Film Script wins two competitions

Alexis’ short fiction film script “The Callback” has won two competitions: the Manchester Lift-off Film Festival, where it was one of 5 selected in the competition out of 300; and the London Independent Film Festival – where it won the award “Best Original Screenplay Short”. LIFF is one of the top 100 reviewed festivals on …

Alexis interviewed about future of TV & Film

Alexis has been interviewed by Digital Trends (25 million readers globally) about the future of TV & film, as well as VR and other media. The article is available here: https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/alexis-kirke-future-of-media/ “Humanity’s media habits shifted radically in the 2010s. What do the 2020s hold?”

Invited talk at International Festival of Animation in Stuttgart

Alexis has been invited to speak at the International Festival of Animation in Stuttgart about the Netflix phenomenon Bandersnatch. Choice is Not Immersion – Why “Bandersnatch” is less immersive than “Bird Box”: “Bandersnatch” was one of the Netflix highlights of recent months: the viewer was able to determine how the story of the film goes. Award-winning British …

New Articles on Medium

Alexis has published two new articles on Medium: Can the Quantum Computing Speed-up Help the Arts? and: My Quantum Computer Wrote a Podcast: Podcasts about Quantum Computing  

New Quantum Computing and Arts Podcast

Alexis hosts and produces a new podcast “My Quantum Computing Wrote a Podcast” and talks about quantum computing, AI and the entertainment business, with the occasional co-host of a quantum computer. My Quantum Computer Wrote a Podcast #1 – “Schrodinger’s Brexit“ – Quantum Computing / AI / Entertainment A podcast hosted by Dr Dr Alexis …

Sonic Journalism Examples

UK Immigration from Syria during War The above example is an orchestral music piece of sonic journalism. The deep rising string sound underneath is generated by the death toll due to the Syrian War between 2012 and 2016. The higher up-and-down violins are generated using the total number of Syrian refugees in millions over the …