Computer Arts Society
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About the Society
Upcoming events
- CAS Spring Programme
- 6 April: REVISION - no meeting.
- 4 May: Tina Gonsalves at the London Knowledge Lab
- 14-16 June: Computational Aesthetics - CAe 2010 at BCS
- 5-7 July: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts – EVA 2010 at BCS
- 26 July: Films by LeGrice, Leggett, Edmonds, Fell
News
A significant recent book White Heat Cold Logic records the pioneering British computer art of the period 1960 to 1980.
Co-editors of the book are Paul Brown, Charlie Gere, Nick Lambert and Catherine Mason, all members of CAS.
More about the book See the book on the publisher’s site at MIT Press
The Computer Arts Society now has a Facebook page.
About the Society
Aims
The Computer Arts Society (CAS) promotes the creative uses of computers in the arts and culture generally. It is a community of interest for all involved in doing, managing, interpreting and understanding information technology's cultural potential.
Events
Monthly meetings are held in London. See Programme for details.
Membership & Fees
If you are a BCS member you join CAS via your Specialist Group options.
If you are not, then:
- Go to www.jiscmail.ac.uk
- Open a new account (if you don't have one already) and join the list CAS.
You may also be interested to join our sister list DASH (Digital ArtS Histories)
BCS – The Chartered Institute for IT
The CAS is a Specialist Group of the BCS.
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Archiving computer arts
The original CAS was active from 1968 until the mid 1980s. There were significant archives of material from this era, mainly stored in homes and offices of people then active in the group. The CAS has worked closely with CACHe, a project in the Department of History of Art, Film and Visual media at Birkbeck, University of London, documenting UK computer arts in the years to 1980.
This leads to a wider interest in the archiving, study and presentation of computer arts from earlier years.
Present & future computer arts
With so many novel and exciting developments in the creative uses of computers in the arts the society has resumed its original aims of bringing together those active in this area.
Collaboration
The society holds joint events with other BCS Specialist Groups and other professional groups and associations.
Education
The CAS plans to have an educational role in making students more aware of early work in computer arts and in helping artists to use computers creatively. CAS recently merged with CADE - Computers in Art and Design Education.