Constantly unique, Lifeforms is an amalgam of installations that mirror and shift with time and the public’s interactions. No visitor will see the same show twice.

This exhibition brings together 14 of our digital ‘lifeforms’, existing in individual habitats created by Ab Rogers Design. Our biggest UK solo show to date fuses architecture, projection, generative video, sound and interaction to spawn vibrant ever-evolving characters. Looping video experiences create curiously mesmerising parades of future humans, micro-organisms and plants – a subterranean world of hyperreal lifeforms.

Premiering three new works – Primordial, Maison Autonome, and Into the Sun – Lifeforms embraces and subverts the power of emerging technologies, from high-end visual effects and real-time game engines to physics simulations and computer vision. Through stylised body movements, diverse appearances and mass behaviours, digital soulful life emerges.

The artworks draw from the history of visual culture – from the Futurists’ attempt to depict the body in motion to Eadweard Muybridge’s sequential 19th-century film experiences.

We created many of the lifeforms in this exhibition with generative software. We design the computational systems that grow characters, plants or abstract lifeforms – yet personalities emerge by themselves.

Lifeforms is at 180 The Strand, London, 10 October–18 December 2022. Open Wednesday–Sunday, 11am–7pm.

We have calculated the display of artworks will use 7500kWh of electricity, resulting in 2 tonnes of CO2 emissions (2tCO2e). This is the equivalent of air freighting four large paintings from London to LA. We have carbon offset these emissions with Solar Aid.

Artworks :

Primordial (World Premiere)
Infinity (UK Premiere)
Walking City
Future You
Machine Learning
Maison Autonome (World Premiere)
Supreme Believers
Superconsumers (UK Premiere)
Transfiguration (2020)
Live Forever (World Premiere)
Into the Sun (World Premiere)
Voxel Posse
Nature Always Wins (UK Premiere)
Communion (2020)