Andy Lomas is a self-confessed code junky, saying, I write it for my own pleasure. His Morphogenetic Creations on view earlier this year at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, has just been awarded one of the best artworks at the Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) conference recently held in London. This month at the BCS he shares with us this amazing image and his coding vision.
This month we are considering a truly extraordinary use of the digital. Artist and creative entrepreneur Anna Hill is exploring how immersive art can communicate the human experience of space travel and, in her words, bring space down to earth. Read all about her unique approach in our BCS feature here:http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/52588
Digital Opera is emerging as a new art form and our BCS image this month is a still fromSecret Garden, the world’s first opera and ballet created for the iPad by media artist Professor Martin Rieser from his original poems, set to music by composer Professor Andrew Hugill. It aims to recreate a contemporary interactive version of the Eden myth in an urban environment through a virtual reality amalgam of animation, poetry and sound. Full article here: http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/52341
I was saddened to hear of the passing of Alan Sutcliffe at the end of February; he was a great pioneer of computer arts, including music and graphics. Alan was a big source of inspiration and support to me when writing A Computer in the Art Room and I feel proud that we have this and White Heat Cold Logic to stand as a legacy to at least one aspect of his creative life. Here he is in 2008 at the launch of A Computer in the Art Room, reminiscing with Stroud Cornock, watched by Jeni Bougourd and Gustav Metzger. See my obit for the BCS here: http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/52263.
James Faure Walker’s art is fundamentally about painting; the act of applying paint, whether it be digital or physical, to a surface. The pictorial elements of line, form, space and most of all colour work together to create an art that is appealing to the eye, yet intrigues and resonates with the viewer, staying with us long after we look away. Our featured image this month for the BCS is no exception, read the full article here.
It was my great pleasure recently to spend the afternoon with Barbara Nessim, a pioneer in digital art and illustration, and to hear first-hand about her inspiring career spanning six decades. She is the BCS-featured artist this month, read the full article here.
A significant body of her work has been donated to the Victoria & Albert Museum, where it was exhibited in 2013 accompanied by the beautiful monograph Barbara Nessim: An Artful Life, (which I can highly recommend).
My recent book launch – Janice Sylvia Brock: My Life on Canvas was a huge success with over 200 people in attendance, welcomed by Sir Cliff Richard at Sugar Hill Club House, Barbados. See photographs here.
The superb exhibition surveying 12 centuries of Chinese art currently on view at the Victoria & Albert Museum (to 19 Jan), showcases a culture that values continuity, tradition and repetition. Also evident is the strong history within Chinese art of honouring the artistic achievements of the preceding generation through the deliberate mimicking of previous styles of painting. The Shanghai-based Yang Yongliang, our BCS featured artist this month, does exactly this but gives a contemporary interpretation to his traditionally-inspired art, utilising new technology and updated imagery. A fusion of the old with new modalities from the West creates something entirely new in art. Read full article here:http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/51975
My new biography of the English-born, Barbadian-resident painter Janice Sylvia Brockis OUT NOW published by I.B. Tauris. The book launch is Thursday 23rd Januaryat Sugar Hill, St James, Barbados – to be opened by Sir Cliff Richard. If you are going to be on-island, please email me for an invitation.
For the British Computer Society column this month, it’s the annual end of year
special – a celebration of work submitted by readers of the column, BCS & Computer
Arts Society members. This demonstrates the wide variety of work being produced today with digital technology at its heart. Here is just one example, by Susan Rosenberg, fresh from her London exhibition. Read it here:http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/51769