TAEX at Women-Led Galleries Now

On International Women’s Day, TAEX honours the vital, insurgent presence of women artists in the evolution of digital art. Across decades of code, circuitry and networked exchange, women have claimed technological space not as neutral ground, but as contested territory—rewriting its logics from within. TAEX, a female-founded and led platform, brings together voices who transform computation into critique and speculation. In Shu Lea Cheang’s excerpt from UKI (2023), a discarded humanoid reboots in the wasteland of Etrashville, recoding their body until they rise again as virus—fluid, infiltrative, free—restoring pleasure to a system built on extraction. Sasha Stiles, writing with her AI alter ego, composes quiet meditations on seed and syntax, where language becomes data and memory travels beyond the human mouth. Krista Kim explores digital consciousness with her luminous gradient works that transform the screen into a meditative environment where colour, light and code invite moments of stillness. Helin Sahin’s suspended CGI forms hover between opacity and revelation, reflecting diasporic identity and cosmic balance. Funa Ye’s GAN-generated Neo-Mastr avatars draw from Shamate subculture to conjure a Sinofuturist commons—folk, mutant, defiantly self-fashioned. Natalia Fedorova’s spare HTML poems drift like clouds above crisis, returning power to word and code. Maria Mavropoulou mirrors the algorithm back to itself in hybrid self-portrait. Jill Miller reclaims her image through AI satire, turning commodification into resistance. Together, these women artists recode the digital as a site of feminist becoming.