Earlier in the year I posted about my hope to bring the Alan Turing inspired exhibition "Intuition and Ingenuity" to Leicester. Well, I'm very happy to say that thanks to the support of Phoenix and The Computer Arts Society it will be here in the city for the coming month.

The private view starts downstairs at Phoenix today (Monday) from 6:30pm. All are welcome to attend. Artwork will be on display in the Cube, the Cafe Bar and on Screen 3.

The exhibition runs until 9th November. I will be documenting it here. There will be a "Meet the Robots" day on 3rd November where two art robots will also be on show at Phoenix. This will hopefully be accompanied by talks. I'll confirm as soon as I know the schedule.

There are quite a few other digital arts events coming up in Leicester over the coming months:

• On the 16th/17th November there is the Full Dome (360 degree) Film Festival at the National Space Centre. This event is also here with Computer Arts Society support.
• There will be a Digital Arts Masterclass at Phoenix on 19th November with some amazing speakers lined up. A full announcement will follow soon.
• The 19th November is also the start of my joint exhibition with Genetic Moo at the Phoenix. This is the final piece of work for my PhD and is titled "Symbiotic".
• On the 24th November at Phoenix there will be a Creative Technology Live event in the style of the Max/MSP one in January.

Also, I was recently asked to write something for the Leicester Mercury about digital arts in Leicester. The article will be appearing in the Culture Guide that will come with the paper on Tuesday. There should also be free copies around various venues in Leicester. The text of the article can be found here.

I'm doing my best to maintain a guide to all digital arts activity in Leicester here on my blog. Let me know if you are organising anything else digital arts related that I've missed. Any events that get entered here will also form part of the larger Leicester Events Guide.

I went to see the great exhibition of punk art and design that's on at the Hayward Gallery on the South Bank in London at the moment. Entitled Some Day All The Adults Will Die, it brings together work by better know punk artists, such as Jamie Reid and Gee Vaucher, as well as numerous anonymous artists. The work on display includes many classic stencilled and cut-up designs, Xeroxed fanzines, 7" single covers and cassette cases.

For me, the highlight of the show was a large collection of Crass stencils that were arranged together as a single image. The stencils, covered in layers of paint from use, were used around London by members of Crass the late 1970s and early 1980s.

In the evening I also went to the Raindance Film Festival in Piccadilly and saw a showing of At Night I Fly, a film about New Folsom prison by Michel Wenzer. It was a very powerful film. It was preceeded by a performance of America and How! by Penny Rimbaud.

This was followed by Gee Vaucher's new film Angel. The 40 minute moving image of the face of a young girl is surprisingly engaging and thought provoking.

The exhibition at the Hayward runs until 4th November. You can find out more about At Night I Fly on the film's website and I'm sure future showings of Angel will be advertised on the Exitstencil Press website. My photographs from the exhibition can be found on my Flickr page, with a set also devoted to the Crass stencils.

I went to the opening of Stella Karageorgi's "Re-enlivening the Archaic" exhibition at the Great Central Gallery in Leicester today. The exhibition is the final part of Stella's PhD research at DMU and featured work inspired by ancient art and imagery. I particularly liked the ritualistic circle installation with music by Andrew Hill. The exhibition can be visited over the coming week (5th until 12th October) by appointment only by calling Stella on 07415 500747. Pictures of the exhibition can be found on my Flickr page.

Earlier in the year I was fortunate enough to visit the Intuition and Ingenuity exhibition in Sheffield as part of the LoveBytes. Part of the Alan Turing Cenentary, the exhibition featured work by artists inspired by Alan Turing's life and work. My report on that exhibition and the pictures I took can be found here.

Well, I'm excited to say that the exhibition will be coming to Phoenix in Leicester next month. A selection of slightly different work will be on display in both the Phoenix Cube and Cafe and there will be both an opening event and an evening of talks later in the month.

This is a real coup for Leicester. Some of the work on display can genuinely be seen as seminal in the field of digital arts. The event is co-sponsored the BCS Computer Arts Society and represents part of an ongoing relationship between CAS and Phoenix.

