[spectre] CAS October Meeting - George Mallen & AGM

[Paul Brown]

The BCS Computer Arts Society SG is pleased to announce that
our next presentation is by computer arts pioneer and CAS
co-founder George Mallen.  George's talk will be preceded by
our AGM at 6:30 prompt.

This talk is free and members of the public are welcome to
attend.  !Please note the later start!

Wednesday 4 November 2009
AGM: 6:30 prompt
Talk: 7:00 for 7:30pm
Birkbeck College, Centre for Film and Visual Media
43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
Nearest tubes - Euston Square, Warren Street & Russell Square
Map: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps/interactive

Title: Playing, making and knowing - art in a high tech culture
Speaker: George Mallen

At a time of increasing worry about impending crises of many
different sorts - climate, food, water, energy, sociality and
politics etc etc - is art in danger of being chucked into the
corner as mere wealth absorption for those who have and
irrelevant for those who haven't? Often it seems that the
critical  achievements of our culture are quietly made by
scientists and engineers while artists apparently achieve great
public acclaim for rather questionable work. Why is that? My talk
will try to place art, and particularly computer art, in our
growing understanding about the relationship between making,
knowing and the computer as both knowledge repository and engine
of new symbolism.

George has worked with computers since 1962 having had a graduate
appointment in the Mathematics Dept at the Royal Aircraft
Establishment where many of the early pioneers of computing from
Manchester and Bletchley Park had gathered. From there he  went
on to work with Gordon Pask on various cybernetic ideas. He
co-founded System Simulation Ltd in 1970 and that has been his
focus since. Diversions along the way have included academic
involvements such as helping create the Department of Design
Research at the Royal College of Art and introducing computing
activities to the RCA. Another academic innovation was the
creation of the Department of Communication and Media at
Bournemouth University. But, these diversions included, over the
years, SSL has supported computer art and the role of computers
in cultural activities in many ways since its inception.


The CAS Autumn Programme concludes:
Wed 02 Dec - Iris Asaf

CAS - supporting the computer arts for over 40 years
The BCS CAS SG is a British Computer Society Specialist Group

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

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