Computer Arts Society

Thank you to @williamlathamart for a fantastic start to our year with his talk for our Annual Jasia Reichardt Lecture @weare_bcs earlier this month! Here he is with Jasia herself. Prof. William Latham talk’s covered his lifelong career from art student, researcher, games designer, through to his current work with @googledeepmind Author Jasia Reichardt was the organiser of the 1968 Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition, after whom the annual lecture series is named. ✨ Watch a recording on our @youtube channel 🔗 in profile ✨ #generativeart #digitalarts #aiart #historyofart #artlecture @goldsmithscomparts

Hello & welcome to the Computer Arts Society! I am Catherine Mason, @cathcomputerarthistory - one of the committee members & I’ll be running this account. Here I am having a laugh with Jasia Reichardt recently…. 🔗 Please do tag us - @computerartssoc in any of your posts for Computer Arts Society activities. Jasia Reichardt has been a friend of CAS since the beginning. She was involved in talks with Alan Sutcliffe, George Mallen and John Lansdown about forming the Society back in October 1968, following the groundbreaking exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity that she curated @icalondon in August 1968. We are a not for profit group of like-minded individuals from a range of backgrounds with an interest in the relationship of art and technology. Supported by the @weare_bcs Please like and tag our posts as it helps the account grow!🙏

Next Wednesday! CAS Talk “An Unexpected Story: AI and the Writer” led by @microartsgroup ❓What does it mean to build your own tools in a culture where most people are using someone else’s ❓ Computer-generated text is not new. From the first procedural poems of 1952 through hypertext fiction, net art, and early neural text experiments, artists and programmers have been exploring what machines can do with language long before @chatgpt turned it into a mainstream source of fascination and anxiety. Today, the concerns are real: ownership, authorship, payment, and what still counts as human work. This talk traces the hidden history behind those questions through the work of David Link and Geoff Davis. ➡️ Wednesday 20th, 6pm in the UK 💻 free webinar : sign up @eventbrite 🔗 in profile / #aiwriting #aitext #aiartcommunity

Congratulations to our longtime member @paul_brown2018 on his one man show @nrcgballina ! Paul is a pioneer of computer-generated art inspired by a-life, since the mid-1970s. A graduate of the @sladeschool , he won the @acmsiggraph 2023 Distinguished Artist Award. 👀 Download a pdf of the catalogue 🔗 in profile (if you don’t see a two-page spread, please download and view locally) & check out his website ➡️ https://paul-brown.art 📸 photos of the opening by Paula Cordeiro @eco.textilestudio 🙏 #computerart #creativecomputation #digitalart

Congratulations to @paul_brown2018 on his solo show @nrcgballina ! I was honoured to write the catalogue essay, “Making Visible Abstract Thoughts: Paul Brown’s Art as Process” - I’ve known Paul since 2002, and have always eagerly awaited his latest work 💫 ➡️ Short excerpt: “Paul Brown has spent over six decades exploring the intersection of art and technology through systems based on mathematical logic. A pioneer of computer-based art since the 1970s, he was an early adopter of artificial life principles (a-life) and the learning systems that anticipate today’s artificial intelligence. Rather than depicting the natural world, Brown studies its processes by devising mathematical systems that generate entire universes of new form and composition. For him, process is both a way of thinking and a means of creation - mathematics becomes not just a tool but a language for communicating ideas about humanity’s relationship to the ordered cosmos. He makes intangible ideas visible, transforming the unseen laws of logic into palpable artistic experiences.” 👀 download free pdf 📲 🔗 in profile (if you don’t see a two-page spread, please download and view locally) Glorious colour! 🎨🤖 #alife #computerart #creativecomputation #mathematicalart #abstractart

Our next event: THE UNEXPECTED STORY - Al & TEXT ✍️ 🤖 Are we witnessing novel forms of collaboration or fundamental challenges to artistic authenticity ❓ Professional writers are alarmed by the use of Al - to the extent that a recent novel edited using Al has been withdrawn from publication, and its author subjected to a predictable pile-on of outrage - despite the fact that almost all writers use Al in some form, for plot and character ideas, research, grammar, style checking, or simply as a creative stimulus. Hosted by Geoff Davis @microartsgroup with special guest Dr David Link & María Cecilia Reyes + more speakers to be announced. Join us to discuss this and more, Wednesday 20 May - webinar 6pm UK time ➡️ Online only 💻 FREE booking 🔗 in profile, via @eventbriteuk - #aiartcommunity #aiwriting #aitext

New recording of our last event “Move Fast and Break Things: Control, Progress and the Black Box” with @jamesbloom01 & @alexmayarts , asked Should we dismantle the machine by taking it apart line-by-line, or by pushing it until it crashes? (talk took place 19 April @weare_bcs HQ Moorgate, moderated by @cloudmemory , organised by @microartsgroup ) ➡️ 🎥 🔗 in profile @youtube , filmed by Alex May #generativeart #aiart #digitalart

