WINDERMERE.- A new interactive digital display comes to Windermere Jetty Museum. Microworld is an immersive, digital ecosystem that responds to sound and movement in real time, inviting visitors to engage with art and the environment.

Opening 10 February 2024, Microworld is a unique experience designed for curious minds of all ages, including families, adults, science enthusiasts and those fascinated by the natural world. Audiences are invited to play, explore, experiment, create, collaborate and learn. The world of bustling micro-creatures will invite audiences to reflect on the biodiversity and ecology of Lake Windermere.

You can interact with digital creatures and explore how they are impacted by your presence, or you can watch them in action. Microworld is an inclusive interactive display. As soon as you walk into a Microworld, you start affecting it.

Microworld is the latest evolution in digital art exhibitions where curiosity comes to life through a fully immersive, interactive experience. The projected artworks respond to the audience, to the space, and to each other. What emerges is an exciting dynamic digital ecosystem.

For February half term families can enjoy constructing a cardboard creature at Windermere Jetty Museum. For children under 5 there will also be an engaging sensory area. These self-led creative activities will be running daily from 10-18 February, visitors can drop in between 11-4pm.

Lakeland Arts’ Chief Executive, Rhian Harris, states” We are delighted to have such an exciting, educational experience coming to Windermere Jetty Museum. Microworld will provide a space for visitors to have a fun and immersive adventure whilst learning about biodiversity and thinking about how we interact with the world around us.”

Microworld is a celebration of a new type of digital art that encourages experimentation and collaborative play. The experiences have been installed around the world in Europe, the USA, the Middle East and Asia. To date over 420,000 people have interacted with a Microworld.

Microworlds are designed and programmed by Genetic Moo and produced by Lumen Art Projects. Genetic Moo is a collaboration between creative coding duo Nicola Schauerman and Tim Pickup. They create large-scale interactive installations for museums, including Eureka! The National Children’s Museum.

Microworld

Microworlds are designed and programmed by Genetic Moo and produced by Lumen Art Projects.

Genetic Moo is a prize-winning digital art duo and part of the Lumen Art Projects network. Nicola Schauerman and Tim Pickup have been making interactive art since 2008, starting with a single digital starfish. They live in the UK. Since 2013, Genetic Moo has been working on Microworld, an ambitious digital ecosystem project.

Lumen Art Projects is a not-for-profit organisation based in the UK, dedicated to fostering dialogue around contemporary art, culture and technology. It specialises in curation, production, installation and maintenance of art and technology-based artworks and exhibitions.

Windermere Jetty Museum
Microworld
10 February 2024 – 1 January 2025