Tags: CAS50
Computer Arts Archive is Coming!
Posted: Sun, 09 Feb 2020 17:55
Initiated by the Computer Arts Society and Interact Digital Arts and based at the LCB Depot in Leicester, the archive will hold the CAS50 Collection and collect and catalogue other collections from our partners and individuals. The project will now officially launch in November 2020, later than originally planned, due to the COVID-19 situation. Follow the Computer Arts Archive Facebook Page to keep up-to-date with development and visit our website for information on how to support the project.
Event Two @ The V&A
Posted: Sun, 22 Sep 2019 19:34
The Computer Arts Society was invited to participate in this year's V&A Digital Design Weekend. Together with Art in Flux, we showed work from the Event Two exhibition that we held earlier in the year. The CAS50 Collection contribution featured original 2D works by Alex May, Stephen Bell, William Latham, Stephen Scrivener and DP Henry. We also included generative artworks by Sean Clark, Ernest Edmonds and Paul Brown in a video showreel. To see pictures from the event follow the link below. We hope to do more 'pop-up' events like this in the future.
https://flickr.com/photos/seancuttlefish/albums/72157711015761772
Event Two Documentation
Posted: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 20:20
Event Two at the Royal College of Art took place between 12th and 17th July 2019 and was a great success. Every evening event was fully booked and day visitors numbered many hundreds. We are still sorting for through the documentation gathered at the event but have managed to sort through the first set of photographs. You can find around 350 in an album on Flickr. Additionally, there are pictures of the install, plus videos, 3D photographs and 360 panoramas on the Event Two web page.
An updated version of The CAS50 Collection is currently in production. This will contain information about the 24 artists in the collection, plus a selection of photographs from the various exhibitions, including Event Two, that have happened so far as part of the CAS50 programme.
Video Interviews
Posted: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 22:19
At Event Two this week we officially launched our new series of video interviews conducted by David Upton. David visited artists, curators to discuss their interests in computer art and has produced a unique series, with many unique insights into how computer artists make their work, and curators contextualise it. The first videos are now live on YouTube and feature Andy Lomas, Bob Bicknell Knight, Ernest Edmonds, Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, Genetic Moo, George Mallen, Irini Papadimitriou, Jonathan Kearney, Julia Freeman, Keith Watson, Patrick Tresset and Paul Brown. A new series is currently in the planning stage.
CAS50 Exhibition Catalogue
Posted: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 23:41
The catalogue for the CAS50 exhibition is now available for order. The catalogue includes information about the artworks in the exhibition, together with pictures of the Leicester and Brighton showings.
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/616573763/cas50-exhibition-catalogue
CAS50 Panel @ EVA'18 and Book Launch
Posted: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 20:36
The annual EVA London conference takes place in London between 10th and 12th July at BCS headquarters in Covent Garden. There is a full speaker programme, plus a pre-conference day on Monday 9th and an education day on Friday 13th. On the evening of Tuesday 10th there will be a discussion panel celebrating 50 years of the Computer Arts Society.
The panel is free to attend and the evening will also include refreshments, information about the CAS50 programme and the London lunch of Francesca Franco's new book on the work of Ernest Edmonds.
If you would like to join us please register for FREE at:
CAS50 Exhibition in Leicester Opening
Posted: Tue, 29 May 2018 20:44
The CAS50 year officially began on Wednesday 23rd May 2018 with the opening of the CAS50 Exhibition in Leicester.
Attendees of the launch were treated to an evening of talks by many of the artists involved in the exhibition, together with introductions by CAS co-founder George Mallen and current chair Nick Lambert.
As well as marking the start of the CAS50 year, the exhibition also announced the CAS50 Collection project. This aims to use the interest in CAS50 to help build a curated collection of high-quality computer artworks that we hope will become an important resource for people interested in computer art.
Pictures from the opening can be found here and panoramic images here. A video of the talks is available on our YouTube Channel.
CAS50 Collection
Posted: Tue, 15 May 2018 13:13
Next week will see the opening of the CAS50 exhibition in Leicester and mark the official launch of the CAS50 Collection. This is the start of a one-year programme that will see us create a unique collection of digital artworks that will help us celebrate 50 years of the computer arts society. We will be showing the collection at various locations over the coming year. Galleries and venues interested in taking part should get in touch with cas50@computer-arts-society.com.
PAGE Archive Completed
Posted: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 20:08
We are very pleased to announce that we have completed our online archive of the Computer Arts Society's PAGE bulletin. First published in 1969, PAGE provides a unique insight into the development of computer arts in the UK and beyond. The processes of digitising PAGE began during the CACHe project but this is the first time that a complete collection of all known issues of PAGE has been published online in PDF format.
We are working to ensure that all of the PAGE PDFs are fully index by Google. Well over half of them have been so far and you can keyword search them using our new CAS website search. We hope that the remainder of the issues will be indexed soon.
This is the first outcome of the CAS50 programme. This will see a series of celebratory events, archiving activities and a limited edition paper re-publication of the early issues of PAGE. CAS50 will run from summer 2018 until summer 2019.
Website Update
Posted: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 16:01
As you will no doubt have noticed, the Computer Arts Society website is undergoing some major changes. The motivation for this is the forthcoming CAS50 year of activities that we will be announcing shortly.
The plan is to undergo a complete content review starting in March 2018, with the aim of creating a comprehensive searchable archive of all on-line CAS resources. We will then introduce a new events guide that will feature digital and computer arts events from CAS partners, as well as our own activities. Next will be a fresh look and feel for the website (what you see now is temporary while we reorganise the content), search engine reindexing, some training for a new team of website editors, the start of a new CAS Blog and finally the launch of the new website in May 2018 to coincide with the start of CAS50.
The searchable archive will become a central part of the new website and we are looking for people to contribute any CAS related archival materials they may have. We are particularly interested in video materials. Get in touch at cas50@computer-arts-society.com if you have anything that you think may be of interest.
