Microworld@Home
Genetic Moo

Summary

Tim Pickup and Nicola Schauerman, working as Genetic Moo, introduce MicroworldHome, a domestic adaptation of their long-running interactive ecosystem Microworld. They describe a practice that combines biology, microorganisms and artificial-life algorithms to make algorithmic creatures, and favours unencumbered, multi-user interaction through webcams, microphones, depth sensors and touchscreens. With lockdown preventing physical exhibitions, they have rebuilt their studio at home using projectors, low-cost webcams, a dome mirror and Open Broadcaster Software to stream live, connected performances. Their setup links several computers so artworks respond to each other and to a small live audience through video feedback, while a graphical slider interface lets them compose and manipulate scenes on the fly without editing code. They preview a Saturday event that combines a YouTube stream with an informal Zoom social and contributions from sound artists and Sean Clark's pixel-drawing tool, and reflect on how this DIY, remote format could become a continuing model for connected art spaces, enabling collaborators in different locations to share and influence a single evolving digital environment.

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