Intuition And Ingenuity - Artists' Talk February 21, 2012

INTUITION AND INGENUITY - ARTISTS' TALK
Date: Tuesday 21 February 2012
Time: 6.30pm doors and bar, 7pm talk
Price: Free
Venue: Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton BN1 4AJ

Complementing the Intuition and Ingenuity exhibition are talks led by artists boredomresearch and Alex May, and artists/co-curator of the exhibition Anna Dumitriu. They will present work from this fascinating exhibition inspired by Alan Turing’s life’s work.

Artists boredomresearch have a fascination with the diversity that appears in nature. Using the same computational processes scientists use to gain insight into the mechanisms by which diversity arises in biology, boredomresearch are interested in using similar techniques to create fictions of nature. In their talk, they will be speaking about their work Fragments of Lost Flight, a device which creates wing fragments generated by computational processes inspired by descriptions of Turing’s never made Turing Machine.

Alex May works with light emitting technologies, computer programming, math, power tools, and physical objects as a canvas to create hybrid collisions of images and unexpected contexts. He will discuss My Robot Companion a humanoid robot (made in collaboration with Anna Dumitriu, Dr Michael L Walters and Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn in the Adaptive Systems Group at the University of Hertfordshire), which investigates our relationship to robots and the idea of the uncanny valley. The piece strongly links to the famous ‘Turing Test’ for machine intelligence in an embodied sense.

Anna Dumitriu Co- curator of this landmark touring exhibition (produced in collaboration with Sue Gollifer and Nick Lambert) to celebrate the centenary of Alan Turing’s birth describes the process of curating the exhibition, the ideas which inspired it and the background of the other works in the show.
This an official Alan Turing Centenary event.

http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/programme/intuition-and-ingenuity-artists-talk