Speaker: Anika Meier; Moderator: Catherine Mason

18:00 GMT, Wednesday, 19 November 2025 - Eventbrite booking link on soon

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Inverting Linda Nochlin’s famous question*, the talk titled “Why Are There So Many Great Women Artists in the Age of AI?” by Berlin-based writer and curator Anika Meier explores how and why women artists are shaping the emerging field of art in the age of AI.

It examines how accessible technologies, such as AI and blockchain, along with the new online art world, have enabled women and non-binary artists to gain visibility and influence. At the same time, it considers whether this moment represents a lasting shift in art history or a fragile exception shaped by platform dynamics and novelty.

Bio

Anika Meier is a writer and curator specializing in digital art. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany, and teaches at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (Class of UBERMORGEN, Department of Digital Art). She is the co-founder of The Second-Guess, a curatorial collective based in Berlin and Los Angeles that explores the relationship between humans and technology.

Among others, she wrote columns for Monopol and Kunstforum, worked with CIRCA and Tezos on Marina Abramović‘s first NFT Drop, and with Herbert W. Franke on his NFT Drop MATH ART. She was on the curation board of Art Blocks, on the advisory board of Haus der Elektronischen Künste in Basel, and built EXPANDED.ART.

She is also a conceptual artist who creates text-based works that critically reflect on identity, authorship, and value in the post-digital age, including LOST FUTURES (2023), TALE AS OLD AS TIME (2024), and TECHNOLOGY PORTRAITS (2025). In 2022, she collaborated with Operator to create UNSIGNED, a collection of 100 signatures from women and non-binary artists aimed at reversing the current negative value of signatures by transforming them into artworks themselves.

Her most recent curated exhibitions include The Second-Guess. Body Anxiety in the Age of AI at HeK Basel (Virtual), LeeMullican.PCX at FeralFile, Who Is Online? Game Art in the Age of Post-NFTism at HEK Basel (Virtual), Art NFT Linz at Francisco Carolinum in Linz, and Tribute to Herbert W. Franke (co-curated with Susanne Päch).

Her exhibitions have been written about, and her writing has been published in, among others, artnet, Hyperallergic, The Washington Post, Monopol, Kunstforum, Spiegel, Tagesschau, and Right Click Save.

* Linda Nochlin's 1971 essay "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" argued that societal and institutional barriers, not lack of talent, prevented women from achieving recognition in the art world.

Image: Anika Meier, Ricarda (Technology Portraits) - detail, AI-generated, 2025

Instagram: @anika
Twitter: @postanika
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Catherine Mason is an arts historian specialising in the algorithmic arts and is a member of the CAS Management Committee.

The event will be recorded and uploaded to the CAS YouTube Channel.

This event is via Zoom only and open to the public and is free, but you must book your place - link to follow

Our next meeting will be our AGM on Wednesday, 10 December at 17:00, followed by the opening of Sean Clark’s exhibition at 18:00. Hybrid: in-person and Zoom.