Read my review of the amazing 2024 Summit in Berlin last July that drew together some 350 participants in the world of digital art. Organised by the Foundation Herbert W. Franke. Go to Videos tab to see my presentations.
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On-line talk: 18 September – George Mallen & the early Computer Arts Society
Join me on Zoom to hear about some of the artists and artworks in my new book – Creative Simulations. Don’t know who George Mallen is? Well, I’ll tell you all about him and the ground-breaking Computer Arts Society project Ecogame of 1970. Ecogame was a simulation model of an economic system, dealt with opportune issues of ecology and environment, and was the first multi-player, digitally driven, interactive gaming system in the UK. It exemplified the CAS belief in a positive ‘human machine interrelationship’ made visible through art. Watch the recording here: YouTube
Presentation at EVA London Conference
I’m pleased to be participating in EVA this year on 8 July, in a symposium chaired by Jonathan Bowen and Tula Giannini: Computation, AI, and Creativity. Featuring my new book Creative Simulations, about George Mallen and the history of the Computer Arts Society. Read the EVA paper here. And come to a FREE book launch evening event!
Harold Cohen essay published in Studio International
Do you know how Harold Cohen transitioned from working with paint to working with code? Find out in my article just published in Studio International (CLUE – it has to do with cybernetics!)
UAL lecture out now on video
My zoom lecture about artistic use of pre-artificial intelligence systems in British art schools is now available. Listen again here. Also pleased to be a part of this ai-created book of the proceedings (shown above). This was part of the AI Practice Sharing day organised by Chris Rowell at University of the Arts London
Latest for the Tickle – featuring 1980s micro-computers
My latest article for the Tickle – Dominic Boreham
This issue features the work of Dominic Boreham and his pioneering use of the plotter. Read here
Latest article for The Tickle now published
Do you know there is a piece of computer art on the moon?
Find out in Tickle issue #85, available as an NFT on Objkt.com
Filmed interview with Dominic Harris for Studio International
On the occasion of Dominic Harris’s exhibition at Halcyon Gallery, the artist and I toured his exhibition and discussed his practice and inspirations – click here to watch
On-line talk March 29 2023: History of AI in the Arts – the UK in the 1970s
7pm in the UK – 2pm in NYC, via Zoom
Join me for a special on-line session with 3 pioneers of computer and computational art – precursors of today’s AI & Generative Art, all of whom have a connection to the Slade School of Art and Leicester Polytechnic in the early to late 1970s.
Ernest Edmonds will describe his pioneering work with Stroud Cornock at Leicester Polytechnic, the Invention of Problems events in 1970-71, his friendship with Edward Ihnatowicz, the relationship with the Slade and the formation of the Human Computer Interface Research Unit. Stephen Bell, one of the Slade students who continued his research with Ernest, will also talk about Dominic Boreham another student who went on to the HCIRU. Paul Brown, another student at the Slade and later a Research Fellow there, will talk about his friendship with Harold Cohen and Chris Briscoe and discuss his own work with AI and A-life.