[spectre] CAS May Meeting - Parallel Evolution: the Patric Prince Collection and the emergence of SIGGRAPH

[Paul Brown]

The Computer Arts Society continues its 40th Anniversary celebrations  
with a presentation about the emergence of the SIGGRAPH Art Show.   
CAS Meetings are open to the public and are free.  Please circulate  
this invitation to colleagues, students and friends.

"Parallel Evolution: the Patric Prince Collection and the emergence  
of SIGGRAPH as a North American computer arts venue"

Nick Lambert, Doug Dodds, Jeremy Gardiner, Lanfranco Aceti and Honor  
Beddard

Tuesday 6 May 2008
6:60 for 7:00; System Simulation Ltd
Bedford Chambers, The Piazza Covent Garden
London WC2E 8HA, England
http://www.ssl.co.uk/content/map.html

The Computer Arts and Technocultures Project, a joint venture between  
Birkbeck and the Victoria & Albert Museum, recently received AHRC  
funding to research and digitise the Patric Prince Collection of  
computer art. Birkbeck had already collaborated with CAS and SSL  
through the CACHe Project and this resulted in CAS's collection of  
computer art being donated to the V&A.

Computer Art and Technocultures is studying the wider area of  
international computer art as it emerged in parallel with the  
developing computer graphics industry, especially in conjunction with  
SIGGRAPH during the 1980s. The interchange between new technologies  
and artistic practice, and also the opportunities afforded by an art  
show attached to a major conference, ensured that SIGGRAPH became one  
of the principle nodes for computer art. Patric Prince was closely  
connected with the art show and chaired it in 1986.

We will consider how her collection connects with the art show  
(especially the retrospective on computer art she put together in  
1986), how new artists and technologies were represented, and whether  
the situation of computer art has changed since the area was  
discussed in a special SIGGRAPH in 1989.

The members of the Computer Arts and Technocultures team will each  
examine different aspects of the project, with presenters including  
Nick Lambert, Doug Dodds, Jeremy Gardiner, Lanfranco Aceti and Honor  
Beddard.

http://www.computer-arts-society.org/

2008 = CAS 40!

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