Alan Turing and John Foxx feature at the London Kinetica Art Fair

A couple of weeks back I went to the Kinetica Art Fair held at P3 in London. A couple of things caught my eye.

The Aikon Project is trying to get computers to imitate the strokes that a human artist might make when creating a portrait. To that end they have some 'sketches' by machines of computer heroes Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing.

Another piece, "No numbers", examined our notions of digital piracy. A machine is silently playing a track by John Foxx. Sample by sample, the numbers that make up the digital recording are displayed. Visitors are encouraged to write the numbers they see down in a book. In this way, at the end of the four weeks it takes to work through the track at that speed, you should have the numerical recipe for a perfect digital copy.

Since it was an exhibition of moving art, it seemed appropriate to make moving pictures of it. Here is a two minute clip-reel I made of some of the exhibits I enjoyed.