An Art Exhibition in Celebration of the Life of Alan Turing
23-24 March 9am-5pm
The Workstation, Creative Lounge
FREE
Free opening event. 6 - 8pm, 22 March - all welcome with drinks and chat with the artists.
2012 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing, one of the greatest minds Britain has ever produced.
This exhibition brings together a number of important artists, from digital art pioneers to emerging contemporaries, to investigate Turing's enduring influence on art and contemporary culture.
Credited with inventing the digital computer, helping to decode the German Enigma machine and founding the science of Artificial Intelligence, the world today would have been a very different place without Turing and his ideas. His work on morphogenesis (the biological processes that cause organisms to grow in a particular shapes) and the now famous Turing Test for machine intelligence have captured the imagination of artists for decades, whilst his technological developments have given them the tools to create new kinds of artworks.
Artists include: Roman Verostko, Boredom Research, Patrick Tresset, Greg Garvey, Anna Dumitriu and Alex May.
Find out more about the Alan Turing centenary celebrations at: http://www.turingcentenary.eu