Writer on history of computer art, gen. art and art & tech. Mostly on Instagram at CathComputerArtHistory linktr.ee/cathcomputerarthis…
Joined March 2024
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12 Jun 2024
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
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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…
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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
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So much good stuff in here! Very impressive artist-run publication
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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
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24 Sep 2025
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 🙏
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22 Sep 2025
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.
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25 Jun 2025
My paper for Creativity & Cognition 2025, workshop on Explainable AI xaixarts.github.io/accepted-…
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5 May 2025
In London this week? Come and hear a talk I’m giving Wednesday @BartlettArchUCL : ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/20…
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4 May 2025
Thanks James, so glad you enjoyed! 🙏😊
A Computer in the Art Room: the Origins of British Computer Arts 1950-1980 amzn.eu/d/13zCjjR
29 Apr 2025
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
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"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.'
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6 Feb 2025
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… 🙏
6 Feb 2025
“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
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4 Feb 2025
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! 😊)
4 Feb 2025
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…
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18 Jan 2025
Thank you to the @Foundation_HWF for commissioning me. This will appear in the June print issue of @LeonardoISAST with pictures!
18 Jan 2025
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.
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31 Dec 2024
What a great year - thank you everyone for your support. Wishing you a happy and creative 2025!
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16 Dec 2024
Sue Gollifer exhibition catalogue now available as a free PDF @computerartssoc: computer-arts-society.com/ex…
I contributed an interview with the artist
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4 Dec 2024
Hi hi 👋🏼
Have you marked your calendar for tonight’s talk with Eduardo Kac and @CathComputerArt?
We are very much looking forward to an inspiring session! 🎙️
3 Dec 2024
Coming up next for MATERIAL POETRY:
Join us Wednesday (Dec. 4) at 6:30pm CET on virtual.hek.ch for an evening with Eduardo Kac in conversation with @CathComputerArt.
The artist will also perform live three of his celebrated poems - don’t miss it!
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3 Dec 2024
Hope to see you virtually for this event tomorrow! virtual.hek.ch
3 Dec 2024
Coming up next for MATERIAL POETRY:
Join us Wednesday (Dec. 4) at 6:30pm CET on virtual.hek.ch for an evening with Eduardo Kac in conversation with @CathComputerArt.
The artist will also perform live three of his celebrated poems - don’t miss it!
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