<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;"><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 -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>R E M I N D E R</b></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The Computer Arts Society’s 2024 series of events continues<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Unearthing Digital Tendencies in Post-War Texts in Print<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></p><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Speaker: Bronaċ Ferran; Moderator: Sean Clark<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">19:00 BST, Wednesday, 17 April 2024<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Other time zones here: <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">https://www.timeanddate.com</a> <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">This event will be held In Person at the BCS London HQ and via Zoom.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT<br>25 Copthall Avenue<br>London, EC2R 7BP, UK<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Directions here: <a href="https://www.bcs.org/about-us/our-london-office-and-event-venue/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">https://www.bcs.org/about-us/our-london-office-and-event-venue/</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Building on her recent doctoral thesis (Birkbeck, University of London, 2023 <a href="https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/51176/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/51176/</a>) and on her contribution to LACMA's <i>CODED: ART ENTERS THE COMPUTER AGE </i>catalogue (2023), Bronaċ Ferran addresses the emergence of digital tendencies in print and text-based practices in the post-war period. She will highlight connections between concrete poetry, typography and early computer arts practices as seen in works by Hansjörg Mayer and his circle of relations that included Jasia Reichardt, Max Bense, Frieder Nake, Dieter Rot and Emmett Williams. <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Bronaċ Ferran is a writer and (co) curator of exhibitions including 'Poetry, Language, Code' (2012); 'Brown & Son: Art That Makes Itself - Purveyors of digital images since 1968' (2015) & '...and the bunny goes POP!' (2018) <a href="https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/and-the-bunny-goes-pop" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/and-the-bunny-goes-pop</a>. She has also curated three concrete poetry exhibitions. In 2017 her monograph on Hansjörg Mayer was published by König books. In 2023 she wrote exhibition catalogue essays on Stephen Willats and Paul Brown and is currently completing a new essay on Waldemar Cordeiro for his Summer 2024 exhibition at The Mayor Gallery in London. She is a Visiting Research Fellow this year at the University of Hertfordshire and a regular contributor to Studio International magazine. <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The event will be recorded and uploaded to the CAS YouTube Channel.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><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. In person places are limited and early booking is advised:</span> <a href="https://17april24cas.eventbrite.co.uk/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">https://17april24cas.eventbrite.co.uk/</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">__________________________<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Our next meeting will be a talk by Lev Manovich on 15 May 2024 – Zoom only.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br>You can see our future programme here: <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://computer-arts-society.com/events/index.html" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">https://computer-arts-society.com/events/index.html</a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div><br>
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