Editorial

Welcome to ‘stock’ no. 7, the second last for 2008. We received a great deal positive feedback for our last edition, increasing both readership and membership. For this edition we publish views on several topical themes - Nancy Mauro-Flude writes about the artist/machine relationship and the use of computer code in art and Yvette Watt tackles the issue of artist as activist. Included, too, is a review of the work of Ben De Nardi by Craig Johnson, a curatorial essay of the exhibition Geo Nature by Lucy Hawthorne and Jack Robins has submitted edited video transcripts of two recent artists’ forums held at CAST in relation to the exhibitions Fold and Redrawing.

Lucy Hawthorne and Jack Robins have joined the ‘stock’ as editors. Their contributions are most appreciated.