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Aims
The Computer Arts Society (CAS) promotes the creative uses of computers in the arts and culture generally. It is a community of interest for all involved in doing, managing, interpreting and understanding information technology's cultural potential.

Events
Monthly meetings are held in London. See Programme for details.

Membership & Fees
Membership is open to all who are interested in the aims and activities of the group. For members in the UK there is an optional annual membership fee of £10, for which a printed copy of each issue of PAGE is sent.

British Computer Society (BCS)
The CAS is a Specialist Group of the BCS. Each member of the CAS who is not already a member of the BCS automatically becomes an SG Affiliate member of the BCS.

PAGE - ISSUE 63 available now
PAGE appears quarterly and can be downloaded here.

Archiving computer arts
The original CAS was active from 1968 until the mid 1980s. There are significant archives of material from this era, mainly stored in homes and offices of people then active in the group. The CAS is working closely with CACHe, a project in the Department of History of Art, Film and Visual media at Birkbeck, University of London, which is documenting UK computer arts in the years to 1980. The collection, identification, collation and handing over of material to the CACHe team will continue in 2004 & beyond.

This leads to a wider interest in the archiving, study and presentation of computer arts from earlier years.

Present & future computer arts
With so many novel and exciting developments in the creative uses of computers in the arts the society will continue its original aims of bringing together those active in this area.

Collaboration
The society plans to hold joint events with other BCS Specialist Groups and other professional groups and associations.

Education
The CAS plans to have an educational role in making students more aware of early work in computer arts and in helping artists to use computers creatively.