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.

Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii.

Music by Joey Zhou.

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