Catherine Mason I was very pleased to contribute to the catalogue for Paul Brown’s latest solo-show at Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina, Australia. Download a PdF here: NRCG-Catalogue-202604.pdf (if you don’t see a two-page spread, please download and view locally).
I was honoured to participate in the Archives of IT oral history project which aims to preserve the heritage of the UK tech sector & inspire future generations. Watch the interview here: Catherine Mason – Archives of IT
This is a fascinating exhibition that centre women’s experiences, and explores questions of what can and cannot be known about people in the past, and how to heal trauma; it was a pleasure to write about it for Studio International: https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/harriet-thomas-weekes-right-to-opacity-joscelyn-gardner-am-i-a-bad-girl-nanny-barbados-museum
This new series, produced by Bea Taylor Searle at Peckham Digital, is about Ruth Leavitt’s groundbreaking book Artist and Computer published in 1976. I kick off the series with this introductory podcast talking to Bea about how artists first engaged with computers and why Leavitt’s book is still relevant today. Listen here!
I am very pleased to have contributed to this issue with the article “Telling Herstory: Women Pioneers of Digital Art”. I highly recommend this artist-led publication with no advertising! Click on picture to order.
Read my review of the amazing 2024 Summit in Berlin last July that drew together some 350 participants in the world of digital art. Organised by the Foundation Herbert W. Franke. Go to Videos tab to see my presentations.
My review of Material Poetry at HEK is now published in Studio International. And join me in HEK’s virtual space, on 4 December to discuss new forms of visual digital poetry with Eduardo Kac and curator Giorgio Vitale.
Join me on Zoom to hear about some of the artists and artworks in my new book – Creative Simulations. Don’t know who George Mallen is? Well, I’ll tell you all about him and the ground-breaking Computer Arts Society project Ecogame of 1970. Ecogame was a simulation model of an economic system, dealt with opportune issues of ecology and environment, and was the first multi-player, digitally driven, interactive gaming system in the UK. It exemplified the CAS belief in a positive ‘human machine interrelationship’ made visible through art. Watch the recording here: YouTube
I’m pleased to be participating in EVA this year on 8 July, in a symposium chaired by Jonathan Bowen and Tula Giannini: Computation, AI, and Creativity. Featuring my new book Creative Simulations, about George Mallen and the history of the Computer Arts Society. Read the EVA paper here. And come to a FREE book launch evening event!
