Elaine O'Hanrahan

Elaine O’Hanrahan is the youngest daughter of British computer art pioneer Desmond Paul Henry (1921-2004) and curator of the D. P. Henry Archive. In 2005, she completed an MPhil in Contextual Studies on “Drawing Machines: the machine-generated art of Dr Desmond Paul Henry in relation to conceptual and technological developments in the UK (1960-68).” She has since been responsible for bringing her father’s extensive archive of machine-generated artworks back into the public domain, through the setting up of www.desmondhenry.com together with papers delivered at Liverpool John Moores University (2011), Goldsmiths, University of London (2014), Birkbeck, University or London (2015), and St. Mary’s University (2017) and talks at Manchester University (2013, 2017) amongst others. Thanks to Elaine and to the support and encouragement of key figures in the digital art world, Henry has been included in a range of exhibitions in recent years in Europe and the US, including a major solo retrospective in 2011 at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester. In 2018, Elaine published “The Contribution of Desmond Paul Henry (1921-2004) to Twentieth-Century Computer Art.”²

From Our Fathers | Chuck Csuri and D. P. Henry, February 2023