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Title: | Turing Arts: Growing Connections and Digital Mimicry | Contributor(s): | Dowd, Cate (author) | Publication Date: | 2012 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/12056 | Abstract: | In 2009 the UK government decided to honour Alan Turing as a national figure. Turing was a code-breaker during World War 2 and a mathematician. His ideas and abstractions also gave birth to digital computers and Computer Science. In 2012 Computer Scientists, Artificial Intelligence Researchers and Philosophers in the UK have been celebrating the work and ideas of Alan Turing. The Turing Arts symposium was one of the research events held in the UK this year. The initial idea for the symposium was conceived by Cate Dowd and grew from conversations with colleagues across arts and computing. Part of the inspiration was Turing's creative ideas in the late 1940s for machines of the future and ideas for 'machine intelligence'. Turing also envisaged competition between man and machine and similar ideas are played out in Science Fiction Films. Turing's 'Turing Test' also has similarities with fictional machines like the Voight Kampff machine in the film Blade Runner (based on Phil Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?). Turing's controversial ideas about 'machine consciousness' led to reflections on early forms of Automata and the idea of 'play' on machine consciousness found in Surrealism. The research opened up further links across Turing's ideas for digital mimicry and digital music and Generative Art. It also captured new ideas associated with mimicry of the human brain, embodiment, and random elements of machines and machine intelligence. The research culminated in the Turing Arts symposium held in Birmingham, UK, in July this year as part of the AISB/IACAP World Congress. Cate will present on her own research as well as giving an overview of the Turing Arts Symposium. | Publication Type: | Conference Publication | Conference Details: | Turing Arts: Growing Connections and Digital Mimicry, Sydney, Australia, 5th November, 2012 | Source of Publication: | Digital Repost (29 Oct) | Publisher: | University of Sydney | Place of Publication: | Sydney, Australia | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200102 Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies 080199 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing not elsewhere classified 190299 Film, Television and Digital Media not elsewhere classified |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 470102 Communication technology and digital media studies 460299 Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified 360599 Screen and digital media not elsewhere classified |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970108 Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences 970110 Expanding Knowledge in Technology 950204 The Media |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280115 Expanding knowledge in the information and computing sciences 130204 The media |
HERDC Category Description: | E3 Extract of Scholarly Conference Publication | Publisher/associated links: | http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/digital-repost/2012/10/turing_arts_growing_connection.html |
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