Artists Statement

Since 2006 we have been developing a series of interactive video projections. In darkened spaces beguiling & unsettling creatures, combine elements of the human and the animal. Choreographed video clips respond in a variety of life-like ways to audience motion and touch. The works are driven using Open Source and Flash Software and webcams and can be easily adapted to different locations. The creatures vary in size from the tiny Animacules to the all encompassing Mother.

Thematically we’re interested in mutation and modification, polymorphous perversity and the grotesque. If people are disgusted by what they see, then that is good. Our central pursuit is the illusion of life.

Biography

Tim Pickup has worked in multi-media art and programming for over 10 years. He has produced short films, games and toys for the internet, electronic music and radio programmes. He received an MA in Digital Arts from Camberwell College of Arts in 2009.

Since 2006, Schauerman and Pickup have worked on a series of interactive video installations which have been presented at a number of UK venues, including the De La Warr Pavilion. One of the works, Becoming Starfish, received a John Lansdown Award for Interactive Digital Art at Eurographics 2007. We live in Peckham.

CV

Awards

• 2010 - Resident Artists at Exploding Cinema, London
• 2009 - London Group Open - prize winner
• 2009 - Resident Artist at Camberwell College of Art (AA2A scheme)
• 2007 - 2nd prize, Eurographics - John Lansdown Award for Interactive Digital Art for Becoming Starfish

Selected Exhibitions, Performances and Screenings

• Animacules (video installation), Royal Putney Hospital, Summer Show
• Growth Line (video installation), Sensorium, Joy Of Sound, Vauxhall
• It's Alive (video installation), "Is It Over", Dalston bunker show
• Growth Line (video installation), "I Believe...", De La Warr Pavilion, Red Velvet Curtain Cult

• Super Squirt (video installation), Spinning Tongues @ Vibe Bar, Rotoreliefs
• Mother - The Seasons (video installation), London Group Open, Menier Gallery - prize winner
• Mother (video installation), EMBED, The Camberwell Space, Camberwell College of Arts
• Mother (video installation), Transition, the Bargehouse, South Bank.
• Starfish (print), WAVE Blurring Boundaries, University of Alberta, Canada

• The Glob (print) 2008, FEEDBACK, House Gallery, London
• Animacules (interactive video installation), Jago Gallery, London
• Sea Squirts (interactive video installation), Collision 08, Area 10 Project Space, London.
• Starfish (interactive video installation), () RE | BOOT; Area 10 Project Space, London.
• Starfish and Urchin (interactive video installation), The Bargehouse, South Bank.
• Starfish and Sea Squirts (interactive video installation), Seven Sisters Gallery, London.

• Becoming Starfish (interactive video installation), A-MUSE, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, London
• Feral Beasts (film), NODE London, Area 10 + Exploding Cinema, London

• AHAB (film) , IFCT, New York + Munich Film Festival + Venice Short Film Festival.+ Candid Arts, London

• Powerful Sexual Moments (Prints and contraptions), The Foundry, London

• Diptych (performance) - 2003, Area10, London
• The Barney and Fanny Show (weekly radio show), Resonance FM, London
• Audio adventures in science, pseudo-science and nonsense (weekly radio show), Resonance FM, London

• Death of Genetic Moo (radio show), Resonance FM, London
• Who’s the Boss? (film), The Whitechapel Gallery, London
• Karaoke Jam (performance), Meddle, 5 Years Gallery London
• 3×3 and Goldfinger (films), the Starr auditorium, Tate Modern, London
• Goldfinger (film), Volcano Festival, London
• 3×3, Initiation and Where’s Judy? (films), Exploding Cinema, London
• An Evening with Genetic Moo (film and performance), 291 Gallery, London

Collections

• Performing Family, by Nicola Schauerman held by the Arts Council of England; The British Council; SCRîN - Welsh Film Council; British Artists’ Film & Video Study Collection and C4.

Commissions

• Dangerous Games (film) performed by The HotPots and commissioned by Spare Tyre Theatre Company, 2007
• Willow - Sirus - Wave (film) - commissioned by Anthony Howell for Tango Art, Chisenhale Dance Space, London, 2002
• Performing Family (film) Channel 4 film commission for Midnight Underground, televised 1997. Co-funded by the Arts Council of England and the Arts Council of Wales
• Doing in its Own Right (video compilation of international performance art including Beuys, Gilbert & George, Orlan, Stelarc, Schneeman and Station House Opera), commissioned by The Serpentine Gallery, included in their Summer programme, 1997

Reviews / Articles

• East Magazine Blog, March 2010
• Issue 4, Volume 26, Computer Graphics Forum (2007)
• March 2004 - Guardian Guide Preview of Powerful Sexual Moments

Presentations

• 2008/9 - three Artist in Residence presentions at Camberwell College of Arts: Imagined Future Evolutions; my artistic practice and the making of Mother
• 2007 - http gallery, DIWO conference - presentation on Imagined Future Evolutions
• 2006 - Lansdown Symposium - The State of Interactive Art - presentation on Becoming Starfish

Moo Film

Genetic Moo started out as an DIY film performance group, which ran from 2000 - 2005. We still occasionally make films but have changed the name to Moo Film to avoid confusion. A collection of the early films can be found at Moo Film. Members include:

• Tim Pickup
• Nicola Schauerman
• Fanny Cox
• Jean Hogg
• Barney Netherwood
• Theo Sykes
• Roland Watson
• Ricky Edwards
• Lidkha