Programme of Events

Maths, Apples & Alan Turing with Al & Al in discussion with Prof Brian Greene

On Friday 13^th July, the Lighthouse Cinema is screening the Irish Premier of The Creator which journeys into the surreal dream world of the visionary scientist Alan Turing, the father of the computer age and seed of Thinking Machines. Through Turing’s dream diaries, the Thinking Machines from the future embark on a quest to discover their origins and destiny in the universe. During Jungian therapy with Doctor Greenbaum, Turing discovers the secrets of his unconscious mind and what drives him to build a thinking machine. With the reality of his arrest and conviction making him face the repression of his love, Turing finds himself preparing his symbolic suicide by poisoning a red apple. Join Al and Al with Professor Brian Greene for post screening debate and audience Q&A.

Since 2001 AL Holmes and AL Taylor have created an award winning body of films, exhibiting internationally in galleries, site specific installations, film festivals, television and concert halls. In 2008 the duo’s critically acclaimed solo exhibition ‘Eternal Youth’ at FACT for the European Capital of Culture celebrations toured to the National Art Museum of China for the Olympic Games. In 2009 they were awarded the Liverpool Art Prize. In 2010 they collaborated with Philip Glass, Brian Greene and David Hwang on ‘Icarus at the Edge of Time’.

In 2011 they created ‘Superstitious Robots’ a trilogy of shorts for Channel 4 television. In 2012 they premiered ‘The Creator’, a new sci-fi short commissioned to celebrate Alan Turing’s centenary at the Museum of Moving Image as part of the World Science Festival in New York.

Link for info: http://www.ucdimaginescience.ie/programme/

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