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| MICROWORLD : PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS interactive multi-chanell video installation "If there was an interactive art work in a space and nobody turned up - what a calamity! But if there was a second interactive art work living opposite the first then what sort of conversation could take place?" Microworld is the latest project by Genetic Moo - an experiment in building a 'living' digital ecosystem where we fill a space with many interactive things and see what happens next. Will the things find enough energy to thrive and survive or will they starve of attention, wither and die? What happens when two pieces feed off each other? Will the digital creatures find enough encouragement and energy in the wind, light, rain and noise of the Island? Will new organisms emerge from within the intersections between the real and the virtual? What happens when you put other human shaped interactive things in the middle of all these processes? Microworld Papay will see Genetic Moo host a range of active, interactive and generative art works by themselves and others in response to the island's ecosystem. Over the course of the festival they will design and program new pieces which feed on the ambient weather conditions, and they will go out into the wild to gather resources to be filmed and scanned and reborn as digital beings. They will attempt to bring these beings into some sort of natural balance which can handle major or minor perturbations. Genetic Moo will encourage other artists and participants to contribute their own elements into this Microworld - as always they are interested in generating a dynamic process and encourage physical engagement with art as opposed to standing around thinking about it. The Microworld will change and evolve, flouresce and shimmer, it may even collapse - but if so we will pick it up and combine the elements in new and exciting cascades of activity across the festival. There will also be a dancing chicken. |
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Moo 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, Area10 and the Bargehouse, and at international film festivals in Venice, Munich and New York. Nicola has taught film and video production in Further Education since 2000. 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 |
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