Extra Muros

Wednesday, 16 September 2026, 6:30 pm

Extra Muros | film screening Stadtkino

The event is part of the programme accompanying the exhibition Labouring Bodies
Location: Stadtkino Basel, Costs: entry Stadtkino, in English (OmEU, 85 Min.)


Conceiving Ada (USA 1997) von Lynn Hershman Leeson with an introduction by Dr Sadie Plant, philosopher and author of Zeros and Ones, Digital Women and the New Technoculture, on Ada Lovelace followed by a Q&A, in English.
 

The contributions made by women, such as the mathematician Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), to the history of computers and digitality have long been downplayed. Not until the 1990s, in the context of cyberfeminism, did writers such as Sadie Plant rediscover these female pioneers of computer languages. In her film Conceiving Ada (1997), the artist Lynn Hershman Leeson brought Lovelace—played by Tilda Swinton—back to life.

 

 

Bildcredits:  Lynn Hershman Leeson, Conceiving Ada, 1997, film still; © Lynn Hershman Leeson; filmstill: Courtesy the artist.


Labouring Bodies
10 June - 8 November 2026

Labouring Bodies

«Labouring Bodies» explores the manifold interdependence between body and technology from a feminist perspective. The group exhibition shows how the human body—especially the feminized and marginalized human body—has since the dawn of the modern age been shaped and controlled by machines, while also being understood as a site of resistance. Artists cast light on working with machines, on the technologization of production and reproduction, and on women’s contribution to technological progress, inviting visitors to rethink their notions of body, labour and care.


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