Christmas 2018 Newsletter
// Dec 2018 // We look back at the year we turned our practice inside out
RAPS: Underwater City
// Dec 2018 // Well what a fantastic few days we had with Ramsgate Arts Primary School (RAPS) working together to build a digital underwater city.
coding workshops
// Nov 2018 // FREE creative coding workshops for Margate artists run by Margate digital artists Genetic Moo and organised by Dreamland
Microworld Beijing
// 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.
Apocalypse NOW! at MargateFestival
// Sept 2018 // Apocalypse Now! is a generative artwork created by over 200 National Citizen Service (NCS) participants in workshops at Kent University.
Animats, Animation and Artificial Life
// Dec 2017 // Creative coding workshops in Dundee’s evocative D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum
Adventures in Digital Art
// 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.
Love-in-Idleness, Scunthorpe
// 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.
Inspiration Inclusive Theatre collaboration
// 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.
Singapore Maker Faire
// 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.
Logopolis @ Watermans
// 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.
It’s Alive! @ NEoN Digital Arts, Dundee
// 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.
Microworld Cardiff 3
// 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.
Microworld Leicester
// Aug 2016 // A buzzing week of digital activities in the heart of Leicester.
The Octoscope of Margate
// Sept 2016 // We’ve set-up an installation in a police-cell and will be providing free workshops as part of the Margate Festival.
Urban Ambush Microgames
// 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.
Kent Creative Awards 2016
// 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.
Open Sky Gallery, Hong Kong
// 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.
Silent Signal tour
// 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.
Connect The Dots Festival, Sheffield
// 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.
Margate Festival: Tribes
// 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.
Blister Cinema
// 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”.
Beyond the Interface @ Furtherfield
// 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
Microworld Kinetica
// Oct 2014 // Our digital ecosystem joins the Kinetica 2014 Art Fair.
Interact @ LCB
// Sept-Oct 2014 // It’s Alive! is appearing in this exciting digital art show curated by Sean Clark.
NanoGEEK @ Turner Contemporary
// Sept 2014 // A day of workshops at Turner Contemporary for local schools and colleges.
Lumen Prize conference Athens
// Oct 2014 // Joining The Lumen Prize at the OCC for a one-day conference DIGITAL ART: an ever-changing art form.
Silent Signal success
// Sept 2014 // The Wellcome Trust has awarded a Large Arts Award to Silent Signal an ambitious project exploring genetics, immunology and epidemiology.
Microworld Hong Kong
// Jun 2014 // Our first international Microworld as part of the Lumen Prize Exhibition.
Microworld Cardiff 2
// May-Jun 2014 // Our second visit to ArcadeCardiff and with an exciting Microworld line-up.
Radio Arts Showcase
// Apr 2014 // Aeroplankton will be responding to radio works commissioned for Radio Arts group show “Dreamlands”.
Digital Zoo Tour
// Feb-Sept 2014 // Animacules joining Furtherfield’s exciting digital tour of shopping centres and retail parks.
Microworld Papa Gyro Nights
// 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.
Phylogenator
// 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.
Microworld Margate
// Nov 2013 // A Microworld in our home town.
Lumen Prize Founder’s Prize Award
// 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.
Microworld Arcadia
// Apr 2013 // Our first Microworld.