Henry included in "The Creative Machine" Posted: 03 November 2024
Dates: Nov 15, 2024 till February 2025
Exhibition title: "The Creative Machine"
Venue:The Taikang Art Museum, Beijing, China
Curators: William Latham, Tang Xin, Zhou Yi
Henry picture no.634 is to be exhibited in Beijing
alongside works of fellow pioneers:
Karl Sims, Harold Cohen, Aaron Cohen, Herbert W. Franke, David Em, Heinrich Heidersberger,
John Whitney, Andy Lomas, Paul Brown, Ernest Edmonds, Manfred Mohr, Frieder Nake, Vera Molnar,
Craig Reynolds, Benoit Mandelbrot, John Conway.
Appointment of additional Assistant Curator Posted: 03 November 2024
Sean O'Hanrahan, Elaine's husband, officially joins the curatorial team of Elaine
and their daughter Claire, as Assistant Curator to the D.P. Henry Archive.
Not only did Sean know Henry personally for the last 27 years of his life, but since 2005 Sean has been
an invaluable source of support to his wife Elaine in conserving
and promoting Henry's artistic legacy as a unique precursor of Digital Art.
Sean looks forward to developing his role.
Electric Dreams: Nov 2024 - June 2025 Posted: 03 November 2024
A Henry picture (no.636) from the Anne and Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection is to be included
in what has been described as Tate Modern's "most ambitious" exhibition to date, called: "Electric Dreams"
Tate Modern, Nov. 28, 2024-June 1st, 2025; curator Valentina Ravaglia.
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/electric-dreams
Elaine, together with husband Sean, son Liam and his partner Caterina Mansueto, will be attending the exhibition's
private view on Nov.26, 2024.
Digital Art: 1960s - Now Posted: 03 November 2024
October 2024:
Alongside recognised figures of digital art history, Henry features in the opening chapter (1960s-1970s) of a new digital art history publication by the V&A:
"Digital Art: 1960s-Now," (Thames & Hudson).
Douglas Dodds is the author of this chapter, which not only sports a full page Henry machine-drawing (p.17)
but which also has Dodds refer to Henry's machine-generated art as consisting of :
"surprisingly elegant and complex curves" (Dodds, p.19).
Henry is also sole entry for the year 1961,(p.169) in the book's most comprehensive digital art history time-line.
Talk to Computer Conservation Society Posted: 03 November 2024
September 24, 2024:
Hybrid Talk to the Computer Conservation Society (North-West)
On the suggestion of Professor Paul Brown, Elaine approached Bob Geatrell of the CCS who agreed to her presenting
her first hybrid talk entitled:
"Artist meets Bombsight: Manchester's 1960's Computer Art Pioneer,
Desmond Paul Henry (1921-2004)."
In attendance was a live audience of about 12
with 24 participants online via Zoom.
The response was generally very positive and encouraging.
A recording of the talk is available here: https://youtu.be/6TzXTMBVJS0