Thursday, March 10 at 8pm ET | 5pm PT, PBS Books, in partnership with ArtTable, is pleased to host, in celebration of Women’s History Month with two trailblazers: artist, arts advocate, and professor Judith K. Brodsky, author of Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit: Art, Feminism, and Digital Technology, with curator Jodi Throckmorton.
In her recent book, Brodsky explores trailblazing women, including artists of color, who have been innovators in the digital art arena as early as the late 1960s. Through an examination of artists’ work and feminist art theory, Brodsky will discuss the crucial role women are playing in the art world in this digital realm, including in new media as video, websites and social networking, virtual and augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and NFTs. Through this discussion, viewers will gain critical insights into the important role female artists are playing in the digital space, which historically has been dominated by men. Audience questions will be answered at the end of the conversation.
About the Author
Judith K. Brodsky is Distinguished Professor Emerita, Visual Arts, Rutgers University, founder of the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, now the Brodsky Center at PAFA, co-founder of the Rutgers Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities and The Feminist Art Project. Her curatorial work includes The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society (2012), the Philadelphia city-wide print festival, Philagrafika (2010), and Race and Erasure in Art History: Retrieving a Forgotten Circle of Black Artists (2022). She is past national president of ArtTable, College Art Association, Women’s Caucus for Art, former board chair, New York Foundation for the Arts, and a former dean and associate provost at Rutgers. Just published in October 2021 is Dismantling the Patriarchy Bit by Bit (Bloomsbury) a history of feminist artists using digital technology including women artists of color and female-identifying, queer, and transgender artists such as Legacy Russell and micha cárdenas, along with pioneers like Joan Jonas, Jenny Holzer, and Adrian Piper, and contemporary artists like Ann Hirsch, Hannah Black, and Hyphen-Lab. She shows how feminist art theory intersected with the rise of digital art, freeing technology from its patriarchal context. Her last book was Junctures in Women’s Leadership: the Arts, (Rutgers University Press, 2018) in collaboration with Dr. Ferris Olin. She is also a printmaker/artist with work in many collections.
About the Moderator
Jodi Throckmorton is the former curator of contemporary art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia. Before joining PAFA in fall 2014, she was curator of modern and contemporary art at the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University in Kansas and had previously been associate curator at the San Jose Museum of Art in California. She organized the exhibition and publications for Joan Semmel: Skin in the Game (2021), Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World (2018) with Lauren Dickens, and Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India (2015), among others.
About ArtTable
ArtTable is the foremost professional organization dedicated to advancing the leadership of women in the visual arts. Through our membership network and community initiatives, we expand professional opportunities for women from diverse backgrounds and at all stages of their careers, supporting and fostering a stronger future for all women in the arts.
All ArtTable members are able to connect with our 1,200+ network of professional peers throughout the United States and across several other countries outside the U.S. Members also have the option to join one of ten local ArtTable chapters, located in Chicago, Florida, Houston, Metro Atlanta, New York, Northern California, the Northwest, Southern California, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.