Exhibition Opening: Sue Gollifer / Jack Tait Retrospectives

10th December 2024, 18:00
BCS Moorgate, London

Part of the Sue Gollifer Retrospective Exhibition

Sue Gollifer and Jack Tait celebrate the opening of their respective retrospectives at BCS Moorgate, hosted by Anna Dumitriu. The evening brings together two pioneering digital artists to reflect on teaching, practice, drawing machines and the development of computer arts in the UK. A full video recording is available below.

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About the Event

This opening event launches the Sue Gollifer Retrospective and the Jack Tait Retrospective at BCS Moorgate, London.

About the Speakers

Sue Gollifer

CASCOM, Exhibitors

Sue Gollifer

Sue Gollifer has enjoyed a sixty-year career as an influential digital artist, curator, administrator, researcher and academic. At the University of Brighton, she established one of the first postgraduate MA programmes in Digital Media Arts. During the 1990s, she founded the Computers in Art and Design Education conference and curated ArCade, the UK’s first open international biennial exhibition of digital fine-art prints. She has served on numerous advisory boards, including ISEA, whose international headquarters she ran for 15 years, and SIGGRAPH, chairing its 2004 art show. In 2006, she received an iDMAa award for exceptional service to the international new-media community.

Jack Tait

Speaker

Jack Tait

No biography available.

About the Host

Anna Dumitriu

CASCOM

Anna Dumitriu

Anna Dumitriu is an internationally renowned pioneering British contemporary artist who works with BioArt, sculpture, installation, and digital media to explore our relationship with nature and technology focussing on infectious diseases, synthetic biology, AI and robotics. Past exhibitions include ZKM, Ars Electronica, BOZAR, The Picasso Museum, Kunstlerhaus Vienna, MIT Museum, HeK Basel, the Nobel Prize Museum, Science Gallery Bengaluru, MOCA Taipei, Art Laboratory Berlin, the History of Science Museum Oxford, the 6th Guangzhou Triennial and Eden Project. Her work has featured in many significant publications including Frieze, Artforum International Magazine, Leonardo Journal, The Art Newspaper, Nature and The Lancet.