“Codifying History: the CAT Project Examines the International Trajectory of Computer Art 1975-2000” presented by Beddard and Dodds
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Session Title:
- Codifying History (Archive/Preservation I)
Presentation Title:
- Codifying History: the CAT Project Examines the International Trajectory of Computer Art 1975-2000
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Abstract:
The Victoria and Albert Museum is the UK’s national museum of art and design. In recent years the V&A has received two major collections of computer-generated art and design, one from the Computer Arts Society, London, and the other from Patric Prince, an American art historian and collector. Together with more recent acquisitions, the museum now holds the UK’s national collection of this type of material. Our holdings continue to grow and now include some 500 art works, consisting predominantly of two dimensional works on paper. Alongside the art collection, the V&A also holds the archives of both the major donors. Patric Prince’s archive contains her ongoing correspondence with artists, details of the many exhibitions she organized for SIGGRAPH and the Los Angeles New Art Foundation, exhibition cards and press for most major computer-related art exhibitions and conferences from the 1980s onwards, as well as a substantial library of important books and texts. The archive also includes a selection of audio-visual material and computer files containing artists’ interviews and show-reels.
