A vibrant, interactive playspace We invite visitors of all ages to explore a joyful, ever-changing digital environment inspired by the magic of early computer graphics. MAGIC PLACE is a family-friendly exhibition that celebrates creative exploration and multi-sensory play. Rendered in a cheerful, abstract style using a nostalgic 8-bit colour palette, MAGIC PLACE draws on the …
The essay below was written by Genetic Moo and Perplexity AI, a chatbot which describes itself as a “free online service that uses artificial intelligence to provide accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question”. Perplexity uses the ChatGPT 3.5 model. The 300-word prompt is included below. Genetic Moo is an interactive art group. They …
Microworld exhibitions are immersive rooms full of interactive art, dynamic and ever-changing. Sensors create a fully responsive and intuitive environment inviting you to engage with digital creature. To learn more about Microworld visit our dedicated website: microworld.art A short video from Microworld at The Word, National Centre for the Written Word, Market Place, South Shields. …
Genetic Moo is a collaboration between creative coding couple Nicola Schauerman and Tim Pickup. We create large-scale interactive installations for museums and galleries. Our art encourages experimentation and play and is inspired by popular science, particularly ecology, artificial life and evolution. Since 2013, we have been working on Microworld, an ambitious digital ecosystem project. Microworld …
The third Schauerman Digital Art Prize goes to Jonathan Armour for his remarkable 3D video animation Sleeve Shock.
A short reflection on live broadcasting our creative process during confinement and the discoveries we made.
A back of the envelope calculation for the amount of energy used by one of our Microworld exhibitions.
Exploring interconnectedness as a way of making art and thinking about the world
Making Microworld covid-secure.
// Essay, Aug 2021 // A detailed report from a creative coding workshop in Sheffield where we played Microworld Games.
// Essay, May 2021 // A deep dive into an unexpected occurrence.
We have been awarded Arts Council of England funding to develop new covid-secure pieces for our Microworld project.
//26 Oct// Live-streaming from our digital ecosystem on Mon 26 Oct 21-22:15 BST / 16–17:15 EST
//14 Oct – 14 Nov 2020// We’re presenting our short film Electric Worms at The London Group Annual Exhibition.
//30 Aug-7 Sept 2020// Last week, we set up camp in SparkleVerse at Burning Man, which this year was online.
// 9 Aug 2020 // One of the things we strive for in our weekly digital ecosystem experiments is a visual cascade where something triggers something that triggers something that triggers …
// 25 Jul 2020 // We’re bringing our Microworld@HOME to this remarkable, collaboratively organised, alternative art education community event.
// Jun 2020 // We joined Carla Rapoport, Lumen Art Projects; Punch Maugham, Found Gallery, Brecon Wales and Heidi Leitzke, Eckert Gallery to discuss Microworld Millersville and Microworld Brecon
// July 2020 // We’ve joined forces with Lumen Art Projects to launch www.microworld.art
// Lockdown Mar 2020 // We’ve converted our living room into a Microworld.
// Mar 2020 // How to send data from Android Tablet to Processing Sketch across Wifi using Processing for Android.
// Essay, Mar 2020 // A superorganism in nature is a big organism made up of smaller organisms. For example a Coral Reef. Superorganism art is a big piece of art made up of smaller pieces of art. With readily available and easy to use digital tools, Superorganism art dramatically expresses the powers of collaboration, …
// Essay, Feb 2020 // A hypothetical back-story A long time ago humans lost interest in having cognitive faculty and considered alternative states of being.
// Jan-Mar 2020 // Our first Microworld in America is a 4 screen show at the Eckert Art Gallery, Millersville University.
// Dec 2019 // The 2019 Schauerman Digital Art Prize goes to Chirag Jindal for his stunning work ‘No 12 The Uncanny’ which we found to be both artistically stunning and technologically exciting.
// Oct 2019 // Over 3000 visitors to this 10-day festival celebrating creative uses of computers and technology.
// 18-27 Oct // We opened the doors of The Margate School over the half term week to a huge variety of local creatives and makers enabling them to show their stuff and engage with the public. The festival formed the digital strand of Margate NOW, running in parallel with the Turner Prize.
// Oct-Jan 2020 // Our latest Microworld is taking place in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and will be part of the exciting Tanween Festival.
