Henry featured as a “display highlight” at the V&A! Posted: 18 October 2018

Chance and Control: Art in the Age of Computers
Celebrating more than 50 years of computer-generated art
July to Nov. 18th. 2018.

Venue: Paintings, Room 88a The Edwin and Susan Davies Gallery and Room 90, The Julie and Robert Breckman Prints and Drawings Gallery.
https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/chance-and-control-art-in-the-age-of-computers

CAS50 EXHIBITIONS: CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF THE COMPUTER ARTS SOCIETY Posted: 18 October 2018

The Computer Arts Society was established in the UK in 1968 by George Mallen, Alan Sutcliffe and John Lansdown and pioneered the development of computer arts in the UK and worldwide.

The first exhibition: 23rd May until 13th June 2018. It will feature work by Stephen Bell, Peter Beyls, Desmond Henry, Ernest Edmonds, Sean Clark, Paul Brown, William Latham, boredomresearch, Sue Gollifer, Stephen Scrivener, Daniel Brown and Andy Lomas.
Venue: LCB Depot, Leicester, LE1 1RE

Second exhibition: EVA ’18 conference: 9th- 13th July 2018.
Venue: British Computer Society, London.

Third exhibition: Brighton Digital Festival, Sept. 19th- 23rd. 2018
Venue: The Phoenix, Brighton.

http://interactdigitalarts.uk/cas50
https://www.facebook.com/events/2084103658283526/

 

Henry in Leonardo Posted: 04 March 2018

Elaine's article "The Contribution of Desmond Paul Henry (1921-2004) to Twentieth Century Computer Art" is to be published in the Art and Technology Journal Leonardo (Volume 51, Issue 2, April 1st 2018  MIT Publication). 

An appreciation of Henry by Professor Jai Chuhan Posted: 04 March 2018

Read Professor Chuhan's appreciation of Henry's machine-generated art of the 1960s. Jai knew Henry personally and was integral in encouraging Henry's daughter Elaine, to embark upon her contextual PhD on the subject of 1960's machine-generated art.

DP Henry: Drawing with Machines, with Spontaneous Exhilaration

New Jack Tait web-site, featuring his Homage to Henry Drawing Machine Posted: 16 October 2017

In the absence of any fully functioning drawing machines of Henry’s, in 2015, Dr. Jack Tait, an avid life-long creator of analogue based drawing machines himself, completed a reverse engineering project to create a Homage To Henry Machine (the HHM) which successfully replicates curvilinear, abstract images very similar to Henry’s.

Homage to Henry machine in action.