As part of the exhibition Women as Technology, we have compiled the exhibition texts and the extensive timeline into a special booklet. You can browse the booklet here.
Welcome to the Deep Dive, where we take the themes explored in our exhibitions to a new level. Do you wear glasses? Do you have contact lenses or a pacemaker? Do you use DigiD? If so, you’re already part-cyborg and have taken your first steps in the ‘posthuman’ era. Discover how designers, artists and scientists are thinking about the future of the human body.
The exhibition Women as technology features a timeline of the themes of emancipation of women in the Netherlands, laws and regulations and development of technology. In this article, you will find a more detailed explanation of the theme development of technology.
The exhibition Women as Technology highlights several women from past and present. Here you can find an overview.
The exhibition “Women as technology” features a timeline on women's emancipation in the Netherlands. In this article, you will find a more detailed explanation of this timeline.
The exhibition 'Women as technology' features a timeline on laws and regulations in the Netherlands. In this article, you will find a more detailed explanation of this timeline.
The womb might well be the most discussed and regulated female organ in history. Not as part of the body, however, but as an abstract, reproductive object.
Before ‘computers’ were machines, the word was used to describe women who performed complex calculations. Their work was indispensable, but was undervalued in terms of both status and pay.
Although domestic technology is seemingly designed to reduce work, it has mostly served to heighten the existing division of roles within the home.
Rather than being futuristic fantasies, hyperfeminine robots in movies and comic books reflect deeply rooted gender stereotypes. Their design is rarely neutral: they are slender, sensual and obedient – tailored to the male gaze.
The works shown in the part 'Better Bodies' of the exhibition share a fundamental belief in the human body. The body is extended, embellished, defended or armed, ready to face the future.