In three weeks the first chapter of The Third Day will premier at QUMRA in Doha, Qatar.

At this stage in the development of the work I am thinking about the kinds of questions we ask as children, but stop asking in adulthood even though they remain unanswered. It is as if we stop asking because we know that questions of that nature are unanswerable for reasons beyond mere complexity, that the questions in themselves are flawed. I am wondering how an AGI (artificial general intelligence) might deal with those kinds of childlike questions. In the world that lurks behind The Third Day the engineer becomes despondent not only because he does not understand the world, but more importantly because he knows he is missing some critical information, such that he cannot even ask the right kinds of question to begin to understand.

“a place needs somewhere to be and that somewhere itself must a place. The implications of this are profoundly troubling” THE ENGINEER.

The work of Simon Wilkinson - known as CiRCA69 - incorporates audiovisual, installation, VR, AR, Ai, electronic music, online and performance mediums, often combining multiple approaches simultaneously to create highly immersive narrative environments which invite prolonged audience engagement.

Wilkinson’s work has been featured at Tate Modern, and regularly tours internationally with his most recently completed collection of virtual reality installations, Whilst The Rest Were Sleeping, enjoying a 20 nation world tour across six continents throughout 2016 and 2017.

He is currently in production of a new gallery based VR installation entitled The Third Day.