Catherine Mason is an independent art historian and writer who has been focused on recovering the history of computer and digital art since 2002.

Her latest book Creative Simulations: George Mallen and the Early Computer Arts Society (Springer: 2024), presents new research on the origins of digital and generative art in the UK through the activities of George Mallen, a pioneer of cybernetic systems and cultural applications since 1962, and the Computer Arts Society that he co-founded in 1968. She is also the author of A Computer in the Art Room: The Origins of British Computer Arts 1950-80 (JJG: 2008 & eBook 2021) and the co-edited White Heat, Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960-1980 (MIT/Leonardo imprint: 2009). She is on the board of the Computer Arts Society.