<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The Computer Arts Society’s 2024 series of events continues</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Algorithmic Photography by Alex May</span></b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Exhibition Opening and Artist Talk </span></b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Speaker: Alex May; Moderator: Sean Clark</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="x-1484713863highlight"><span style="background: yellow;">This event is In Person and Zoom and open to the public and is free but you must book your place here:</span></span> https://computerartssociety030424.eventbrite.co.uk/<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">19:00 BST, Tuesday, 2 April 2024</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Other time zones here: </span></span><a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">https://www.timeanddate.com</span></a><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">This event will be held In Person at the BCS London HQ and via Zoom.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br><span class="x-1484713863size">25 Copthall Avenue</span><br><span class="x-1484713863size">London, EC2R 7BP, UK</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Directions here: </span></span><a href="https://www.bcs.org/about-us/our-london-office-and-event-venue/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">https://www.bcs.org/about-us/our-london-office-and-event-venue/</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Internationally renowned digital artist Alex May will discuss “Algorithmic Photography”, a technique he created and pioneered to capture data and reveal hidden or unnoticed information in his own moving image artworks using bespoke computer vision algorithms that he has coded in C++. </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Through a multistage process encompassing video capture, motion detection, and colour space conversion, his abstracted compound compositions emerge, exploring subjects as diverse as ant swarms and starling murmurations, to wind farms and New York taxis. Central to May’s practice is an attempt to understand time and memory through digital processes.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">“Algorithmic Photography” brings together twenty images for the first time that provide a broad contextualising overview of the techniques and subject matter May has been engaging with over the past eight years in his Algorithmic Photography practice.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size">His wider artistic practice questions how our individual and collective experiences of time, and formation of memories and cultural record, are mediated, expanded, and directed by contemporary technologies. The work forges creative links between art, science, and technology through a wide range of digital new media, including virtual and augmented reality, photogrammetry, photography, interactive robotic artworks, video projection mapping, generative works, performance, and video and sound art.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">May has an international exhibition profile, including Tate Modern (London), MIT Museum (USA), Nobel Prize Museum (Sweden), ZKM (Germany), Ars Electronica (Austria), Milan Triennale (Italy), Beijing Art and Technology Biennale (China), WRO Media Art Biennale (Poland), HeK Basel (Switzerland), Kunstlerhaus Vienna (Austria), Victoria & Albert Museum (London), The Francis Crick Institute (London), Science Gallery Dublin (Ireland) and Science Gallery Bengaluru (India), ZHI Art Museum (China), and the Beall Center for Art + Technology, University of California, Irvine (USA). His work is held in the collections of ZKM, The Computer Arts Society, and The Amelia Scott (Tunbridge Wells).</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Alex May's website is <a href="https://alexmayarts.co.uk/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">https://alexmayarts.co.uk/</a> and he can be found on Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), and YouTube as @alexmayarts<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The event will be recorded and uploaded to the CAS YouTube Channel.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863highlight"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background: yellow;">This event is In Person and Zoom and open to the public and is free but you must book your place here:</span></span><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> https://computerartssociety030424.eventbrite.co.uk/</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="x-1484713863size"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">_____________________________________________________________________</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; background: white;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Our next meeting will be a talk by Bronaċ Ferran on 17 April 2024 – in person & zoom</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">You can see our future programme here: <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; background: white;"><a href="https://computer-arts-society.com/events/index.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">https://computer-arts-society.com/events/index.html</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></div></div>
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