Women have played a vital role in building the technologies that shape modern life, yet their contributions have at times been overlooked, minimized, or left out of the historical record.

A new exhibition seeks to tell a fuller story.

Featuring artists from California and beyond, it draws connections between the work performed in Silicon Valley's laboratories and the generations of labor women have carried out in factories, offices, and homes around the world.

Special correspondent Mike Surrey reports from San Jose for our arts and culture series, Canvas.

The old analog clock atop the historic wing of the San Jose Museum of Art is considered to be one of the early examples of high technology here in the capital of the Silicon Valley.

It's a representation of the importance of the marriage of art and technology in our community.

Jeremiah Wilson Davis, the executive director of the San Jose Museum of Art, is trying to bridge

the technology and art gap, real or imagine, with exhibits appealing to both cultures.

The idea that art and technology are divorced, I think, is a fallacy.

Art and technology have been present since the very beginning.

But the two are not separate.

They're born from the same human impulse,

and that's why they share a root in the ancient Greek word technet. The museum's current

motherboards exhibit, titled after a computer's main circuit board and nervous system, shows how

connected women and technology have been since the early days of computing and the evolution of the Silicon Valley.

Rhonda Holburton was originally a sculptor before adopting some of the digital art tools to advance her craft.

The piece that I've made for motherboards is partly inspired by my own familial history.

My great-grandfather was both an engineer. He also had orchards here in Silicon

Valley. And in fact, before Silicon Valley was Silicon Valley, it was known for its orchards

as the Valley of the Heart's Delight. The sculpture itself is a plum branch, which is a nod to that agricultural history.

So I've translated that plum branch from a 3D scan of an actual tree that are then 3D

printed with bioplastics and resins. Her exhibit collateral influences includes a digital representation of the Plum Branch

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