'Aura' 2012, Digital moving image artwork to commemorate the Alan Turing centenary.

Commissioned by Blinc Digital arts Festival and shown as a projection onto Conwy Castle, 'Aura' explores the development of the electromechanical machine to the modern age of computer technology through the creative use of Kirlian imaging; a photographic technique that is used to capture coronal discharges. High voltage electricity applied to a variety of computer components (including a wire wound resistor, broken valve, dekatron and micro chip) produced visible electric energy fields that were photographically captured and animated. 

By stripping the notion of the 'computer' down to single components, the work attempts to peel back its layers and reveal its internal workings and life force. Capturing the interaction between electricity and technology exposes the physical energy and power of electricity as a natural phenomena controlled and utilised by man.  

An accompanying soundscape produced by Ant Dickinson, captures a variety of sound recordings of electro-mechanical and electronic devices, including a working replica of the 'Bombe' (an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine) developed by Alan Turing at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.

Read more about the project here: http://www.antdickinson.co.uk/aura/

Commissioned by Blinc Digital Arts Festival, 2012.