Please forward to interested friends and associates. The Computer Arts Society is pleased to invite you to our March meeting. This event is open to the public and is free. You are invited to attend a little earlier - at 6:30 - for a glass of wine to celebrate the informal launch of the from MIT Press. See: http://tinyurl.com/644t5h Three of the books four editors and several contributors will be present.
Please note we have also changed our meetings to 'the first Wednesday of the month!' Wednesday 4 March 2009 6:30 for 7:00pm London Knowledge Lab - Institute of Education 23 - 29 Emerald St London WC1N 3QS, England Tube: Holborn, Russell Square or Chancery Lane Map: http://tinyurl.com/6h5cds Francesca Franco 1970 - the first computer art show at the Venice Biennale: an experiment or product of the bourgeois culture? "My talk focuses on the history of the first computer art show held at the Venice Biennale in 1970 and its political and social context. What consequences did this show bring about to the Biennale? "I propose to consider the 1970 Venice Biennale as a reflection of the global changes in the art world that happened in the late 1960s in response to technological developments. Two earlier events, namely the Tendencies 4 exhibition in Zagreb and the First Nuremberg Biennale, both held in 1969, foreshadow these changes. I will consider works presented by artists such as Herbert Franke, Frieder Nake, Georg Nees and the Computer Technique Group (CGT, Japan), to discuss to what extent the Biennale reflected different approaches to computer art in western and eastern countries. I will also analyse the way technology brought to the Biennale a new wave of creativity, but at the same time an element of destabilisation to the traditional asset of the Biennale institution." Francesca Franco is an associate lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London, within the School of History of Art, Film & Visual Media (2007-present). She is currently completing her PhD in history of art on the relationship between art, technology and politics in the context of the Venice Biennale, 1966-1986, at Birkbeck College. She holds an MA in Digital Art History obtained from the same college. She has been sitting on the editorial board of Computers and the History of Art (CHArt) since 2005. CAS 1968-2009 - supporting the Computer Arts for over 40 years http://www.computer-arts-society.org CAS is a BCS Specialist Group Future CAS meetings: Wed 1 Apr - Rob Saunders (note change!) Wed 6 May - Jorn Ebner ==== Paul Brown - based in Germany Jan - Feb 2009 mailto:[email protected] == http://www.paul-brown.com UK Mobile +44 (0)794 104 8228 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 Skype paul-g-brown ==== Artist in Residence, compArt Project - Bremen University ==== _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
