A collaborative work from Craig Morrison, Jobina Tinnemans, Joel Cockrill, Elizabeth Ashworth, Menna Elfyn and narrated by Steffan Rhodri..

Its a wonderful piece of art.. Check it out http://thespace.org/items/e0001gcu?t=2cd4

Intense Colour Movement

After a long hard slog, all of the films are now up on The Space.

The reluctant anchor, Craig Morrison, one of the curators of the festival, gives a very concise overview of blinc and its dedication to Alan Turing. Lots of interesting facts about this incredibly gifted man, who was unfortunately persecuted by the very nation that he served. If you don’t know anything about Alan Turing, then this would be a good place to start. Helen Booth, Jessica Lloyd Jones, Ant Dickinson, Wendy Dawson, Steve Knight, Sean Vicary and Jobina Tinnemans all feature in interviews along side the other artists featured in the works, including, Elizabeth Ashworth, Menna Elfyn, Steffan Rhodri & Joel Cockrill.

The Space is a wonderful platform for Art and Artists and if you haven’t yet visited The Space.. then get on over there and join in..

Turing’s poetic epitaph is white neon stands proudly before Conwy Castle.

The lasers pulsing Thank you in Morse Code towards the heavens.

Alan Turing Epitaph in Neon. blinc 2012

If you have any images or films please feel free to share..

Alan Turing Thank You

Please click her to see The programme of events.

A Full list of participating Artists per venue will be posted on Wednesday, but the information found on the programme page will help you plan your visit.

blinc was started by Craig and Joel. as curators in 2011, this year, its twice the size, with more venues and over 30 artists.  They have curated a variety of art forms including projections, performance, dance, poetry  and installation as well as exhibiting their own work at the festival.

Craig Morrison’s initial work with Meat Beat Manifesto and his Cyber Punk designs led to his work being on permanent display at both the Science Museum in London and the V&A. He has always been passionate about Art and Film. The Alan Turing Centenary has inspired him to collaborate on two large works this year: Intense Colour Movement , a large projection piece on Plas Mawr and Thank You,  an emotional response to Alan Turing’s Epitaph re-created in neon. Both  are being streamed on The BBC Space.

A sense of place, and the interplay of sound and light within a space have been a repeated reference in Joel Cockrill’s work across a wide variety of media and creative explorations. These core interests have been the elemental influences for film, performance, audio work and collaboration for the last 25 years.

The BBC arts site The Space will feature several of Joel’s short documentary films based on the work of other blinc artists, exploring their motivation, inspiration and relevance to the centenary of the 2012 centenary of Alan Turing’s birth.

Our featured Artists today is  Greg Byatt , a Multimedia and Relaxation Artist lives and works in North Wales.

Greg organises and runs the festival hub over the blinc weekend. He is a ken archivist and he seeks out a diverse range of digital films and projections and produces a strong backbone to the festival.

He is a key member of the blinc team and we are really grateful to have him on board.

Previous works have been seen and experienced in a variety of venues in Liverpool including

FACT and FutureSonic and CornerHouse in Manchester. Its been a hectic year working on

a Musical Theatre Show, Sir Henry at Rawlinsonʼs End and adding to the World Jazz Film

Archive as well as completing a major collaborative Wales Arts Council Project in Parc

near Bala. The Digital Showcase Cinema Experience and Exhibition Space will again

be in the transformed British Legion in Conwy and will be the festival Hub for blinc digital

2012.

An eclectic programme featuring a showcase presentation from Artists in the North West

of England and a Wales National Sound and Screen Archive Special as well as showreels

from the participating artists and digital media creators, along with other surprises should

make for an exciting weekend. GB 2012

Chris Squire’s roots lie in the performing arts, but works at the interface between participatory events, new technologies and installation.
Based in Yorkshire he is director of Impossible Arts, collaborating with artists from many disciplines to combine participatory, digital, live and visual arts in a wide range of innovative projects.
His work mixes the technological with the lyrical and aims to involve and intrigue people from many different backgrounds.
‘Lightweight’ is an elegant 4m diameter inflatable sphere that looks simple. It is also the hiding place for complex electronic, sonic and optical equipment developed to create seemingly mysterious and effortless effects.

Intuition and Ingenuity is a touring exhibition dedicated to Alan Turing.

The show, curated by Anna Dumitriu, Sue Gollifer and Nick Lambert , has toured the length and breadth of the UK.We are very lucky to exhibit the show, and it should be one of the festival highlights. My New Robot Companion by Anna Dumitriu and Alex May is always a great exhibit, enchanting both the young and older audiences. make sure you make time to see it and interact with the pieces, My Robot Companion thrilled 19,000 visitors at the V&A in London..its one not to miss!

Desmond was a British pioneer of Computer Art/Graphics who during the 1960′s constructed a series of three mechanical drawing machines from analogue bombsight computers.