Catherine Mason

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 link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

@jamesbloom_ Agreed

I am genuinely fascinated by the nerdy, philosophical side of art. I love the obscure phenomenological and conceptual work, the stuff that's influential but often misunderstood. I don't see a problem with artists making their work hard to get, it's more of a challenge

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/NRCG…

@ArielBaronRobb1 @postanika 🙏

youtu.be/qdwZUufK7XQ?si… @CathComputerArt @postanika

@Merzmensch @the_ai_art_mag 👏

I am proud to have contributed to The AI Art Magazine with my essay on Spatial Dreams of the Machine. #aiart #kikunst @the_ai_art_mag

And my page was featured in @grafikmag - history is not dead! 🥳Well done @the_ai_art_mag

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

So much good stuff in here! Very impressive artist-run publication

@jamesbloom_ Was a great event! Thank you

Here's a recording of the talk I gave at the Computer Arts Society last week. CAS is really the Final Boss, the OG of OGs of computer art history in London. Honoured to talk about my work there youtube.com/watch?v=VC6B6l…

@matdryhurst @cosmicblend Yes indeed

Now that you can hypothetically build anything the hardest question to answer in specific is what you want and why

@viktorbezic @Noahbolanowski Yes, some, in that several of the New Tendencies artists did also exhibit at Cybernetic Serendipity. It was a small world back then and almost everyone knew each other.

@Noahbolanowski Any overlap with the New Tendencies movement?

A (very) rare video of 1968's Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition at ICA, London (Aug 2 - Oct 20, 1968). From Visualisation: Art et Cybernétique, French Broadcasting Corp., 1968.

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

@v3ga So nice

New catalogue in the collection. Vera Molnar Caen – Paris 1979 The cover is silkscreen-printed in gold. A few photos of the inside ↓

@quasimondo @HerbertWFranke @CarlCanary Wonderful

New addition to my book collection: catalog from the 1972 exhibition "Grenzgebiete der bildenden Kunst" at Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. It has a lot of the pioneers of generative art, as well as texts by @HerbertWFranke, @CarlCanary and others.

@michaelspalter @eli_schein @annespalter How lovely is this?

Quiet Sunday browsing the incomparable Spalter Digital collection. A few favorites: Ben Laposky - Oscillon 1186 (1960) George Ness - Werkstatt Edition Kroll (1970) Duane Palyka - Strange Bird (1970)

@orlainberlin @postanika youtu.be/qdwZUufK7XQ?si…

@CathComputerArt @postanika Was this recorded? I would like to listen.

💭 Tomorrow, 19 November at 7 PM, I’ll be giving an online talk for the Computer Arts Society titled »Why are there so many great women artists in the Age of AI?« When I came up with the question more than six months ago, I had a very different talk in mind than the one it has become—due to recent events. 🎙️ Moderated by Catherine Mason (@CathComputerArt). Invited by Paul Brown and Geoff Davis (@microartsgroup).

@orlainberlin @postanika Recording now up! youtu.be/qdwZUufK7XQ?si…

@orlainberlin @postanika Yes, will post as soon as it’s edited 🙏

@Noahbolanowski Yes I’d say you’re correct. He went all around the country giving talks and showing work

I believe this is an exhibition for Lloyd Sumner — below is the Sheraton Motor Inn mentioned in the newspaper ad, from the same era.

Six Decades On, Digital Art Still Offers "Something Entirely Different." From The Richmond Times Dispatch, Dec 28, 1969.

@Noahbolanowski Nice!

Trapezes or lines? (1200%) by Vera Molnar, 1987-2014.