September-November 2025
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, London

Exhibition - visitors need to book, see below

Speakers: Marcus West, Sean Clark
Moderator: Sean Clark
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Location: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, 25 Copthall Avenue, London, EC2R 7BP, UK
Directions: https://www.bcs.org/about-us/our-london-office-and-event-venue/

Visit the Moorgate London exhibitions: please email info@computer-arts-society.com for booking details.

See further information on Marcus's talk, art images, notes and exhibition photos.

Many people in the field of Computer Art are fascinated by the use of computers to participate in the process of drawing or artistic creation. By contrast, Marcus West is: 'much more focused on the product, the result. My goal is to create images with impact, complexity and subtlety, works that are striking but that do not reveal all their secrets at a single glance. A theme in some works has been a sense of Light existing in their hinterland, such that the works may offer a glimpse beyond, perhaps even a glimpse of transcendence. Although the programs are written by me, they may still offer surprises as they unfold in detail, and I typically "tweak" various aspects of a program many times in my attempt to achieve the effect I am seeking.'

Marcus West has a 20 print exhibition (September-November 2025). His journey with digital art began in the 1970s at University College Cardiff, as it then was. He created geometrically-inspired line drawings by writing programs in FORTRAN that ran on the university's mainframe computer, which in turn controlled a plotting device. Since the early 2000s, he has mainly used Pascal and Processing to create his images, enhancing them using Photoshop and Affinity Photo.

The presentations were followed by musical works composed by West using the EMS Synthi-100 in 1980 that will accompany the exhibition viewing and reception. The event will be recorded and uploaded to the CAS YouTube Channel.

To visit the exhibitions at BCS Moorgate London, please email info@computer-arts-society.com