Statement, Biography and CV
Artists Statement
We build creatures, both beguiling and unsettling. Since 2005 we have been developing Imagined Future Evolutions; a series of interactive video projections for darkened spaces. Each creature combines elements of the human and the aquatic. We stitch together video clips of our own bodies into sea-life forms and make them respond in a variety of life-like ways to motion, touch, changes in lighting or sound.
The works are driven using Flash Software and webcams. The creatures vary in size from the tiny Animacules to the all encompassing Mother. As the series has developed the interactions between audience and creature have become less prescribed, more subtle.
Thematically we’re interested in genetic mutation and modification, polymorphous perversity and the grotesque. We’re fascinated by the role that interaction has within our art. If people are faintly disturbed by what they see, then that is good.
Biography
Nicola Schauerman lives and works in London. She graduated with an MA in Electronic Arts 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 291 Gallery, 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 Ats from Camberwell College of Arts in 2009, and lives in Peckham.
Since 2006, Schauerman and Pickup have worked on a series of interactive video installations which have been presented at a number of London venues, including the Bargehouse. One of the works, Becoming Starfish, received the John Lansdown Award for Interactive Digital Art, 2nd prize, at Eurographics 2007.
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CV
Selected Exhibitions, Performances and Screenings
Mother (video installation) 2009, EMBED, The Camberwell Space, Camberwell College of Arts
Mother (video installation) 2009, Transition, the Bargehouse, South Bank.
Starfish (print) 2009, WAVE Blurring Boundaries, University of Alberta, Canada
The Glob (print) 2008, FEEDBACK, House Gallery, London
Animacules (interactive video installation) 2008, Exploding Cinema, London
Animacules (photographs) 2008, Nunhead Arts Week 2008, London
Animacules (interactive video installation) 2008, Jago Gallery, London
Imagined Future Evolutions: Sea Squirts (interactive video installation) 2008, Collision 08, Area 10 Project Space, London.
Imagined Future Evolutions: Sea Squirts (interactive video installation) 2008, Exploding Cinema, London.
Imagined Future Evolutions: Starfish (interactive video installation) 2008, () RE | BOOT; Area 10 Project Space, London.
Imagined Future Evolutions: Starfish and Urchin (interactive video installation) 2008, The Bargehouse, South Bank.
Imagined Future Evolutions: Starfish and Sea Squirts (interactive video installation) 2008, Seven Sisters Gallery, London.
Becoming Starfish (interactive video installation) 2006, A-MUSE, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, London
Feral Beasts (film) 2006, NODE London, Area 10,
- 2005, Exploding Cinema, London
AHAB (film) 2005, IFCT, New York
- 2004, Bunter Hund – Munich Film Festival
- 2004, Venice Short Film Festival.
- 2004, Candid Arts, London
Powerful Sexual Moments (Prints and contraptions) 2004, The Foundry, London
HEAVE (radio show) 2003, Resonance FM, London “13 minutes of Heaven”
Diptych (performance) – 2003, Area10, London
The Barney and Fanny Show and Audio adventures in science, pseudo-science and nonsense (weekly radio shows) 2002 – 2003, Resonance FM, London
Willow – Sirus – Wave (film) 2002, Tango Art, Chisenhale Dance Space, London
Death of Genetic Moo (radio show) 2002, Resonance FM, London
Who’s the Boss? (film) 2001, The Whitechapel Gallery, London
Karaoke Jam (performance) 2001, Meddle, 5 Years Gallery London
3×3 and Goldfinger (film) 2000, the Starr auditorium, Tate Modern, London
Goldfinger (film) 2000, Volcano Festival, London
3×3, Initiation and Where’s Judy? (film) 2000, Exploding Cinema, London
An Evening with Genetic Moo (film and performance) 2000, 291 Gallery, London
Collections
Performing Family, by Nicola Schauerman held by the Arts Council of England; The British Council; SCRîN – Welsh Film Council; British Artists’ Film & Video Study Collection and C4.
Commissions
Dangerous Games (film) performed by The HotPots and commissioned by Spare Tyre Theatre Company, 2007
Willow – Sirus – Wave (film) – commissioned by Anthony Howell for Tango Art, Chisenhale Dance Space, London, 2002
Performing Family (film) Channel 4 film commission for Midnight Underground, televised 1997. Co-funded by the Arts Council of England and the Arts Council of Wales
Doing in its Own Right an 8 hour video compilation of international performance art including Beuys, Gilbert & George, Orlan, Stelarc, Schneeman and Station House Opera, commissioned by The Serpentine Gallery, included in their Summer programme, 1997
Awards
The John Lansdown Award for Interactive Digital Art, 2nd prize, Eurographics 2007 for Becoming Starfish.
Nicola Schauerman has been selected for the 2009 Artists Access to Art Colleges Scheme hosted by Camberwell College of Arts
Reviews / Articles
Issue 4, Volume 26, Computer Graphics Forum (2007)
March 2004 – Guardian Guide Preview of Powerful Sexual Moments
Presentations
2008/9 – three Artist in Residence presentions at Camberwell College of Arts: Imagined Future Evolutions; my artistic practice and the making of Mother
2007 – http gallery, DIWO conference – presentation on Imagined Future Evolutions
2006 – Lansdown Symposium “The State of Interactive Art”- presentation on Becoming Starfish
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Genetic Moo Members since 2000 have included:
Tim Pickup
Nicola Schauerman
Fanny Cox
Jean Hogg
Barney Netherwood
Theo Sykes
Roland Watson
Ricky Edwards
Lidhka
