Alexis Kirke is a Screenwriter and A.I. Coder based in the southwest of the UK. His screenwriting focuses on drama, elevated horror and grounded sci-fi. His A.I. work usually involves NLP Agents for various clients and his own company . He has developed three sci-fi pilots with producer Paul Brett (THE KING’S SPEECH, WOLF HALL), and is currently developing a US sci-fi feature with Paul. His drama pilot AN ANALYTICAL MARXIST IN MAYFAIR secured him his place on BBC Voices.
Alexis is a graduate of Metfilm School’s Screenwriting program, where his sci-fi horror feature script TRANQUILLITY achieved a near perfect scoring on the US Black List website. His drama short film MANY WORLDS won a Media Innovation Award and was presented at a specially organised BBC Media City event. His drama short BUDDHA OF SUPERPOSITION was picked up by Hughes Films and distributed to Amazon and Apple.
Alexis is a poet who was invited to perform at GLASTONBURY and edited the UK’s first online poetry magazine BRINK. He won a Media Innovation award for the documentary MUSIC, MEMORIES AND MAKING RADIO on Alzheimer’s and music, which he co-wrote and co-presented for BBC Radio Devon. Alexis previously attained a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and created the world’s first music-performing quantum A.I.
Alexis Kirke is a composer and filmmaker well-known for his interdisciplinary practice (he has been called “the Phillip K. Dick of contemporary music”). He is a member of the Plymouth University’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research in the South-West of England, and is composer-in-residence for the Plymouth Marine Institute – the UK leader in Marine research and work on sustainability, marine pollution and conservation. Alexis has completed two PhDs, one in Arts and one in Technology. He has worked as a Project Manager and a Stock Market Analyst (where he developed some of the foundation concepts of the industry textbook ‘Optimal Trading Strategies’), and has published articles on Algorithmic Composition and Performance. Alexis is a poet and critic who has written for publications such as Terrible Work, Oasis, Tremblestone (UK) and Transmog (US). He has also been invited to read at Glastonbury Festival, and was editor of the UK’s first poetry webzine ‘Brink’.
Alexis’ talk invites include BBC Research and Development and the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Media and websites Alexis’ music projects have been featured on include BBC Radio 3, 4 and World Service, CBC, Telegraph, Guardian, Daily Mail, Gramophone, Classical Music, New Scientist, Scientific American, NME, Mashable, Trendhunter, MusicTech and PSFK. His film work has been featured on BBC TV, NPR, Indiewire, Movies.com, El Pais, The Verge, Filmmaker, Stuff, The Times, Al Jazeera TV, Gizmodo, and Digital Filmmaker. However his proudest moment was a cartoon attacking his opera in the Sunday Times.
Alexis Kirke’s work is supported by Plymouth University’s Peninsula Arts and Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research.
A press profile of Alexis is available here
