A world of digital creatures
We refer to Microworld artworks as creatures as they respond to the audience, the space and to each other. They use simple sensors to see and hear and exhibit life-like behaviour.
Squidlets
Become Digital Art!
Join the sea of Squidlets, looking for food and competing for survival.
Webcam and Touchscreen Monitor
Multiple
Throw some shapes!
Multiply yourself across the screen in mesmerising patterns.
Kinect sensor
Hector & The Sunstars
Hector is hungry
Hector and his friends move in response to each other and to the colours in the gallery.
Webcam
Aeroplankton
Creatures of the airwaves
Clap, sing and whistle. Different frequencies create different shapes.
Webcam and mic
Globster
Squishable, Squashable, Squelchable
Become a playmate for this cheeky little alien.
Kinect sensor
The Starfish
An ever-changing watery world
A community of creatures respond to changes in the gallery.
Webcam
It’s Alive! Ants
Draw with your body
Tiny ants are attracted to your silhouette. As you move, you leave traces of past actions.
Kinect sensor
Warm Little Pond
Where life began
A blue circle gently pulses on the floor. Put your hand in and activate bursts of living particles.
Kinect sensor
Tangled Bank
Let’s eat!
Become a swarm of aphids, munching through the endless vegetation.
Kinect sensor
Sticky
Strike a chord!
Explore a musical world of 3D objects and changing forces. One minute the objects stick, the next they flow.
Kinect sensor
Tunbridge Ware
Strike a pose!
Your portrait is revealed in a world of tumbling tiles where movement activates sound and colourful woodworms.
Kinect sensor
Cockatoo Squid
A musical companion
The Cockatoo Squid listens out for inspiration. Sing to it and the squid will attempt to imitate you.
Webcam and mic
SeaPeople
Building a dynamic and chaotic world
Engage in a multi-layered ecosystem where you have the power to change everything.
Touchscreen Monitor
Animats
Build your own animal robot
Design and create an Animat and see how well it survives.
Webcam and Touchscreen Monitor
SEED
The visual coding machine
Draw patterns and choose rules in this Cellular Automata program. Small changes can have huge ripple effects.
Touchscreen Monitor
"Microworld, a dynamic realm filled with artificial creatures inspired by nature that the participants themselves could design and then watch as they evolved and travelled through space."
- Rebecca Anne Procter, Harpers Bazaar Arabia. Microworld Ithra 2019
HOST THE MICROWORLD CREATURES
Contact Jack Addis to find out how. jack@lumenstudios.art +44(0)7784831854
Jack Addis, Exhibitions Director at Lumen Studios, has been working with Genetic Moo since 2015. He builds Microworlds around the world.
Lumen Studios
167-169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London, W1W 5PF