The Mother of
All Demos

Step into a zany, immersive, live, multimedia performance featuring a female tech CEO who embodies female-coded robots, memorializes patents by women for textiles and computation devices, performs AI-generated instructions for mechanized domestic labor, trains Mechanical Turks in DEI tasks, babysits unruly AI bots, includes the 1870 article by Matilda Gage, "Woman as Inventor," and broadcasts the audio of Harlow Shapley, the "kilo-girls" fabricator.

This interactive experience—blending irony and sincerity, epic blunders and meager successes, chaotic messes and illogical order—will leave you questioning power structures in technology, past and present, pondering the Matilda Effect—the ongoing erasure and undervaluing of women's contributions in tech, and yearning for technology made with CARE for humans and the world.

• 504 patents by women
• important excerpt from the interview with Harlow Shapley about the term kilo-girl hours
• Woman as Inventor read aloud
• over 50 images generated by AI of what a CEO looks like
• 42 carebots
• 42 Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs)
• over 40 photographs of women working with machines
• images of The Mother of All Demos
• over 20 images of Human Computers
• a robot on stage
• a CEO on stage
• a human mother on stage
• audience directions for robot
• payment of audience workers
• computations by human computers
• 7 photographs showing techno-presentation labor
• live feed video of head-mounted camera showing robot's view
• over 40 images of humanoid robots doing domestic labor
• Rope Mothers
• Little Old Ladies
• pink broom
• pink vacuum
• 4 pink laundry baskets
• pink ironing board
• over 10 pink plastic plants in pots
• pink brush
• pink teapot
• pink sofa cover
• pink money box filled with pennies
• pink plates
• pink cups
• pink bowls
• pink watering can