The Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition at the ICA in 1968 was one starting point for my interest in computer based art. It lead to my joining the Computer Arts Society which continued the innovation. The advent of graphical personal computers at the end of the 1970s meant I could get involved and my work has developed since then into technology based art, either using the computer because of convenience or as a programming tool. Although part of my work involves paper sculpture, it uses computers for design. My 2D work is now produced almost exclusively on the computer.

I have now moved out internationally with invites to conferences on the subject of art and mathematics from Kansas to New York and Brussels to Spain.

I will talk on how I see computers and art having blossomed in the UK, but how, like so much else we do in this country, withered somewhat from what it could have been.

John Sharp has work exhibited in the Science Museum, Strange Surfaces exhibition with some 19th century manually produced examples and you can view some of his anamorphic art at www.counton.org in the Explorer's section.