Exhibition Opening: CAS Members' Exhibition 2024

26^th June 2024, 19:00
BCS Moorgate, London

Part of the CAS Members' Exhibition 2024 Exhibition

CAS chair Sean Clark opens the 2024 members' exhibition at BCS Moorgate, welcoming artists and audiences in person and online. Fourteen speakers introduce selected works spanning generative systems, drawing machines, machine learning and computational imagery. The event encourages discussion, celebrates the accompanying catalogue, and invites submissions for future exhibitions.

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Sean Clark introduces the Computer Arts Society’s members exhibition as a survey of approaches spanning programmed systems, generative AI, image manipulation and manual procedures. Artists explain how their works emerge from rules, materials and experimentation rather than a shared definition of computer art. Dave Everitt and Fania Raczinski visualise magic squares through paths, colour and patterns. David Upton develops pixel transformations from layered photographs, while Stephen Scrivener executes rules by hand and values the process and its emerging variations. Helena Wee connects machine learning style transfer with Chinese elements and environmental concerns. James Alec Hardy links scanned masks, printed images and immersive spaces through forms of a digital asset. Jack Tait describes mechanical randomness and changing line character; Angela Ferraiolo explores layered spatial partitions; and Malte Kosian translates text into colour and abstract arrangements. Paul Hertz relates sound and rhythm to image structures. Shanique Thompson experiments with digital fabrics beyond physical behaviour, Dennis Summers develops evolving colour patterns, and Cynthia Beth Rubin combines microscopic imagery, drawing and digital transformations. Discussion returns to authorship, especially when AI incorporates material from other sources. The presentations foreground selection, process and judgement, while identifying opportunities to include moving image and formats in future exhibitions.

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About the Speakers

Sean Clark

CASCOM, Speaker, Exhibitors

Sean Clark (b. 1965) is an independent artist, curator, and researcher based in Leicestershire, UK. His artwork explores interaction and connectedness through the construction of audiovisual systems presented on screen, as installations, and as prints. He is the director of Interact Digital Arts, the curator of the Computer Arts Archive and Chair of the Computer Arts Society. He holds a PhD in Computational Art from De Montfort University, where he studied under computer art pioneer Ernest Edmonds, and in 2016 was co-winner of the Lumen Prize for 3D/Sculpture and the Art.CHI Digital Art Prize.

Dave Everitt

Speaker

No biography available.

Fania Raczinski

Speaker

No biography available.

David Upton

Speaker

No biography available.

Stephen Scrivener

Speaker

No biography available.

Helena Wee

Speaker

No biography available.

James Alec Hardy

CASCOM

James Alec Hardy (b. 1979) has been producing installation and performance-based works since graduating from Camberwell College of Arts in 2002. His distinct visual language represents his immersion within digital and analog screen-based media. Exhibiting between underground punk scenes and international biennales, his practice interrogates his analog youth in contrast to post internet networks. His studio houses a major collection of obsolete broadcast equipment, creating video feedback and modular sound compositions, digitised for distribution in online worlds. He connects virtual environments to physical works, utilising blockchain technologies, 3D tools, VR and game engines to bridge the digital and the material.

Jack Tait

Speaker

No biography available.

Angela Ferraiolo

Speaker

No biography available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Ferraiolo