Jack Tait exhibit @goldsmithsuol , part of the “Robotic Atelier” Exhibition & Symposium by EACVA @gold.computing , curated by our Chair @seancuttlefish with contemporary contributions by @paul_mazzitelli 👀➡️ our website & @youtube for more info & videos on Jack Tait, a longtime member of CAS! #machineart #machinedrawing #analoguecomputing

🌱✨ You’re invited ✨🌱 📅 22 April 2026 | 6–7PM
🎟️ Free tickets – link in bio Swipe through time and connection - from a 1960 portrait of my grandfather Anwar Jalal Shemza, to his Roots painting (1984) and into work created by a student from today’s digital collaborations with the ArtForum Youth Group at @wolvesartandculture , using our bespoke fractal growth software. Join us for the online launch of shemza.digital roots - a collaborative project exploring digital art, cultural heritage, and wellbeing. Bridging generations, the project brings my grandfather’s legacy into dialogue with contemporary digital practice and collective creativity. Developed through a series of research and co-creation workshops alongside artists, musicians, curators and technologists, the project invites you into shared connection through interactive digital art. Supported by the Estate of Anwar Jalal Shemza and @aceagrams Tagging our incredible collaborators below 👇 Daniel Lowe - Curator Arabic Collections, British Library @billable_hours_ 
Hammad Nasar - Advisor @hammad_nasar_8 
Shireen Qureshi - Musician, NYX @shireenqart 
Sian O’gorman - Musician, NYX @nyx.edc 
Suren Seneviratne - Musician, Petit Oiseau @mypandashallfly 
Jatinder Singh Durhailay - Musician, Petit Oiseau
Jamie Howard - Programmer 
Razwan Ul Haq - Arabic Calligrapher @razwanartist 
Angie Tiwari - Meditation expert @tiwariyoga 
Stella Sideli - Coach @stellasideli Works from the project will form part of the Computer Arts Archive collection @computerartssoc , alongside student talks at Central Saint Martins @ualcsm and Middlesex University @middlesexuniversity and a forthcoming paper with the Electronic Visual Arts Conference @evalondonconf Image credits: 1. Portrait of Anwar Jalal Shemza, 1960 2. Roots painting, 1984 3. Created by ArtForum youth group using the shemza.digital roots co-creation software by Aphra Shemza & Jamie Howard, 2026. ArtForum is coordinated by RAG arts Rosalind Manasseh as part of Wolverhampton Art Gallery’s youth programs and supported by Dinosaur Kilby Creative Producer: Digital. #DigitalArt #CreativeTechnology #ArtLaunch #NewMediaArt #ShemzaDigital ArtCommunity

Our new book about #quantum thinking in art is out now! Edited by CAS Committee member David Upton @codedwalls with contributions by: Prof James Davenport, Professor of Information Technology @uniofbath , member of the @weare_bcs Council Astryd Park, @astrydpark , artist, Quantum Application Engineer with @mothquantum Harry Kumar, @harrykumar_ , Chief Creative Officer @mothquantum Sarah Selby, @sarahselbyart , artist, @lumen_prize winner, currently researching @ual_cci Ola Bamgboye, artist and scientist, CEO at UQuantum Ltd, formerly working in the UK Cabinet Office, educated @sladeschool Ernest Edmonds, artist @eaedmonds “The Q Word” 📖 Available on @amazon 🔗 in profile 👀 AND don’t forget to watch the recording of the event @youtube #quantumart #quantumartist

Are interested in discovering what #quantumcomputing can do for your art? 👀 ➡️ Check out the recording of our recent “qWord” event! https://youtu.be/KnR6WrZ-T-o?si=aAbqgPg9c5O5Yhaa 🔗 in profile or search “Computer Arts Society “ on @youtube With contributions by : Prof James Davenport, Professor of Information Technology @uniofbath , member of the @weare_bcs Council David Upton, @codedwalls , artist, Secretary of CAS Astryd Park, @astrydpark , artist, Quantum Application Engineer with @mothquantum Harry Kumar, @harrykumar_ ,Chief Creative Officer @mothquantum Sarah Selby, @sarahselbyart , artist, @lumen_prize winner, currently researching @ual_cci Ola Bamgboye, artist and scientist, CEO at UQuantum Ltd, formerly working in the UK Cabinet Office, educated @sladeschool

The Computer Arts Society remembers Sarah Mallen (1941–2026), a good and supportive friend to @computerartssoc and its members from the earliest days. Read this tribute by CAS Committee member @cathcomputerarthistory 🔗 in profile