The Alan01 installation engages interactive audience in dialogue with a fictional Alan, as if Turing's consciousness had been coded into a machine at the time of his death. The interactor can "talk" to Alan01 by a system of symbols, which we imagine to have been relevant to Alan Turing's life. The symbol combinations are signalled visibly via light to a media retrieval system. Alan01 deciphers the symbols by a collage of animations projected on the busts of Alan (Hannu Kivioja), screened videos and audio feedback including speech synthesis.

AlanOnline, is the non-material counterpart of the Alan01 installation. The online version offers a second interface and another aspect to the media content that is shared with the physical installation. The online version also explores the different characteristics of physical media installations and non-material media art.

http://mlab.taik.fi/alanonline/index.html