Talks are live audience events at the CAS London BCS Moorgate site. Events are usually live webinars (on Zoom) but can be other things too.
Artists, curators and technologists have been a central part of The Computer Arts Society since its inception in 1968. We now aim to host a monthly online event using Zoom, with face-to-face talks taking place at BCS Moorgate and elsewhere, when the opportunity presents itself. All talks and events are also archived on our YouTube Channel for future access. Our YouTune Channel also contains a growing archive of talks from the EVA London conference.

2025 Talks

• AI & the Arts: Geoff Davis

  Geoff Davis

  6pm 17th June 2025

  

• Transformations through Radical Art Practice

  Bhavani Esapathi

  April 2025

  

• Listen, Scoundrels!

  Sean Carroll

  March 2025

  

• Jasia Reichardt Lecture 2025

  Francesca Franco

  January 2025

  

2024 Talks

• Electromechanical Drawing Machines

  Jack Tait

  December 2024

  

• Peter Zinovieff and Electronic Music Studios

  James Gardner

  November 2024

  

• George Mallen and the Early Computer Arts Society

  Catherine Mason

  September 2024

  

• Research Workshop Pop-Up Show at EVA

  Various Speakers

  July 2024

  

• Lumen Prize Evening Artists In Conversation at EVA

  Various Speakers

  July 2024

  

• Chinese Social Evening at EVA

  Various Speakers

  July 2024

  

• Book Launch Evening at EVA

  Various Speakers

  July 2024

  

• CAS Members Show 2024 Opening

  Various Speakers

  June 2024

  

• Unreliable Past

  Lev Manovich

  May 2024

  

• Unearthing Digital Tendencies in Post-War Texts in Print

  Bronac Ferran

  April 2024

  

• Algorithmic Photography

  Alex May

  April 2024

  

• Analogue Drawing Machines

  Jack Tait and Sean Clark

  March 2024

  

• AI Creative Writing and Art

  Geoff Davis, Ana Cabellero, Patrick Lichty, James Bloom and Johnny Dean

  February 2024

  

• Peter Hardie Exhibition Opening

  Stephen Bell

  February 2024

  

2023 Talks

• The Quantel Paintbox

  Adrian Wilson, Kim Mannes-Abbott and Cesare Massarenti

  December 2023

  

• Talk: Post Internet Curation: Online Art Ecologies of the Web 2.0 Era

  Pita Arreola-Burns and Elliott Burns

  November 2023

  

• The ZKM Digital Art Collection

  Morgan Stricot and Beatrice Zaidenbery

  October 2023

  

• The Aleph Null Projects

  Jim Andrews

  September 2023

  

• Talk: AI and Images

  Geoff Davis, Luba Elliott, Patrick Ehtesabian-Lichty et al.

  June 2023

  

• How Quantel's Paintbox Changed Our World

  Adrian Wilson and Kim Mannes-Abbott

  May 2023

  

• AI and Text Generation

  Geoff Davis et al.

  April 2023

  

• History of AI in the Arts

  Paul Brown, Ernest Edmonds, Stephen Bell and Catherine Mason

  March 2023

  

• CAS Open Evening

  Sean Clark et al.

  February 2023

  

2020/2021 Talks

• Luciana Haill - Apparitions & Pioneer AR

  Luciana Haill

  October 2022

  

• Leicester Computer Arts History

  Sean Clark et al.

  April 2022

  

• Four Decades of the Quantel Paintbox

  Adrian Wilson et al.

  December 2021

  

Lockdown Talks (2020)

• The Computer Arts Archive

  Sean Clark

  June 2020

  

• Elephants Don't Love Peanuts But Humans Do

  boredomresearch

  May 2020

  

• Microworld@Home

  Genetic Moo

  May 2020

  

• Deep Learning as a Creative Collaborator, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI

  Andy Lomas

  May 2020

  

• Network Art In A Lockdown Time

  Ernest Edmonds

  April 2020

  

• 'Luminations' Light Installation

  Esther Rolinson

  April 2020

  

• Edward Ihnatowicz: SAM, The Senster, The Bandit And Other Works

  Alex Zivanovic

  April 2020

  

• A Mirror For Remembering

  Alex May

  April 2020

  

In The Dark 2 (2020)

• In The Dark 2 Genetic Moo

  January 2020

  

• In The Dark 2 - Oliver Gingrich

  January 2020

  

• In The Dark 2 - Aphra Shemza

  January 2020

  

• In The Dark 2 - Andy Lomas

  January 2020

  

• In The Dark 2 Sean Clark

  January 2020

  

• In The Dark 2 - Introducing CAS

  January 2020

  

• In The Dark 2 - Ernest Edmonds

  January 2020

  

CAS50 (2018)

• CAS50 at EVA London 2018

  January 2020

  

• CAS50 Exhibition Opening

  May 2018

  

• Nick Lambert on Computer Art

  March 2018

  

In The Archive

The CAS Events Programme (2018 - 2020) contains details of recent talks. Information on over 100 more can be found in the Speaker Programme (2004 - 2016). Information about earlier speakers at CAS events will be documented in the 1969 - 1985 editions of CAS's PAGE Magazine.