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🎞️ About The Episode 🎞️
Discover how artists first engaged with computers and why their experiments remain crucial
for understanding the relationship between art and technology now.
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In this episode of Artist and Computer, host Bea Taylor Searle speaks with Catherine Mason,
an art historian, curator, and writer specialising in the history of digital and computer art. Catherine
is the author of A Computer in the Art Room: The Origins of British Computer Arts 1950–1980,
a landmark text that documents the early years of artists experimenting with technology in the UK.
Together, Bea and Catherine revisit the original questions posed in Ruth Leavitt’s 1976 anthology
Artist and Computer, reflecting on how artists first engaged with computers, the challenges
that computer art has faced to enter the mainstream art world, and why these conversations remain vital today.
The beaultiful cover is designed by Lonni Omarii, you can follow her work on Instagram @rgb.lon
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