The Kitty AI
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, LeicesterIt is year 2039. An artificial intelligence with the affective capacities of a kitten becomes the first non-human governor. She leads a politician-free zone with a network of Artificial Intelligences. She lives in mobile devices of the citizens and can love up to 3 Million people. Excerpt from “The Kitty AI”: “I was only 8 […]
#Love Apparatus
Highcross Shopping Centre 5 Shires Lane, LeicesterLocated at the Eastgate Entrance, Highcross Shopping Centre @apparatus_love Can apparatus love? We don’t know for sure, but surely they can say things about love! “#LoveApparatus” (@apparatus_love) is an art installation created for the ART-AI FESTIVAL, taking place Leicester between 30 April and 13 May 2018. #LoveApparatus delivers generative love text aphorisms that will be projected […]
War Games
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, LeicesterDir: John Badham USA 1983, 1h 24mins In this 80’s classic a young computer whiz kid accidentally finds a back-door into a top-secret super-computer, which has complete control over the U.S.A’s nuclear arsenal. It challenges him to a game between America and Russia and he innocently plays along - unknowingly starting the countdown to World War […]
Robot Maze
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, LeicesterIn this free family workshop we’ll be building miniature mazes that can be explored by scurrying, wriggly robots called Hex Bugs to discover the basics of robot behaviour. These micro insects can use their self-righting mechanisms to move between obstacles, and even flip over! You can design and make your maze, adding bridges and tunnels, and […]
Ghost in the Shell
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, LeicesterDir: Mamoru Oshii Japan/UK 1995, 1hr 22mins In the not too distant future, Tokyo's Section Nine security force hunts for a hacker known only as the Puppet Master. Leading the investigation is cyborg agent Major Motoko Kusanagi, far more powerful than her human appearance would suggest. And yet as the Puppet Master leaves a trail […]