mercredi 16 septembre 2026, 18h30

Extra Muros | film screening Stadtkino

L'événement s'inscrit dans le programme d'accompagnement de l'exposition Labouring Bodies
Lieu : Stadtkino Basel, Tarif : entrée Stadtkino, en anglais (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.