// Sept-Oct 2019 // We’ve had a wonderfully gruesome time with East Kent Mencap coding video games in the Scratch language.
Turner Prize Winners We’re excited to announce that Gretchen Andrew, Internet Imperialist and Search Engine Artist, will be exhibiting in NOW digital. In addition, we are supporting her digital art performance Turner Prize
// July 2019 // Everyone had great fun on this course and we all learnt a lot together, from electronics to hacking toys to creative coding. The prototypes on show raised a lot of interest at the open day.
artists moving image Responding to Waterloo Festival’s 2019 theme Transforming Being, this moving image exhibition explores the myriad meanings of self-service
A prize to celebrate digital art, part of the London Group open.
// Mar 2019 // We spent a fascinating and full-on Thinking Space weekend with the Spare Tyre Associate Artists last weekend.
// Mar 2019 // Building a networked live coding collaborative art game with the students from Broadstairs College as part of our Dreamland residency.
// Feb 2019 // Great response to our cosmic PCs and projections at the Clore Learning Studios over the Half term week.
// Feb 2019 // We’ll be presenting Underwater City which we made with Ramsgate Arts Primary School as part of our Dreamland residency last year at this new festival.
// Feb 2019 // Last December We had a wonderful time working with all 220 kids at Ramsgate Arts Primary School to build a digital Underwater City. Watch what happened.
// Jan 2019 // An experimental three day show in a blacked out Cello Factory with The London Group, The Computer Arts Society, The Lumen Prize and friends which we organised.
// Jan 2019 // Last November we worked with 16 local artists and makers creating Parades and Cascades, inspired by Fernand Leger, the funfair at Dreamland and also the Parades and Carnivals in Margate.
// Jan 2019 // We are Dreamland’s Digital Artists-In-Residence
// Dec 2018 // We look back at the year we turned our practice inside out
// Dec 2018 // Well what a fantastic few days we had with Ramsgate Arts Primary School (RAPS) working together to build a digital underwater city.
// Nov 2018 // We’ve just completed a series of free creative coding workshops with Margate based artists and makers, in particular people who work at local Artist Studios. The workshops were part of our ongoing digital art residency at Dreamland.
// Nov 2018 // FREE creative coding workshops for Margate artists run by Margate digital artists Genetic Moo and organised by Dreamland
// Oct 2018 // What an amazing place. We were blown away by the scale and energy of Beijing and how friendly, skilful and confident the Chinese people are and how full of wonder the city is.
// Sept 2018 // Apocalypse Now! is a generative artwork created by over 200 National Citizen Service (NCS) participants in workshops at Kent University.
// Sept 2018 // We’ll be screening our short film Becoming Starfish in The London Group’s latest exhibition, featuring the work of 74 of the current members.
// May-Jun 2018 // It’s been a while since we showed in Wales, so we jumped at the opportunity to show in Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon for a month.
// Apr-Oct 2018 // Microworld is up and running at Eureka!
// Feb 2018 // We’re providing two Kinect-driven games for GEEK 2018 at Dreamland, Margate
// Feb 2018 // Down From London, The London Group’s latest exhibition, opens early Feb at Linden Hall Studio in Deal
// Dec 2017 // Creative coding workshops in Dundee’s evocative D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum
// Nov 2017 // This new prize is part of The London Group Open. This year our prize went to Sandra Crisp for her experimental video work Remote City (skygardens_towers)
// Nov 2017 // The Lumen Prize returns to Winns Gallery with an exciting, interactive show: Adventures in Digital Art. This FREE family-friendly exploration of Lumen Prize art from all over the world and will run from 16 – 21 November.
// Sept 2016 – Jan 2018 // Love-in-idleness was the name Shakespeare gave to a small purple flower, the juice of which is planted in various people’s eyes in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. Love as ever-changing, transformative and beyond the control of the lovers.
// Sept 2017 // We’ve always wanted to see how our interactive artworks could be used in a theatrical setting and this project gave us the chance to find out.
// Jul 2017 // What an amazing time we had showcasing Microworld to the Singapore Public and, with over 4,000 visitors, it gave us the chance to fully test two new work-station pieces.
// Jul-Aug 2017 // This summer we ran workshops at Watermans Art Centre asking 8-12 year olds to “Make a Journey. Take a Journey.” The results of the workshops will be exhibited in August and September.
