024, her work and an interview were included in the exhibition: Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

In February 2020, she launched “Labyrinth-of-Fables VR,” an app that lets users experience the now-destroyed 17th-century Labyrinth of Versailles. Much of her early work was among the pioneering efforts in the then-early field of computer art and computer graphics, and she is a featured contributor to *New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts* (2018), published by the University of Illinois Press. She organized the first two international ACM Siggraph Art Show competitions in 1982 and 1983. Giloth is a Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her work has been screened and exhibited in numerous group and solo shows across the USA, Europe, and Japan.

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Osbert Parker is a three time BAFTA nominated director who is best known for creating stories that use experimental animation & innovative film techniques. His films combine photo cut-out animation with objects and live action to create one-of-a-kind imaginary landscapes in mixed media short films, commercials, TV entertainment & online content.

His award winning commercial credits include such clients as Coca-Cola, Nike, Budweiser, Orange, The World Wildlife Fund and Gatorade and TV clients including the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and MTV. In 2022 Parker was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Main Title Design on Lisey’s Story. He is currently an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts.

Osbert Parker will be in conversation with Meg and Christoph after the screening.

Eyewash is a series of animated screenings and conversations organized by Meghana Bisineer and Christoph Steger. The series is supported by CCA Animation.