Viewing Universal Everything – Lifeforms 

In their newest immersive exhibition 180 Studios brings together a collection of 14 generative moving image art projects created by the media art and design collective Universal Everything. Known for their innovative displays this exhibition is the largest UK installation by the collective to date since they were established in 2004.

Described as ‘lifeforms’, the characterful artworks were designed using generative software that allows the work to shift, move and interact with spectators in unpredictable ways. As such, no two visits are the same and create unique experience for each visitor to the gallery space. Every artwork occupies its own individual habitat that has been specially designed by Ab Rogers Architects to make interactions personalised and specific.

Drawing from this history of visual culture – from Futurist painters’ attempts to depict the passages of movement in new dynamic ways on the canvas surfaces to Eadweard Muybridges’ famed film and photography experiments in the 19th century – this exhibition transforms the meaning of movement and life in art.