Special Microworld:Arcadia

Microworld : Arcadia is a 'living' art space in the heart of Cardiff, filled with magical projections, robots and electronic sounds, which will grow, transform and evolve in response to user activity. During the show visitors will be able to immerse themselves in an interactive digital wonderland. This Saturday dorkbot will be presenting a series of talks by some of the artists involved in this big experiment.

On the following day, Sunday 12-6pm , will be a making day where the artists will guide the visitors in simple interactive programming and Arduino electronics, if you want to join in then please bring along laptops. Both events are open for anyone to bring along their own projects and get involved. There will be spare projectors and computers around to show works.

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Venue:

Arcade Cardiff Gallery
Unit Queens Arcade
Cardiff, CF10 2BY
www.arcadecardiff.co.uk

2-4pm

Microworld:Arcadia show dates:
21st May to 2nd June, Open Daily 12-6PM (closed Mondays) ADMISSION FREE

Genetic Moo

Genetic Moo will discuss how they imagined the show and demonstrate several of their interactive artworks from the Starfish to the Squidlets. They have been making interactive art for 6 years creating fantastical human-hybrid creatures collaged from photographs of their own bodies.

Genetic Moo is artist couple Tim Pickup and Nicola Schauerman (who gave the inaugural talk at Cardiff Dorkbot back in 2011). They will explain the programming and graphics behind their creations and talk a little about the workshops planned for the following week.

Tine Bech

Tine Bech is a visual artist and researcher working with interactive installations and public art. For Microworld:Arcadia Tine is showing three light sculptures which change in colour as you move around them. These creatures communicate with each other and generate playful colour schemes as they detect spectators. Their luminosity will also activate other light seeking beings throughout the space.

Tine has exhibited interactive artwork internationally for years and is currently doing a Phd at Bristol.

Sean Clark

Sean Clark uses system theory to create interactive artworks. Last year with Genetic Moo he organised a show called Symbiotic at the Phoenix Cube gallery in Leicester which saw multiple interacting artworks. Sean will be showing Whale which stores memories of what it has seen - building up waves of visual material over time. He will also be bringing along his Etch-a-Pi, an Etch-a-sketch raspberry Pi hybrid.

Stefan Samociuk

Stefan Samociuk is a mathematical artist who works with HD video and surround sound exploring the synaesthetic structure of a recently discovered algorithm which he calls the Transcendent Transcode Algorithm. Spectacular geometric and audio spaces are delicately revealed. His talk will be entitled "The audio visual experience and transcendent transcoding.

Sarah Younan

Sarah Younan is doing a PhD at the Cardiff School of Art and Design researching using 3d scanning and print technologies to extend the impact of ceramic museum objects. She scans artefacts from the ceramics collections of the National Museum of Wales and then finds novel ways to engage with the digital models and 3d prints. People have created films, artworks and video games using her scans and she is looking to get more people involved.

Open dorks not

No open dorks for this one, but lots of activities to take part in on the following day, see info above.