Early Computer Art: Catherine Mason and Nick Lambert

lunch 1 pm
talks 2 – 4.30 pm

Catherine Mason will talk about her new book, 'A Computer in the Art Room:
The origins of British Computer Arts 1950 - 1980'. This uncovers the little-known history of early British computer art. Described for the first time is the crucial role played by art schools in fostering important cross-disciplinary digital collaborations. This was a unique period in which art students could learn to program computers and construct their own hardware, before the
onset of PCs and 'user-friendly' systems.

Dr Nick Lambert from the Computer Arts and Technocultures Project (CAT), a joint venture between Birkbeck and the V&A, will discuss Parallel Evolution:
the development of computer arts in the 1980s to 90s. The art show at the SIGGRAPH graphics conference was a major American and international venue for computer art. From the late 1970s onwards, the Los Angeles-based art historian Patric Prince collected a significant amount of early computer art that was closely linked with SIGGRAPH, and this was later donated to the
V&A, becoming the research material for CAT.

RSVP to:

Tobias Rupp
SCIRIA Research Administrator
Camberwell College of Arts
Wilson Road
London SE5 8LU
Email t.rupp@camberwell.arts.ac.uk
Phone 020-7514-2173
www.sciria.org.uk