​SPEAKERS:
AMINDER VIRDEE | NATASHA TROTMAN | MACARENA MORENO

HOSTED BY ART IN FLUX

Photography by Sophie le Roux.

​The Access All Areas PV will explore what accessibility means in a time when the virtual and the physical become more intertwined. The event will feature artist presentations from Aminder Virdee, Natasha Trotman and Macarena Moreno and an overall launch of the exhibition by the Art in Flux founders, Maria Almena, Olive Gingrich and Aphra Shemza. The talks will last for approximately half an hour and will be streamed live via our Youtube channel. Before and after the presentations there will be a chance to meet the artists in the show and experience the physical exhibition as hosted by the British Computer Society. 

The Access All Areas exhibition features art works by the Art in Flux community, its founders,  Maria Almena , Aphra Shemza and Olive Gingrich and some of the UK’s foremost pioneering media artists - with a focus on underrepresentation in the Media Arts. In this quest, the exhibition presents artworks by the artists Aminder Virdee, Analema Group, Aphra Shemza, Ashokkumar Mistry, Becky Lyon, boredomresearch, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Eva Sbaraini, Graham Diprose, Kimatica Studio, Magik Door, Mowgli, Natasha Trotman, Olive Gingrich & Shama Rahman, Paul Friedlander, Stacey Pitsillides & Ghislaine Boddington, Stuart Batchelor, as well as Zarah Hussain. 

The exhibition presents 3D printed sculpture, light artworks, AR pieces, a moving image programme and performative NFTs, as well as an animation program of student work from Bournemouth, Greenwich and Roehampton Universities. The exhibition also premieres the Art in Flux Archive Collection of original prints from their community of artists that will be donated to the renowned Computer Arts Society and their historic media arts archive following the exhibition.
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​Access all Areas is supported by the Arts Council of England, Heritage Lottery Funding, the Computer Arts Society, EVA London and the British Computer Society.

Images: Natasha Trotman, ND, YOU, ME: GLITCH, 2022, Aminder Virdee, Exosomatic Echoes, 2021 and Macarena Moreno, Vertigo, 2022.

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About the speakers

Amider Virdee: Artist, writer and activist 
https://www.aminder-virdee.com/

Aminder Virdee is a British South Asian artist, writer, activist, and Trustee at UK’s leading disability-led live music accessibility organisation Attitude is Everything. She is also the founder and president of Disabled Intersectional Voices in the Arts (DIVA), a disability-focused network (currently at UAL) generating sites of creative resistance against institutional and educational ableism, and co-founder of Cripjoy, a transnational, majority BIPoC, community of practice re-worlding mental health through an intersectional, anti-ableist, and anti-sanist, lens. Aminder is also co-writer, director’s attachment, and access-centred consultant for short film Crutches (2021) funded by BFI, with multi award-winning director Nathan Morris, and executive producers 104 Films.
 
As an artist, Aminder’s work has been commissioned, exhibited, and performed across the UK, including the National Theatre of Scotland, Lyric Theatre, Bonington Gallery, Lewisham Arthouse, Bow Arts, and Tate Exchange. Aminder views her artistic practice as a creative resistance inherently subverting and transforming spaces, routines, rituals, and memories, into political sites of radical agency. This traverses multiple disciplines such as social justice; crip technoscience; disability, race and diaspora studies; computer science; physics; biology; and philosophy. She also works across multiple artforms as a world-remaking and dismantling tool; endlessly adapting to a world built without intersectional disability in mind, these include digital and computational art, kinetic sculpture, installation, moving image, sound art, live art and performance. She often uses participatory systems to amplify unheard and unrepresented voices, and to connect lived experience to the public sphere.

Natasha Trotman: Neurodivergent artist
https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/residents/natasha-trotman

Natasha is an Inclusive Designer, Maker and Researcher whose work focuses on mental difference and neurodiversity as a way to foster new conversations and new approaches to the world around us. Her work examines different ways of experiencing and processing the world – for people with hidden disabilities and neurodivergent communities such as dyspraxic and autistic persons, through to people living with dementia; she also works with neurotypical people. Her work not only seeks to raise awareness concerning mental difference and marginalised experiences but to also reframe mainstream notions of equality, equity, diversity, and inclusion; asking audiences to consider the nuances and complexities of these terms through provocations, play and creative 'interrogations'.

Natasha studied Information Experience Design (IED) at the Royal College of Art and has a Masters degree in IED, with a background in Graphic Design and Computer Science. She is also a special educational needs/disability practitioner working with disabled children and young people. She has exhibited widely, creating sensory workshops and exhibits at cultural
institutions and organisations including The Victoria and Albert Museum, The London Design Biennale at Somerset House, the National Portrait Gallery and Tate Britain and was selected for The Shaw Trust Powerlist Top 100 Influential Disabled People 2019.

Macarena Moreno: Storyteller
https://www.macarenamb.co.uk/

My name is Macarena Moreno. I am currently studying my third year of Animation at the University of Greenwich. I currently work in the Marketing sector as a Marketing and Recruitment manager.

I am a Storyteller and VFX lover. I can tell stories, so my main goal is to find a job in the Animation and VFX sector where I can provoke emotions in the viewers.
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My most significant achievement in life has been being a single mother of two daughters, working and studying simultaneously, learning new languages and reaching my third year of the Animation Degree with First Class in Storytelling, Animation and VFX subjets. And also, Sharing one of my projects at the Flux event is another fantastic achievement. 

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