Writer on history of computer art, gen. art and art & tech. Mostly on Instagram at CathComputerArtHistory https://xitter.cf/t.co/QBcMNDfCPG
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My new book about the history of art & technology, computer art & generative art is out now! @SpringerNature Featuring George Mallen, pioneer of creative computing since 1964, cybernetics, interactive art & much else
🙏 @StepBD, Nick Lambert & @jpbowen
link.springer.com/book/10.10…
I'm participating in Manifold 3.0, the staff and alumni show of the @goldcomputing @GoldsmithsUoL. The symposium on the 23rd has a really great sounding line-up. I'm on at 11.00, talking about the early history of the Computer Arts Society @computerartssoc and the Ecogame of 1970
Join us tonight - 6th October at 6pm in-person in London at @GoldsmithsUoL
It’s a great honor to be speaking about my work @ Goldsmiths University, London. Hosted by historian, Catherine Mason @CathComputerArt . Co-sponsored by the Computer Arts Society. @computerartssoc Tuesday 6 October 2026 @ 6pm. The presentation, will be followed by Q&A and discussion.
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(4 October 2026) Catherine Mason: “Enjoying lunch today with Victor Acevedo ahead of our event @GoldsmithsUoL @GoldCompArts
Discussing everything from early personal computers, to Blockchain, to how to build a career in the arts. Come along next week to hear from this artist with over 40 years of experience in the digital arts.”
“As an early adopter of digital tools, Acevedo will consider what has changed in digital art and what challenges he sees for the future. Also chance to ask questions & meet this LA based artist.”
On Goldsmiths Campus: room 137a RHB in Richard Hoggart Building * No need to book - just turn up ! ✔️
computer-arts-society.com/ev…
Looking forward to welcoming Victor to @GoldsmithsUoL next month! More info here: gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=1614…
It is indeed an honor to have my upcoming artist’s talk at Goldsmiths University, London (October 6, 2026) mentioned in the News section of the Anne & Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection.
spalterdigital.com/news
@michaelspalter @annespalter @CathComputerArt @computerartssoc
Always honoured to have my work featured here. Read my piece about Edward Ihnatowicz & the relationship to a-life & AI art: art-magazine.ai/edition/numb…
Brought back from the limbo of early media art: Senster, Edward Ihnatowicz’s cybernetic sculpture from 1970, is one of the earliest computer-controlled robotic sculptures. Thank you to Anna Olszewska and Catherine Mason @CathComputerArt for sharing their thoughts and knowledge with us. We hope to experience Senster in person again one day.
Honoured to write the catalogue essay for Paul Brown, longtime member of @computerartssoc for his show at New Rivers Community Gallery -“Making Visible Abstract Thoughts: Paul Brown's Art as Process" paul-brown.art/pdf-files/NRC…
Great to see the latest issue of @the_ai_art_mag out now! My article mentions @WilliamLatham1 Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Paul Brown & Edward Ihnatowicz
And my page was featured in @grafikmag - history is not dead! 🥳Well done @the_ai_art_mag
This exhibition centres women’s experiences, and explores questions of what we can and cannot know about people in the past, and how to heal trauma; it was a pleasure to write about it for Studio International
'These two fascinating, interrelated exhibitions – one of a 19th-century Black Barbadian, the other by a contemporary Barbadian-Canadian artist – pose intriguing questions about the past.'
Review @BarbadosMuseum by @CathComputerArt
studiointernational.com/inde…
Issue 2 of @the_ai_art_mag is out now! I highly recommend this publication: my piece about women pioneers of digital art mentions @Joan99484094 @suegoll Mechthild Schmidt Feist, Ruth Leavitt and more! Thank you Simone and all at the magazine for having me 🙏
I’m showing this poster at the @computerartssoc exhibition "Drivers" at @bcs. Using early machine learning techniques, Ecogame was the first multiplayer digitally driven simulated 'game' in the UK. An historical precedent for using contemporary Al in a more human-centred way.
My paper for Creativity & Cognition 2025, workshop on Explainable AI xaixarts.github.io/accepted-…
In London this week? Come and hear a talk I’m giving Wednesday @BartlettArchUCL : ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/20…
Thanks James, so glad you enjoyed! 🙏😊
A Computer in the Art Room: the Origins of British Computer Arts 1950-1980 amzn.eu/d/13zCjjR
Roy Ascott's famous 1960s Groundcourse, a learning structure with the artist seen as part of a cybernetic network. In 'a computer in the art room' by @CathComputerArt Great new book about the history of art and technology in the UK
"R John Lansdown was interested in computer-generated choreography…He saw computer art as a specialised form of artificial intelligence and believed that the creative use of computers could 'simulate and study human intelligence [and] widen the scope of artistic creativity.'"
- @CathComputerArt, in 'A Computer in the Art Room: the Origins of British Computer Arts 1950-1980.'
Read all about this in “A Computer in the Art Room: the Origins of British Computer Arts 1950-1980” books.apple.com/gb/book/a-co… 🙏
“R John Lansdown was interested in computer-generated choreography…He saw computer art as a specialised form of artificial intelligence and believed that the creative use of computers could 'simulate and study human intelligence [and] widen the scope of artistic creativity.'”
- @CathComputerArt, in THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF EVENT ONE AT THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART
Really interesting conversation- almost unbelievable the amount of work that goes into curating digital media art, Val explains it so well! Highly recommend (& thanks for the mention too! 😊)
Digital Curators Series 03: Display with Val Ravaglia + @monkantony_tez
Mentions: @DoddsDouglas @jonippolito @ReginaHarsanyi @ChristianePaul2 @TinaRiversRyan @CathComputerArt @pitarreola @tylerxhobbs @V_and_A @Guggenheim @OuternetGlobal
📺👇: youtube.com/watch?v=ZXU1TnTS…
Thank you to the @Foundation_HWF for commissioning me. This will appear in the June print issue of @LeonardoISAST with pictures!
GENERATIVE ART SUMMIT
REVIEW IN "LEONARDO"
Review by Catherine Mason @CathComputerArt , one of my wonderful guests of honor of our four-day-summit in Berlin. I am very glad that it is published now in the Leonardo's review archive, the famous art-science magazine founded by Frank Malina. Herbert, a friend of Frank, was also a member of the editorial artist's board of Lenoardo for many years.
Below once again our family photo of the summit - still nice to look at my fantastic guests of honor, refreshing the wonderful memories! Second photo: Frank Malina's work donated to the foundation and shown in the summit's exhibition in Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg that opened at our Summit's day trip. Finally a photo of "Sandfuction 4K: The OrchidCage", based on @HerbertWFranke visionary sci fi novel from 1961.
leonardo.info/review/2025/01…
