IMPORTANT INFORMATION for CADE and CAS members
The BCS free one-year membership offer is being extended.
This announcement is being sent to all past and present members of the
CADE (Computers in Art and Design Education) e-lists and members of the
CAS and DASH jisclists.
Earlier this year the Computer Arts Society (CAS) and CADE agreed to
combine forces. The CAS was founded in 1968 and celebrates its 40th
anniversary this year. Its significant archives were acquired by the
Victoria and Albert Museum last year and are currently being
accessioned.
CAS exists as an international member-run organisation and is also
recognised as a Specialist Group (SG) of the British Computer
Society (BCS). The CAS exists to support and advance the use of
computers in the fine & performing arts, the applied arts & design,
entertainment & the media and in culture in general.
CAS has always had an educational remit and it is proposed that CADE
becomes the educational sub-committee of the CAS called CAS/CADE and run
a program of events including an annual conference continuing the
successful series of events run by CADE. At present we are planning the
first of this re-launched series for Easter 2010 in central London. We
intend that CAS/CADE will work closely with the BCS Education Group,
government agencies and others to promote the teaching of computer art
and design to the K-12, further and tertiary education sector.
CADE members, as members of CAS will also have the possibility of
joining
the BCS for one year free of charge. This offer will be announced in
the
near future. However it is imperative that CADE members who wish to
take
advantage of this offer join the CAS _before_ the BCS offer is
announced.
Membership of the CAS is free. To join you should:
Go to http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk
Open an account (or log into your existing one)
Join list CAS
You may also wish to join CAS' sister list DASH (Digital ArtS Histories)
As soon as the free membership extension offer is made available we will
announce this on the CAS jisclist. We expect this announcement to be
made
soon and to extend to the end of the year.
We look forward to welcoming CADE members to the CAS and to the
consolidation and development of our educational agenda.
On behalf of the CAS committee
Paul Brown
Chair
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Paul Brown - based in the UK Aug-Dec 2008
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Visiting Professor - Sussex University
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