Leicester Computer Arts History
Sean Clark et al.
Summary
Sean Clark introduces a Computer Arts Society archive project that documents the history of digital art in Leicester and Leicestershire, an area in the centre of England with a high density of arts-focused institutions including Loughborough University, Leicester Polytechnic and De Montfort University. He explains that the project builds on the Computer Arts Society archive, adding materials from the mid-2000s onwards, and mentions related collections such as the Micro Arts works by Jeff Davis and the CAS50 collection. Clark describes a recent exhibition at Beta RX, a community art space on Churchgate in Leicester, featuring work by Ernest Edmonds, Stephen Scrivener, Stephen Bell and himself, and notes plans for future exhibitions and a catalogue. He then introduces Ernest Edmonds, who recalls arriving in Leicester in the early 1960s to study mathematics at Leicester University, moving into computer science at Leicester Technical College, and beginning to explore the use of computers in art in the late 1960s alongside Stroud Cornock at Leicester Polytechnic. Edmonds explains how this early interdisciplinary work influenced both his artistic practice and the direction of computer science, and he shares a relief piece from that period as an example of his early computer-related artwork.
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