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From this week, visitors to the Arcadecardiff gallery in Cardiff's Queens Arcade will be greeted by an interactive digital wonderland where anything is possible.

Bizarre creatures including cockatoo squids, sea squirts and squidlets will grow and transform against a futuristic experimental backdrop created through a range of ever-changing art projects.

Microworld: Arcadia is the brainchild of the digital art collective Genetic Moo, and will feature light projections, robots, electronic sounds and live music.

Each of these multiple artworks will interact with one another but will also evolve in response to user activity. The cockatoo squid responds to calls and will even duet with a saxophonist, while little 'cone jellies' will change colour according to the clothes the audience are wearing.

Audience members will also be able to lend their faces to little squidlets, which are made of an assortment of hands and can be fed and sustained by different coloured light.

The founders of Genetic Moo, who prefer to remain anonymous, said: "We were inspired by a 成人论坛 programme called Microworld, which looked at some of the world's most iconic ecosystems.

"We decided to use different types of technology to create our own self-sufficient ecology, where different types of creatures grow and change and build in number as the show progresses.

"We've invited a whole host of different artists to participate in this experimental project and bring their own unique talents along for people to engage with in this exciting space.

"With things like the squidlets, people will be able to create their own little artworks and if they come back to the show a few days later, will be able to reactivate their squidlets by shining light on them.

"They can also alter the colour of living coral with what they are wearing and even use their mobile phones to change creatures' colours or participate in motion tracking.

"Over the course of the exhibition, one of the collaborators, Sean Clark, will use a piece called Memory Mirror, which will gather data from interactions made during the show, which can then be played back to audiences."

Artists taking part alongside Genetic Moo include Tine Bech, who is responsible for three light sculptures which change in colour as you move around them.

Roboticist and dancer Paul Granjon, who is head of sculpture at Cardiff School of Art, is bringing along some interactive machines, while Sean Olsen's breed of robots will splatter the surrounding area in paint as they move and Jane Webb will thrill people with her recycled components, lights, lasers and mirrors.

Wendy Keay-Bright from Cardiff School of Art and Design will also use different apps to explore how touch, and gesture interaction can engage young people with communication difficulties.

Microworld: Arcadia will inhabit Arcadecardiff at the Queens Arcade in Cardiff from 21 May to 2 June. Admission is free and the gallery is open from 12-6pm each day except Mondays. For more details visit .