This article is intensely myopically misleading. The first digital art was women’s weaving patterns, which were developped aeons before the advent of computers. It is no coincidence that computers were modelled after weaving machines. The first digital artists using algos to make art were women weavers. Everything men went and put into patented computers, patented algos and patented programs they stole from women weavers who had freely passed on that wisdom from generation to generation. The fact that you leave this out of your supposed “history”, which inevitably starts in the 1950s with a bunch of men, only goes to show how relentlessly androcentric, reductive and white supremacist you are in what you consider to be “digital art”. The clothes on your back, the rugs you walk on and the bed sheets you sleep on are all “digital art”, but would you know it with your hyper-male hyper-capitalistic perception of art which is based on commodity fetishism instead of a truly materialist, historical, global exploration of the true origins of “digital art”. When you can no longer see the female hands that make the things around you, and were making these things for aeons before you decided to steal and appropriate that knowledge for your personal benefit to fill up your galleries and your museums and your hard drives and your smartphones, you are but a blind man amongst the blind.

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    Ευάλωτος στην πνευματική αιχμαλωσία, στον έλεγχο και την χειραγώγηση είναι αυτός που φοβάται να σκεφτεί για λογαριασμό του. — “Αιχμάλωτη σκέψη”, Czeslaw Milosz