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Episode 0: Introduction to Artist and Computer with Catherine Mason
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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.
Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii.
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Episode 2: Ahnjili Zhuparris and Computer
21:43|In this episode of Artist and Computer, host Bea Taylor Searle speaks with Ahnjili Zhuparris, an AI engineer, artist, and science communicator whose work explores the intersections of data, AI, and surveillance technologies. Through her projects, Ahnjili pushes boundaries and provokes discussion around topics like predictive policing, voice and identity, digital surveillance, and Afrofuturism.Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii.Music by Andres Martinez.
Episode 1: Maya Man and Computer
27:34|In this episode of Artist and Computer, host Bea Taylor Searle speaks with artist Maya Man, whose work explores how identity, femininity, and authenticity are performed and perceived online. Through her generative websites, browser extensions, and installations, Maya examines what it means to be seen, to perform, and to “be real” in the algorithmic spaces that shape our lives.