Talk: CAS Online Open Evening

Sean Clark (b. 1965) 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.

• https://www.interactdigitalarts.uk
• @seancuttlefish
• https://www.youtube.com/@seancuttlefish

Catherine Mason has been recovering the history of computer and digital art since 2002 when she joined an AHRC research group at Birkbeck, University of London. Her first book A Computer in the Art Room: the Origins of British Computer Arts 1950-1980 (JJG: 2008 & ebook 2021), is the first comprehensive account of the history of British computer art. Over a long career she has worked in commercial galleries and public-sector arts organisations, adult education and exhibition curation. Today her main focus is research and writing; her latest book Creative Simulations (Springer 2024), tells the story of the early history of CAS, through George Mallen, one of the founders. She is a Visiting Research and Knowledge Exchange Fellow in the School of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London.

• https://www.catherinemason.co.uk/
• @cathcomputerarthistory
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Mason

Paul Brown is an artist and writer who has specialised in art, science & technology since the late 1960s and computational & generative art since the early 1970s. His early work included creating large-scale lighting installations for musicians and performance groups (like Meredith Monk and The House, Musica Elettronica Viva and Pink Floyd). He has artwork in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum in the UK, the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC, USA and many other public, corporate and private collections in Australia, Asia, Europe, Russia and the USA. In 2023 he received the ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art.

• http://www.paul-brown.art
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Brown_(artist)

Stephen Bell is a pioneering British digital artist who began integrating computer programming into his creative practice in 1977 at The Slade School of Art. He gained prominence in the mid 1980s whilst Artist in Residence at the University of Kent, developing his Smallworld algorithm in which software agents imitate animal and human behaviours. Bell creates interactive CGI environments to explore emergent aesthetic consequences of tracing the dynamic social interactions of these automated entities. Holding a PhD in participatory computer art, he spent nearly three decades inspiring new generations as a Senior Lecturer at the National Centre for Computer Animation.

• https://stephenbell.art

Graham worked in Commercial Photography for over 40 years and also headed up Photography in the Faculty of Design at UAL, London College of Communication, covering the pioneering changes from analogue to digital. Two documentary projects on the River Thames raised concerns that with rapidly changing technology, our new born-digital data images might not be readable in 50 /100 years time, and his recent published papers about pigment ink printing for safe longer term archiving. Graham co-authored the photographic textbook Photography: The New Basics for T&H and until very recently chaired the EVA London Conference, sponsored by BCS and part of the Computer Arts Society.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Diprose