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For decades, research on gender and technology has highlighted the under-representation of women in technology. Although sub-research on the field studying women contributing to free software and hackers cultures is very limited, it also points to women’s low participation rates. However, behind these figures and the discourses that accompany them, other, hidden situations may appear: on the one hand, the existence of some women who do participate and might have been invisible before, on the other the widespread assumption that women are not interested or have an innate inability to engage with technology on a deeper level.

The aim of this animation is to actively oppose the prejudice that there are no significant women behind the development of sciences and technologies. This is the result of a systematic negation and invisibility of women in those specific histories. This drives to a lack of role models which perpetuate the women off-the-loop relation with ICT. Finding and making visible those stories is an important element to re-appropriate historical and collective memory and enable the emergence of new imaginaries which we hoped to be very much radical and feminists!


Thanks to:
Normal c-alas for programming the patch, developing the animation, researching and editing images and being amazingly motivated and creative
Foockinho for patiently editing the numerous images gathered
Electroputas for the music: Ella (RmX ton Once to Open - Ella Fitzgeralt - from the first demo cd / eLeCTRopUtaS YEAR 2005) and thanks also to Osmozer / JT25 for the live music
b01 for making the PD run and for the video export
Reni hofmüller for the translation to german of the animation
IOhannes m zmolnig for making the PD run for the Ministry of hacking
Videohackers for the graphic target
Sydney Padua for letting us use the wonderful images of her comic on Ada Lovelace
Wikipedia and more specifically the Women in computing article
Esao Andrews (Young Mary Shelley)
The women are there, Computer Science for fun, annual issue 2
Margaret Sarah Carpenter (Ada Lovelace portrait)
J. Howard Miller's (We Can Do It! poster)
MichigansWallofFame (Rosie tech)
Computer History Museum (ENIAC)
The Ada project
Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology fortheir Profiles of Technical Women: Famous Women in Computer Science
Dr. James E. Brittain
Masolino
Utterlyelastic's Blog
Computerhope.com
Vintage Computer Festival website
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herstory, computer sciences, gendered ICT, women, free software, hcker, lelaocers
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