Computer Image of the Month (2011-2014)
Between 2011 and 2014 CAS committee member, and author of A Computer in the Art Room, Catherine Mason wrote a monthly column titled "Computer Image of the Month" for the British Computer Society's website and ITNow magazine. She continues to contribute to BCS publications on the Computer Arts Society's behalf.
Obituaries
Remember Gustav Metzger (1926-2017)
The Computer Arts Society mourns the loss of the ground-breaking artist Gustav Metzger, one of our earliest members.
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Remembering Alan Sutcliffe (1930-2014)
The Computer Arts Society (CAS) mourns the loss of one of its founders and first Chairman - a great pioneer and supporter of computer arts, Alan Sutcliffe.
2014
The superb exhibition surveying 12 centuries of Chinese art currently on view at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
An Artful Life - February 2014
I had the great pleasure recently to spend the afternoon with this month’s artist Barbara Nessim.
Going with the Flow - March 2014
James Faure Walker’s art is fundamentally about painting; the act of applying paint, whether it be digital or physical, to a surface.
Interactivity has become one of the defining characteristics of new media installation art.
This month we are considering a truly extraordinary use of the digital.
Andy Lomas is a self-confessed code junky, saying, ‘I write it for my own pleasure.’
Digital Revolutions - July 2014
An ambitious exhibition of digital art and design opens this month at the Barbican Centre, London.
Auto-Creative Art - September 2014
Gustav Metzger is an artist with a socially-engaged conscience who has become famous for his concepts of auto-destructive and auto-creative art.
2013
Colour Computation - January 2013
This winter in the UK we have been presented with a marvellous opportunity to see two of the great pioneers of the use of computation in art.
Kaleidoscopic Calculations - February 2013
This month, to compliment the previous two discussions of Manfred Mohr and Ernest Edmonds we feature new work by another of the great pioneers of algorithmic art - Herbert Franke.
This month we investigate an interesting commission from the University of Dundee Museum Services who have been working on a £100,000 project funded by the Art Fund.
Jennifer Steinkamp’s beautiful tree moves as though blowing in the wind and transforms over time.
With an estimated 500 million internet users, the web has been called the most creative space for self-expression in China.
A Layered Practice - June 2013
Paul Coldwell, one of the finest printmakers working in the digital medium in Britain today, calls his ‘a layered practice’.
A Glitch in the Matrix - July 2013
Definition of a glitch: A short-lived fault or malfunction in a system, a sudden disruption to the normal running of a network; the frustrating by-product of technology gone awry.
Re-visiting the Grand Tour - August 2013
The UK artist and Royal College of Art graduate Emily Allchurch creates complex photographic images which draw on art history to make contemporary re-creations of iconic works.
Role-play at the Biennale - September 2013
The 55th International Art Exhibition, commonly known as the Venice Biennale, takes as its title this year The Encyclopaedic Palace.
Digital Vanitas - October 2013
The painted frog breathes its last and slowly decomposes before our eyes.
Expanded Evolution - November 2013
Bizarre, strange mutated forms looming out of computer space; this artist is a gardener steering and evolving forms within a kind of virtual evolution.
Binary Bon Bons - December 2013
Welcome to our annual end of year special - a celebration of work submitted by readers of this column, BCS & Computer Arts Society members.
2012
A Machine That Makes Art - January 2012
The inspiration for this month’s column comes from the great conceptual artist Sol LeWitt’s statement: ‘The idea becomes a machine that makes the art’.
David Hockney, perhaps Britain’s most famous living artist, has never been one to shy away from the use of new technology.
In Pursuit of the Slow - March 2012
In our world where the digital is almost by definition associated with high speed, quick manoeuvrability and near instantaneousness, it is an inspiration to be invited by John Gerrard to deliberately slow down.
‘Art takes place outside of the machine’ - Charles Csuri - April 2012
This month we are thrilled to bring you a striking new work by one of the great pioneers of computer art Charles A. Csuri.
Virtual Landscapes Made Tangible - May 2012
Jeremy Gardiner, our artist this month, has spent decades exploring the ancient history of the Jurassic coastline.
A Material Investigation of the Digital - June 2012
There are strong historical and metaphorical connections between computers and textiles.
The red planet as we’ve never seen it before.
The Body Beautiful - August 2012
Seemingly hundreds of human figures float, come together, cluster, drift in and out of focus, ever-changing, never repeated.
An Artistic Turing Test - September 2012
Alan Turing, the centenary of whose birth we are celebrating this year, had an important influence on artists.
Remembering Alan Turing - October 2012
Alan Turing Year 2012 continues apace with a variety of events inspired by the great contribution made by the mathematician and code breaker to the history of computer science and modern biology.
A Computational Life - November 2012
For those readers interested in the history of this genre we have a treat this month - Manfred Mohr, a pioneer in the use of algorithms and computer programs for art-making.
Digital Dolly Mix - December 2012
In what looks set to become an annual end of year event, for December we are once again celebrating with a selection of images submitted by readers of this column and members of the Computer Arts Society.
2011
Computer Art Image of the Month - January 2011
In a new and what I hope will be a regular column for BCS, we are focusing each month on an image selected from the world of contemporary digital art.
FUJI Spaces and Other Places - February 2011
There are many art works that are only made possible by modern information and communication technologie.
Combating Static Art - March 2011
For more than a hundred years a certain type of artist has worked to overcome what they see as one of the limitations of traditional art - that is its intrinsically static quality.
A Collaboration with my Younger Self - April 2011
In Cynthia Beth Rubin’s hands the medium of technology becomes a means to explore concepts of memory.
A Metaphysical World - May 2011
This month’s image is a still from Vermilion Lake, an interactive artwork comprising 3D computer graphics inspired by the artists’ travels to the snow-driven mountains of the Canadian Rockies.
Autonomous Art-Making Machine - June 2011
Professor Harold Cohen is undoubtedly one of the greatest pioneers of the relationship of art to software architecture.
Light Constructed by Numbers - July 2011
It was the early 1980s Disney film Tron that first introduced French painter Anne-Sarah Le Meur, when a child of only 12, to the world of computer art.
A Magical Forest That Reacts to your Presence - August 2011
Alsos*, meaning ‘sacred wood’ in Greek, is an installation of a recreated imaginary forest which allows the audience to interact with it. This is the Computer Art Image of the Month for August 2011.
Digital Post-Pop - October 2011
This month’s artist turns pop art on its head and gives us a digital take on painting that forces us to confront an uncomfortable truth about modern life.
A Sense of Place - September 2011
A ghostly, lone figure appears out of the mist as if something half-remembered from a dream in this month’s artwork by Orly Aviv.
Plotted Stitching - November 2011
This month’s image by Turner Prize-winning Grayson Perry shows that he has more strings to his bow than pot-making.
Optic Allsorts - December 2011
To mark a year’s worth of writing about the world of computer arts and as an end of year special, for December we are celebrating with a quartet of images submitted by readers of this column.
