Artists Statement
We build living installations in pixels and light.
Since 2008 we have been developing a series of interactive video installations. Darkened spaces reveal beguiling & unsettling creatures, combining elements of the human and the animal. Choreographed video clips respond in a variety of life-like ways to user motion and touch. The works are driven using open source 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, polymorphism and perversity. The pull between attraction and repulsion is an important element of our grotesque creations. Our work may inspire disgust but laughter is never far behind. By creating tense experiences we ask users to question the nature of our creatures and what they have to say about human evolution. Interaction enables us to heighten an illusion of life, and create rich user driven narratives.
Biography
Nicola Schauerman graduated with an MA from the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, Middlesex University in 2006. She is the founding member of the art group Genetic Moo, who have presented work at numerous British venues including the Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, Exploding Cinema and Area10 and at international film festivals in Venice, Munich and New York.
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.
Their work has been exhibited extensively including the De La Warr Pavilion (2010); Watermans (2010) The Wellcome Collection (2011) and Glastonbury (2011). One of the works, Starfish, received a John Lansdown Award for Interactive Digital Art at Eurographics (2007) and was nominated for an Erotic Award (2012).
CV
Residencies and Awards
- 2012 - Erotica 2012 - Best Artist finalist
- 2011 - Membership of The London Group
- 2010 - Artist in Residence (ongoing), Exploding Cinema, London
- 2009 - The London Group Open - newcomer prize winner
- 2009 - Artist in Residence, AA2A scheme at Camberwell College of Arts
- 2007 - The John Lansdown Award, 2nd prize, Eurographics 2007
Selected Exhibitions
- 2013
up-and-coming Arcadecardiff, Cardiff
up-and-coming The London Group Open, the Cello Factory, London
Skinwall + The Blushing, The London Group Centenary, Pitzhanger Manor
The Phylogenator + Kinect Installations, GEEK 2013, Margate
- 2012
It's Alive, Starfish + Cockatoo: Symbiotic, The Cube Gallery, Leicester
Mother: Papay Gyro Nights programme, Belgrade Art Fair, Serbia
Animacules: WWW: World Wild Web, Furtherfield Gallery, London
Mutoscope: Dickensian Hauntings, Shoreditch Town Hall, London
Animacules: Summer Sundae, Leicester
Mother: The Seasons, Papay Gyro Nights, BergenKjott, Norway
Mother: The Seasons, Papay Gyro Nights, 700IS, Egilsstadir, Iceland
Nautilus: Papay Gyro Nights, Papa Westray, Orkney
- 2011
Mutoscope: London Group Open, the Cello Factory, London
The Fly: DeptfordX, London
Animacules + Growthlines: Papey Listskjul, Papa Westray
Animacules + Shangri-La Virus: Shangri-La, Glastonbury
Mutoscope: You are not in control, Netil House, London
Animacules:Microbes and Me at The Wellcome Collection
Mother: Papay Gyro Nights 2011, Papa Westray, Orkney
- 2010
Sea Angel: Cryptmas, St Pancras Church
It's Alive: Curiouser & curiouser, Old Vic Tunnels
Spring-heeled Jack: Peckham Open, Peckham Space
Mutoscope: Unleashed Devices, Watermans
Animacules: Secret Subterranea, Shoreditch Town Hall, London
It's Alive!: Is It Over, Dalston bunker show
Growth Line: I Believe..., De La Warr Pavilion
- 2009
Mother: The London Group Open, The Menier Gallery, London
Mother: EMBED, The Camberwell Space, London
Mother: Transition, The Bargehouse, South Bank, London
Animacules: Collision 09, Bussey Building, London
- 2008
The Glob: FEEDBACK, House Gallery, London
Animacules: Quantifying Play Jago Gallery, London
Sea Squirts: Collision 08, Area 10 Project Space, London
Starfish: () RE | BOOT; Area 10 Project Space, London
Starfish + Urchin: Electric Blue The Bargehouse, London
Commissions
- 2011
Still Life Dreaming (video for stage projection), Spare Tyre Theatre Company, Edinburgh Festival co-produced with the Wellcome Trust to celebrate their 75th Anniversary
Once Upon A Time (digital storytelling package), Spare Tyre Theatre Company
Presentations
- 2011/12
Computer Art Society, Leicester
Camberwell College of Arts
Thursday Club, Goldsmiths
Dorkbot, Cardiff
Reviews / Articles / Radio
- 2012 - Videoholograma: una hibridacion del lenguaje visual contemporaneo, Francesca Mereu, Editorial Academica Espanola
- 2011 - Substitutive bodies and constructed actors: a practice-based investigation of animation as performance, Birgitta Hosea, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
- 2011 - Exploding Cinema, BBC radio 4
- 2010 - Furtherfield, Resonance Radio
- 2010 - TIME & SPACE, publication celebrating 10 years of AA2A
- 2010 - East Magazine Blog
- 2008 - Issue 4, Volume 26, Computer Graphics Forum
