At Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2014 (“Thinking Music”) Alexis will be premiering a piece “Remember a Day” for Cello, Soprano and Electronics, inspired by using music ear-worms with lyrics to help people with dementia remember key facts, such as medication lists. It will be a collaboration with a group of volunteers with dementia, and …
Alexis has been invited to give a Whitehead Lecture at Goldsmiths College, University of London on October 16th 2013: Click here to see poster Additionally he has been invited onto the BBC’s Smallworld project / experiment. “The purpose of the project was to bring together a range of forward thinkers from across the industry to …
Open Outcry and Sound-Wave have both been nominated for Media Innovation Awards http://www.mediainnovationawards.com/News/2013-Nominations-Announced.aspx
[Capital Magazine is Germany’s main business magazine] Dances Fights Runs away with Wolves The former Wall Street Analyst, Alexis Kirke, wants to save Hollywood. With films the plot of which changes according to the mood of the spectators. Mr Kirke, despite the global crisis, billions are still earned in Hollywood. Why …
BBC Research and Development have blogged about the showing of ‘many worlds’ at Media City UK and the panel discussion involving Alexis. Click here to read it.
The invited showing of ‘many worlds’ at the BBC at MediaCity UK is this week on Thursday. It will include 50 BBC employees and a small number of external invites, and be followed by a panel on narrative and interactivity featuring Alexis and BBC staff from Research and Development, the Writer’s Room and the Radiophonic …
A documentary was made about the performance of Cloud Chamber in San Francisco in June 2013 at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. The video was produced by Patrick Haynes, Adam Behrmann and Chris Whitmore, and features commentaries from “modern day Einsteins”, such as Hitoshi Murayama, Professor of Physics at Berkeley and …
Alexis has been invited by Stanford University to perform his piece Cloud Chamber at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Stanford Linear Accelerator are hosting the main international conference on fundamental particle interactions at high energy, and Alexis will be performing at the Conference banquet on the Friday night. …
Alexis will be presenting with Greg B. Davies at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in Mayfair, London at 7:30pm on Thurs 13th June. Their talks will be about the financial reality opera ‘Open Outcry’. The presentation will be at the 14-10 Club. The club name comes from the 14 Nobel Prizes won by scientists …
‘many worlds’ is a film written and directed by Alexis. “It sounds a little Big Brother-esque, but could this be the future of filmmaking?” Movies.com “it is certainly an auspicious way for Kirke to make his filmmaking debut.” Filmmaker Magazine “a 15 minute short that innovates the realm of interactive cinema like never before” Indiewire “If the entertainment …