The Imitation Game will be a major contemporary art exhibition curated by Clare Gannaway at Manchester Art Gallery, UK, March-August 2016. Inspired by Manchester's rich history of computer science, it will feature eight international contemporary artists exploring the theme of machines and the imitation of life. The exhibition will be part of the cultural programme for Manchester's role as European City of Science in 2016.

Artist Tove Kjellmark (Sweden) is making a new artwork for The Imitation Game exhibition, opening March 2016, in the form of two human-like robots which will sit in leather armchairs in the gallery and converse with each other on topics yet to be decided. They will detect and acknowledge the presence of human visitors to the gallery through movement and speech.

Running the software requires a Python 2.7 interpreter. This means it should run on all operating systems.

Running such a large simulation with a real-time constraint requires the use of the ^^SpiNNaker^^ platform. As a result, the software in its current state does not support running the simulation via the provided interface on host, but running only the simulation on host

Windows users need to install the Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 which is used when installing the numpy package.

The easiest way to install everything is to clone the Alan Project repository, then run setup.py. This will install all required dependencies automatically.

git clone https://github.com/pabogdan/AlanProject
cd AlanProject
python setup.py develop

The last step is to

nengo_spinnaker_setup

Installing the scipy package would increase the accuracy of the basal ganglia in the neural simulation. This needs to be installed separately if desired.

Installing the nengo_gui package would allow for running graphically interactive neural simulations with the possibility of viewing live output from it. There are two types of installations available for it: using pip

[sudo] pip install nengo_gui

or direct and guaranteed up-to-date installation from their Git repository

git clone https://github.com/nengo/nengo_gui
cd nengo_gui
python setup.py develop

For nengo_gui usage information visit their Github repository.