March arrives, and with it, Women’s History Month, a gentle nudge to remember the women who have moulded the art world’s edges and pushed wide its pinched boundaries, often quietly, and without applause. In art, as in tech, women’s stories are too often thrown in the proverbial dustbin, their names tucked into footnotes or forgotten altogether. Wander through a museum or scroll through the annals of computer art, and you’ll see the same pattern: women’s work waiting, sometimes for decades, to be seen.
But behind studio doors across the country, artists like Sarah Buckius, Grace Grothaus, and Alison Hiltner are quietly rewriting that story. Their work, curated among others for our March 2026 exhibition Out of Bounds: Pushing the Lines Between Technology and Art, asks us to reconsider who really stands at the crossroads of art and technology. This spring, in honor of Women’s History Month, we turn our attention to six such innovators whose work breaks new ground, upends old ideas, and opens new ways of thinking about who gets to invent and who gets remembered.
Sarah Buckius
Sarah Buckius is a Santa Cruz–based artist, educator, and engineer whose work bridges digital media and performance, drawing on her backgrounds in both mechanical engineering and fine art. Her work often begins with a question: How do women’s acts of care and invention shape the technologies around us, and how are they shaped in return? Sarah gathers fragments—historic patents, glimpses of family life, the textures of textile and computational labor—and weaves them into films and installations that feel both personal and expansive. Her piece “!!! technoloffspring !!!” is part of Out of Bounds.
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Exhibition | Curator’s Statement
Grace Grothaus
Grace Grothaus is an innovative computational media artist whose practice explores the complex relationships between humans, plants, and ecosystems in the era of climate change. Frequently collaborating with scientists, engineers, and artists, Grace creates immersive installations that make invisible environmental phenomena tangible. In “Daily Chorus,” her collaborative piece for Out of Bounds, she turns real-time data from the city into a living, breathing soundscape, a reminder of our agency and connectedness within urban environments.
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View Grace’s Work in ‘Out of Bounds’
Exhibition | Curator’s Statement
Alison Hiltner
Alison Hiltner’s installations feel like stepping into a sci-fi film, only this time, the sacks of green goo and heat-sensitive tentacles are real. Based in Minneapolis, Alison splits her time between her studio and the Soo Visual Arts Center, where she helps shape the city’s art scene. Her multimedia installations—like “We Have Merely Been Detected,” now on view in Out of Bounds—translate the language of labs and cinema into immersive experiences that blend reality and artifice. Alison is also one of six recipients of the NOT REAL ART 2024 grant.
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View Alison’s Work in ‘Out of Bounds’
Exhibition | Curator’s Statement
Jordan Vinyard
Kinetic sculptor and installation artist Jordan Vinyard, one of six recipients of the NOT REAL ART 2024 grant, brings a satirical edge to the convergence of art and technology. On view in the NOT REAL ART 2024 Grant Winners Exhibition, Jordan’s interactive, often absurdist machines explore our entanglement with devices and prompt us to question who’s really in control. As dean of visual and performing arts at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Jordan’s practice urges viewers to laugh, reflect, and squirm a little as we catch our reflections in the absurdity.
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View Jordan’s Work in the ‘NOT REAL ART 2024 Grant Winners Exhibition’
Exhibition | Curator’s Statement
Kacie Lees
Kacie Lees is a New York-based visual artist working in neon, holography, and print, known for deconstructing light to explore collective consciousness and atomic connection. Her decade-spanning career includes exhibitions at The Museum of Neon Art in Los Angeles and The Museum of Glass in Tacoma, authorship of Neon Primer: A Handbook on Light Construction, and experimental neon workshops nationwide. Kacie’s “Inner Beams,” part of Out of Bounds, is a rainbow-colored installation that uses light as both material and metaphor for human connection.
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Exhibition | Curator’s Statement
Rebecca Rose
Rebecca Rose is a renowned new media artist whose practice spans analog, digital, sculptural, holographic, and immersive collage installations. With a career supported by major arts foundations and exhibitions at institutions like The Whitney and Art Basel Miami Beach, Rebecca continually reimagines what collage can be. Her animated digital piece “Mama Said I Was a Fool,” showcased in Out of Bounds, draws inspiration from multi-generational patterns of lonely childbirth. Her work is fluid and interactive, less a fixed object than a living encounter.
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View Rebecca’s Work in ‘Out of Bounds’
Exhibition | Curator’s Statement
Sophie Gamand
Sophie Gamand is a French award-winning photographer, artist, and animal advocate based in Los Angeles, celebrated for her evocative explorations of the human-dog bond. Notable works include “The Invisible Dog” (from our 2023 Art and Tech exhibition), which harnesses augmented reality to spotlight the lives of chained, forgotten dogs; meanwhile, her acclaimed “Pit Bull Flower Power” series recasts neglected shelter dogs as sweet companions deserving of dignity, love, and adoption.
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Exhibition | Curator’s Statement
All images published with permission of the artist(s); featured image: “Sun Eaters” by Grace Grothaus.