The show runs at Phoenix from 8th October to 9th November. There will be an opening event on the evening of the 8th October and an evening of talks on the 1st November.

Image: Shaping Form by Ernest Edmonds.

The latest variation of my Memory Mirror artwork, entitled The Interactive Welcome and produced in collaboration with Geoff Broadway, has just been installed in Penn Fields School in Wolverhampton.

The new piece extends the Memory Mirror idea to work across three screens located in different parts of the school. In addition to switching between "live" and "memory" modes, each screen now has a "remote" mode where movement from the two remote cameras is streamed to the local screen.

I'll be writing about it more soon, for now you can see pictures here. I will also be exhibiting the next iteration of the piece at the Symbiotic exhibition at Phoenix in November 2012.

A new artwork by Martin Rieser and Andrew Hugill has just opened in the Cube Gallery at Phoenix. Secret Garden is described as "a contemporary retelling of the Garden of Eden story through a 'digital opera' - featuring Adam and Eve as computer-generated avatars and the Secret Garden as an idyllic three-dimensional 'augmented-reality' world." It is on show at Phoenix until 1st October 2012. See my Flickr page for a few pictures.

After a year being based at Fabrika in Leicester, the Interact Gallery is on the move. The people behind the Fabrika space have decided to relocate to a new premises on Belgrave Gate and will no longer have the space to host a dedicated digital gallery.

While this is a little sad, it's not a disaster. Interact will continue as a curatorial organisation, and the new Fabrika (name tbc) will now just be one of many venues in Leicester that we will use for live events and exhibitions.

This news of the move has led us to change a few of our plans for the autumn but, as you find out shortly, Interact will still be helping to bring a great set of interactive and digital arts events and exhibitions to Leicester for the final quarter of 2012.

for the second year in a row I took a "pop up" version of the Interact Gallery to Leicester's Summer Sundae this weekend. The main work on show was an interactive piece by Genetic Moo in which users got to "swim" with weird and wonderful creatures.

The piece was very well received by the festival audience, with many hundreds of people passing through the tent over the weekend. The instant interactivity and ambiguous use of human body parts to make up the creatures made it a perfect festival piece.

I will be working with Genetic Moo on an exhibition in October in which we will be creating interacting artworks at the Interact Gallery in Humberstone Gate. More about this nearer the time. For now you can look at pictures of the Summer Sundae exhibition on Flickr at http://flic.kr/s/aHsjBvGP6S and a short video on YouTube at http://youtu.be/2ZHYLGjVaoQ.

Thanks to those who played, contributed and came to the Interact event at Fabrika last night. The event was part of the annual Leicester Fringe Thursday, which raises money for local charity LOROS. We don't know who much was raised yet but I think the whole Fringe Festival did pretty well this year. See my pictures from our event here, as well as a video of Muted Fnord playing here.

I've just finished helping Martin Rieser install his Exodus digital artworks at Phoenix Square. The exhibition features an Empedia audio trail from New Walk museum to Phoenix Square, an interactive wall of QR codes and a video installation at Phoenix itself. The project builds on work by Ashok Mistry that is currently on show at New Walk museum and explores the mass migration of Asian people from Uganda to the UK in 1972.

A couple of Cuttlefish technologies are being used in the project:

Firstly, Empedia - our locative media platform - is being used to run the audio trail. iPhone users can download the Empedia app from the App Store and use it to explore eleven audio pieces edited by Martin Rieser. Non-iPhone users can scan the QR codes on the route and listen to the audio that way. If you don't have a smartphone then you can still browse the trail on the Empedia website.

Secondly, the Interact Controller - a tone based installation controller for iPhone and Android - is being used to allow people to interact with the video installation in the Phoenix Cafe. This is a new piece of technology that was previously used in the Track Down project. I'll be writing more about it soon (once Apple approve the app in their store!).

The exhibition runs at Phoenix until the end of September, so there is plenty of time to see it.