, currently based: Margate
www.geneticmoo.com // www.microworld.art
About
Genetic Moo is a collaboration between creative coding couple Nicola Schauerman and Tim Pickup. They create large-scale interactive installations for museums and galleries. Their art encourages experimentation and play and is inspired by popular science, particularly ecology, artificial life and evolution.
Since 2013, Genetic Moo has been working on Microworld, an ambitious digital ecosystem project. Microworlds are immersive art spaces filled with digital creatures with life cycles and survival techniques and which respond to visitors using sensors. Visitors can interact with the creatures or design their own. Microworld is produced by Lumen Art Projects and has been shown around the world in Europe, the USA, the Middle East and Asia. In the last five years, over 420,000 people have engaged in a Microworld.
Genetic Moo has won numerous grants, awards and commissions worldwide. Their exhibitions include SKMU, Norway; Ithra, Dhahran; The Science Centre, Singapore; Eureka! Halifax; LABoral, Gijon; Kinetica, London; ICC Open Sky Gallery, Hong Kong; Dreamland, Margate; Glastonbury and The Wellcome Collection.
Genetic Moo works closely with Lumen Studios and sound artist Julia Schauerman, and is a member of the artists’ collective The London Group.
Since 2013, Genetic Moo has been working on Microworld, an ambitious digital ecosystem project. Microworlds are immersive art spaces filled with digital creatures with life cycles and survival techniques and which respond to visitors using sensors. Visitors can interact with the creatures or design their own. Microworld is produced by Lumen Art Projects and has been shown around the world in Europe, the USA, the Middle East and Asia. In the last five years, over 420,000 people have engaged in a Microworld.
Genetic Moo has won numerous grants, awards and commissions worldwide. Their exhibitions include SKMU, Norway; Ithra, Dhahran; The Science Centre, Singapore; Eureka! Halifax; LABoral, Gijon; Kinetica, London; ICC Open Sky Gallery, Hong Kong; Dreamland, Margate; Glastonbury and The Wellcome Collection.
Genetic Moo works closely with Lumen Studios and sound artist Julia Schauerman, and is a member of the artists’ collective The London Group.
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Solo Exhibitions
== 2024 =====
- Microworld at Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, Oct 2024 to Feb 2025
- Microworld at The Word, South Shields, Jul 2024 to Jan 2025
- Microworld at The Jetty Museum, Cumbria, Feb 2024 to Jan 2025
== 2023 =====
- Microworld Wolves Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
- Microworld Amelia The Amelia Scott, Royal Tunbridge Wells
== 2022 =====
- Microworld: Lincoln The Lincoln Museum & Usher Gallery
- Biocybernetic Universal System Tendency (B.U.S.T.) online multiplayer ecological art game
- Daisyworld online and gallery exhibition at Phoenix, Leicester, 7 Jan-20 Feb
== 2021 =====
- Virtual Microworld on SKMU Virtual
- Microworld Kristiansand, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum
- Multiple at Kristiansand Airport, Norway
== 2020 =====
- Microworld@HOME / 25 2-hour programmes on our YouTube channel.
- Microworld Eckert Art Gallery, Millersville University, Pennsylvania
- Microworld Ithra The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, Dhahran
== 2019 =====
- NOW digital 10-day festival curated by Genetic Moo for Margate Festival
== 2018 =====
- Microworld Beijing at ITEC2018, International Tinkering Education Conference, Beijing
- Apocalypse NOW! Margate Festival
- Microworld Eureka! The National Children’s Museum, Halifax
- Microworld Brecon at Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon
- Love-in-idleness 20-21 Visual Arts Scunthorpe
== 2016 =====
- It's Alive! NEoN Digital Arts Festival Dundee
- Microworld Cardiff 3 at ArcadeCardiff, part of Cardiff Contemporary
- Microworld Leicester, WotSPACE
== 2015 =====
- Blister Cinema 3, Limbo Art Space, Margate
- Blister Cinema 2, ArcadeCardiff, Cardiff
- Blister Cinema 1, GEEK 2015, Margate
- Microworld Kinetica, Kinetica Art Fair, London
== 2014 =====
- Microworld Hong Kong, The Lumen Prize Exhibition, The Space, Hong Kong
- Microworld Cardiff 2, ArcadeCardiff, Cardiff
- Microworld Papay Gyro Nights, Papa Westray, Orkney
== 2013 =====
- Microworld Margate, Marine Studios, Margate
- Microworld Arcadia, ArcadeCardiff, Cardiff
== 2012 =====
- Symbiotic, The Cube Gallery, Phoenix Leicester
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GRANTS & AWARDS
- Daisyworld an Art Game commission exploring ecology and the Anthropocene leading to a gallery and online exhibition at Phoenix, Leicester, Jan to Feb 2022
- Artists in Virtual Residence at SKMU Virtual, organised by Sørlandets Kunstmuseum (SKMU) in collaboration with Lumen Art Projects. Virtual Microworld was created as a parallel online exhibition to Microworld Kristiansand with support from Biome Collective 2021
- ACE National Lottery Project Grant, making Microworld Covid-secure 2020
- Margate Festival funding. NOW digital 2019
- ACE Grants for the Arts, NOW digital, Margate Festival 2019
- Digital Artists in Residence Dreamland, Margate, 2018-2019
- KCC Arts Investment Fund for UPSTAGE 2017
- Spare Tyre seed funding, for UPSTAGE 2017
- Winner Kent Creative Award Audio-Visual prize 2016
- ISEA2016 Open Sky Project, ICC Tower urban media screen Hong Kong, Official Selection 2016
- ACE Grants for the Arts, Microworld Kinetica, Kinetica Art Fair 2014
- Founder’s Prize Lumen Prize 2013
- The Erotic Awards, Best Artist finalist, 2012
- The London Group Open, Newcomer Prize winner, 2009
- Eurographics The John Lansdown Award for Interactive Digital Art, 2nd prize, 2007.
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