[spectre] First CAS Lecture for Autumn 2012: Armin Medosch 23rd October 2012

[Paul Brown]

Dear All,

I'm pleased to announce that historian and theorist Dr Armin Medosch will be delivering the first CAS Lecture this autumn. He will discuss the question of visual research with computers as reflected in the New Tendencies art movement. This of course involved several key members of CAS, not least Alan Sutcliffe and Gustav Metzger. The details are:

Tuesday 23rd October
6pm for 6:15
BCS London Office
First Floor
The Davidson Building, 
5 Southampton Street
London, WC2E 7HA

MAP: http://www.bcs.org/upload/pdf/london-office-guide.pdf

From Programmed Art to Visual Research with Computers: The New Tendencies (1961-1973)

An exhibition in Zagreb in 1961 inaugurated an international art movement under the name New Tendencies. Under the slogan of 'art as visual research' they invented new types of objects and so called 'programmed art' which involved the viewer in participatory fields of interaction. In 1968 New Tendencies turned to the computer as a medium of visual research, at the same time as the seminal exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity in London. Yet New Tendencies wanted to create more than just exhibitions and symposia. They tried to initiate an international research network on the computer as a medium of visual research, and, in doing so, developed lively connections with the newly founded British Computer Arts Society. At a second computer art symposium in 1969 a Zagreb manifesto, written by Jonathan Benthall, Gordon Hyde and Gustav Metzger was read out publicly. The lecture explores the continuity but also the rupture between visual research without and with computers. The relationship between manual and intellectual labour in industry and in artistic research serves as a key analytic tool to understand what New Tendencies were about.

 
Armin Medosch works as a practitioner, curator and writer in expanded media art practices since the 1980s. Living in Austria, Germany and the UK, he has contributed to the practice and discourse on network culture and art and technology as a curator of exhibitions, convenor of conferences, critic and theorist. From 1996 to 2002 he was co-editor-in-chief of the online magazine Telepolis. He has recently  been awarded the degree of  Ph.D. in Arts and Computational Technology at Goldsmiths, University of London.

http://www.thenextlayer.org/ArminMedosch

I look forward to seeing you there.

Nick Lambert
Chair, CAS

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Nick Lambert DPhil            
Lecturer in Digital Art and Culture                           
Department of History of Art & Screen Media
Birkbeck, University of London
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