Event One

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[File:Darwin Building, Royal College of Art in London, spring 2013.JPG|thumb|upright|The Royal College of Art in London, where ''Event One'' and ''Event Two'' were held in 1969 and 2019 respectively]]

'''''Event One''''' was an early digital art exhibition held at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London, England, in 1969.<ref>{{cite book| first=Catherine | last=Mason | authorlink=Catherine Mason | chapter=The Fortieth Anniversary of ''Event One'' at the Royal College of Art | url=http://www.catherinemason.co.uk/pdf/TheFortiethAnniversaryofEventOneEVA09.pdf | title=EVA London 2009: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts | publisher=BCS | location=London | date=6–8 July 2009 | editor-first1=Alan | editor-last1=Seal | editor-first2=Suzanne | editor-last2=Keene | editor-first3=Jonathan P. | editor-last3=Bowen | editor-link3=Jonathan Bowen | isbn=978-1-906124-17-5 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book| title=A Computer in the Art Room: The Origins of British Computer Arts 1950–80 | year=2008 | publisher=JJG Publishing | first=Catherine | last=Mason | isbn=978-1-899163-89-2 | pages=114–15, 117, 125, 212, 214 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book| title=White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960–1980 | year=2009 | publisher=MIT Press | editor1-first=Paul | editor1-last=Brown | editor2-first=Charlie | editor2-last=Gere | editor3-first=Nicholas | editor3-last=Lambert | editor4-first=Catherine | editor4-last=Mason | isbn=978-0262026536 | pages=76, 166–168, 173, 180–182, 186, 193, 198, 220, 351 }}</ref>

''Event One'' was organised over two days during 29–30 March 1969 in the Gulbenkian Hall at the RCA by the Computer Arts Society (CAS), that had been established the year before in 1968.<ref>{{cite web| title=Event One | publisher=Computer Arts Society | work=CAS Online Archive | url=https://computer-arts-society.com/event-one | date=1969 | accessdate=5 August 2019 }}</ref> An associated catalogue was produced.<ref>{{cite web| title=Event One | publisher=Computer Arts Society | url=https://computer-arts-society.com/uploads/event-one-1969.pdf | date=1969 | accessdate=5 August 2019 }}</ref> The exhibition was reviewed in ''Page'', the Bulletin of the Computer Arts Society.<ref>{{cite web| title=Page | journal=Bulletin of the Computer Arts Society | volume=1 | publisher=Computer Arts Society | url=https://computer-arts-society.com/uploads/event-one-1969.pdf | date=April 1969 | accessdate=5 August 2019 }}</ref> Since ''Event One'', CAS has donated its collection to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.<ref>{{cite web| title=The V&A's Computer Art Collections | publisher=Victoria and Albert Museum | url=https://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t/v-and-a-computer-art-collections/ | accessdate=5 August 2019 }}</ref>

==Event Two== '''''Event Two''''' was organised at the RCA during 12–17 July 2019 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ''Event One'', including some digitally-produced artworks by artists, who also exhibited at ''Event One''.<ref>{{cite web| title=Event Two | publisher=Royal College of Art | work=News & Events | url=https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/event-two/ | date=12–17 July 2019 | accessdate=5 August 2019 }}</ref><ref name="itnow">{{cite news| title=BCS Computer Arts Society celebrates 50 years | publisher=BCS | work=ITNOW | url=https://www.bcs.org/content-hub/computer-arts-society-celebrates-50-years/ | date=September 2019 | pages=30–31 | accessdate=20 September 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| title=Event Two | publisher=Computer Arts Society | url=https://computer-arts-society.com/event-two | date=2019 | accessdate=20 September 2019 }}</ref> '''''Event Three''''' is planned for 2069.<ref name="itnow" /><ref>{{cite web| title=Ultify | url=https://www.ultify.no | accessdate=28 November 2020 }}</ref>

==See also== * ''Cybernetic Serendipity'' exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1968

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