<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;"><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;"><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-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><font size="5">Unreliable Past</font></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Speaker: Lev Manovich; Moderator: Bronaċ Ferran</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 GMT, Wednesday, 15 May 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;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">This event will be held via Zoom only.<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;"><i>I will describe a number of characteristics of visual generative media (i.e., “GenAI") that I believe are particularly significant or novel. My arguments draw on both the history of art from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, and the recent history of digital media over the last forty years. They also reflect my own experience as an artist who was trained in traditional art techniques and then started working with computers in 1984. I will also discuss the ideas behind some of my generative artworks included in my recent personal exhibitions, “Unreliable Past” and “Memory, Draw" (2023-2024).</i><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;">Lev Manovich – <o:p></o:p><a href="http://manovich.net/">http://manovich.net/</a> – is an artist, author, and one of the world's most influential digital culture theorists. Currently, he is the Presidential Professor of Computer Science at the City University of New York's Graduate Center and the Director of the Cultural Analytics Lab. His books include Artificial Aesthetics, Cultural Analytics, AI Aesthetics, Instagram and Contemporary Image, Software Takes Command, and The Language of New Media. </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 Zoom only and is open to the public and is free but you must book your place here</span><o:p></o:p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://computerartssociety150524.eventbrite.co.uk/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">https://ComputerArtsSociety150524.eventbrite.co.uk</a></span></div><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium;"></span><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;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Our next meeting will be the CAS Members Exhibition Opening and talks on 26 June 2024 In Person and Zoom.<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;"><font color="#954f72"><a href="https://computer-arts-society.com/events/index.html">https://computer-arts-society.com/events/index.html</a></font><u><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><o:p></o:p></span></u></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;"><br></div></div></div></div>
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