Introduction
CAS held Event One at the Royal College of Art in 1969. Its archive preserves Lansdown’s account of programs for dancers and actors, including a computer-choreographed sword fight and ballet, widening the record beyond static graphics.
RESEARCH ACCOUNT
Event One: work and context
ANTI-AI ARCHIVE · Revised 2026-10-02
Work, material and process
The society records the performances’ appearance on BBC Tomorrow’s World on 26 March 1969. These materials document choreography and dissemination, not evidence that every bodily movement was controlled by a computer in real time.
Section sources: Event One
Historical significance and questions
Editorial interpretation: programs can organise movement while performance remains embodied labour. This connects computer art with choreography and instruction-based practice, offering a comparison with later motion generation without treating their mechanisms as identical.
Section sources: Event One
Sources for this account
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Continue with a comparative question
Compare the methods, forms of control or presentation contexts of this entry and Computer Arts Society.
Compare the methods, forms of control or presentation contexts of this entry and 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering.
Dates & version record
Date displayed for this node: 1969 · Historical date recorded for the source: 1969
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Original sources & further reading
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Event One
https://computer-arts-society.com/casarchive/cas/event-one.html
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Provenance, translation & verification
Archive node #242 · Exhibition and institutional context
Research materials & supplement references · 1
Sources for artistic practices and exhibitions (2 October 2026) · Online work or institutional record · 018
Date as recorded: 1969
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Cite this node
ANTI-AI ARCHIVE. Event One. Art-history node #242. https://salondesrefuses.cn/en/art-history/242
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