Discover how artists first engaged with computers and why their experiments remain crucial for understanding the relationship between art and technology now.

In Episode 0 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.

The beautiful cover is designed by Lonni Omarii, you can follow her work on Instagram @rgb.lon

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The first podcast, Episode 0, went live on 9th October 2025, with more episodes to be launched monthly.