Cat Royale: Day One
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Cat Royale has been nominated for a Webby. Help us take home the People's Voice Award! Vote now: https://bit.ly/WebbysCatRoyale Cat Royale is a new work from Blast Theory that explores whether AI can make us happier. The artists have made a utopia for cats: an ideal world where every possible comfort and luxury is provided for them. For the next 12 days, three cats - Clover, Pumpkin and Ghostbuster - will spend 6 hours a day here relaxing, eating and exploring. A team of experts in cat behaviour are keeping an eye on them to ensure they are safe and sound. In the centre of the room is a robot arm connected to a computer vision system and an AI that offers games to each cat. Over time, the system attempts to measure which games the cats like in order to increase their happiness. Right outside the walls of their ‘utopia’ is our control centre. This is where our team of experts have full control over the games suggested by the artificial intelligence, where our vision mixer selects the footage in real time, and where our dedicated Cat Welfare Officer is observing the cats. This is Cat Royale. Come back tomorrow at 8pm (GMT) to find out what happens in Day Two of Cat Royale. www.blasttheory.co.uk/catroyale #CatRoyale
http://bloodyminded.org Find out more about Bloodyminded - Europe's first ever interactive live streamed feature film, shot in a single take and broadcast to cinemas and online on October 14th 2018. ________________________ Bloodyminded takes audiences on a moving and disturbing interactive journey asking us to make our own decisions about the morality of war. Shot live from an army base, Bloodyminded brings together a production team featuring some of the finest independent film industry talent working in the UK today, including Executive Producer Anna Higgs who has worked on Nick Cave biopic 20,000 Days on Earth as well as Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise and A Field in England. The story follows SJ as she breaks into an army base to bury the ashes of her great-grandfather, a conscientious objector during World War One. Inside, surrounded by soldiers and the ghosts of past wars, she finds a place where her certainty begins to falter. Bloodyminded screened live online and at cinemas across the UK and Europe. Co-commissioned by Blast Theory, 1418 NOW and Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, with support from Media Partner Pathfinder International.

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