// Mar-May 2017 // A small group exhibition by The London Group at the Watermans Art Centre New Media Gallery curated by Genetic Moo and Irini Papadimitriou.
// Nov 2016 // We brought It’s Alive! to NEoN Digital Arts Festival in 2016. This is Scotland’s biggest digital art event with exhibitions, performances, talks and demos all over the beautiful city of Dundee. Our contribution took place in the Wellgate Shopping centre.
// Oct 2016 // As usual, we had a great time in Cardiff exhibiting our third Microworld at Arcadecardiff, thanks Rob and Hannah for your continued support and enthusiasm.
// Aug 2016 // A buzzing week of digital activities in the heart of Leicester.
// Sept 2016 // We’ve set-up an installation in a police-cell and will be providing free workshops as part of the Margate Festival.
// Aug 2016 // This summer, we ran a week long game programming workshop at Watermans. We taught eighteen 8-12 year olds basic game programming as part of the Urban Ambush program.
// 18 May 2016 // We delighted to have won the audio-visual prize in this year’s Kent Creative Awards. Well done Nathalie Banaigs for organising it all, and hopefully it goes on celebrating the fantastic art in Kent. Here is our submission.
// May-Jun 2016 // Our film ‘Open Sky Etude’ is being screened on the largest screen in the world! Our film joins the work of 5 other artists and will be shown twice a day, every day for a month on the ICC Tower’s 77,000 square metres LED screen.
// throughout 2016 // The animations have been completed and the tour is about to begin. To read about this amazing project visit the Silent Signal website.
// Oct 2015 // We were delighted to be part of this year’s Sheffield-based festival entitled “The Promise Of The Internet” which housed a busy events program across the fortnight with DJs, live coding, workshops + performances.
// Sept 2015 // This summer, experience re-imagined Margate…a playground for creative experimentation, from Mods and Rockers to tidal pool wild swimmers, Provincial Punkers to Dream-makers, the town’s identity is built on subcultures.
// Jun 2015 // This year we worked on our first portrait commission and our subject was 4 year Hector Dimitriadis.
// Feb-Jun 2015 // This year, we’ve run Blister Cinemas in Margate and Cardiff to help us create our Animate Projects commission “Battle of Blister”.
// Apr-Jun 2015 // It’s Alive! part of a group show organised by Furtherfield. 25 APRIL – 21 JUNE 2015 Open weekends 12-6pm Furtherfield Gallery, Finsbury Park London N4 2NQ
// Oct 2014 // Our digital ecosystem joins the Kinetica 2014 Art Fair.
// Sept-Oct 2014 // It’s Alive! is appearing in this exciting digital art show curated by Sean Clark.
// Sept 2014 // A day of workshops at Turner Contemporary for local schools and colleges.
// Oct 2014 // Joining The Lumen Prize at the OCC for a one-day conference DIGITAL ART: an ever-changing art form.
// Sept 2014 // The Wellcome Trust has awarded a Large Arts Award to Silent Signal an ambitious project exploring genetics, immunology and epidemiology.
// Sept 2014 // Can digital art move us emotionally? Our generative work Mother appeared in this questioning exhibition which asked if digital art can be more than just a display of technical wizardry.
// Jun 2014 // Our first international Microworld as part of the Lumen Prize Exhibition.
// May-Jun 2014 // Our second visit to ArcadeCardiff and with an exciting Microworld line-up.
// Apr 2014 // Aeroplankton will be responding to radio works commissioned for Radio Arts group show “Dreamlands”.
// Feb-Sept 2014 // Animacules joining Furtherfield’s exciting digital tour of shopping centres and retail parks.
// Feb 2014 // A microworld on a micro-island. Microworld Papay saw the creation of another living digital ecosystem – this time on a remote Orkney Island, Papa Westray.
// Feb 2014 // Transform your form! Created for Adventures in Comics 2013. The Phylogenator transformed humans into a wiggly sea creature at the Pie Factory, Margate.
// Nov 2013 // A Microworld in our home town.
// Oct 2013 // We are delighted to have been awarded the inaugural Founder’s Prize by The Lumen Prize, the world’s most eminent digital art award.
// Apr 2013 // Our first Microworld.