V&A Digital Design Weekend - Computer Arts Society

Friday 18^th – Sunday 20^th September 2026
V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL

The V&A's Digital Design Weekend takes place in the world-famous South Kensington museum from the 18th to 20th September 2026. The Computer Arts Society will have a strong presence with talks, demos and an exhibition of work. Admission is free.

Drop-in Activities & Exhibition by The Computer Arts Society

3 Ns and an M, plus Drawing Robots by The Computer Arts Society (CAS)

Digital Studio, Learning Centre, Level 0

Join CAS members Sean Clark and Genetic Moo for two drop-in activities over the weekend: play with simple drawing machines inspired by Harold Cohen, and interact with artworks influenced by Frieder Nake, Georg Nees, A. Michael Noll and Vera Molnár. Two screens will also present work by current CAS members. We will also be giving two talks in the Prints and Drawings Study Room.

Genetic Moo artwork at the CAS Digital Design Weekend workshop — 3 Ns and an M with **Genetic Moo**. Find out more about Genetic Moo and their approach to interactive art in their new book, *Interactive Art with Genetic Moo*. Available to buy from **Amazon**, or as a **free PDF download**.

Drawing machines and robots at the CAS Digital Design Weekend workshop — Drawing Robots with **Sean Clark**. Build your own Cuttlebot drawing robot based around a Micro:bit controller and low-cost and 3D-printed parts by following the instructions at **Interact Digital Arts**.

Share your photographs and tag us on Instagram: @computerartssoc / @geneticmoo / @seancuttlefish

Short Talks

Art of Drawing Machines

Sunday 13:30 — Prints and Drawings Study Room

Join Dr Sean Clark, Chair of the Computer Arts Society, as he discusses art created with drawing machines, tracing the history of machine-made art and its continuing relevance in the age of AI.

From Plotter to P5.js

Sunday 14:30 — Prints and Drawings Study Room

Join Tim Pickup, artist and member of Genetic Moo, as he looks at the V&A digital art collection and reveals how the algorithms and aesthetic choices of early computer artists continue to inspire digital practice today.

Video Showreel

The CASCOM video showreel includes work by Stephen Bell, Sean Clark, Geoff Davis, Ernest Edmonds, Genetic Moo, Sue Gollifer, Nick Lambert, Laura Traver and Anna Dumitriu.

Generative Art Showreel

The CAS generative art showreel is running on a Raspberry Pi computer and features live work by Paul Brown, Sean Clark and Geoff Davis. The generative showreel runs nine sequences, three per artist, for 10 minutes each on a loop. The taster video shows each video for just 10 seconds each.

Posters

The CAS poster display will feature work from current members. Full details and a schedule will be added soon.

About the Hosts

Genetic Moo

CASCOM

Genetic Moo is a collaboration between creative coding couple Nicola Schauerman and Tim Pickup. Together, they create large-scale interactive installations for museums and galleries which encourage experimentation and play. Their touring exhibitions include: Magic Place, an ever-changing digital environment inspired by the magic of home computing and the golden age of video games, and Microworld, a digital ecosystem filled with creatures which respond to the audience. These large-scale exhibitions are produced by KitMapper. They have received numerous grants, commissions and awards and their work has featured in museums and galleries all over the UK.

Sean Clark

CASCOM, Chair

Sean Clark is an independent artist, curator, and researcher based in Leicestershire, UK. His artwork explores interaction and connectedness through the construction of audiovisual systems presented on screen, as installations, and as prints. He is the director of Interact Digital Arts, the curator of the Computer Arts Archive and Chair of the Computer Arts Society. He holds a PhD in Computational Art from De Montfort University, where he studied under computer art pioneer Ernest Edmonds, and in 2016 was co-winner of the Lumen Prize for 3D/Sculpture and the Art.CHI Digital Art Prize.