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Chris MacInnes is a British-American artist, technician and programmer raised in Sheffield. He uses a myriad of technologies and technical skills to unpick, poke and test the complex planetary networks that bind together universal facts and local phenomena.
MacInnes has used game engines, server deployment, multiplayer environments, physical computing, web-scraping and AI to tug at the meshwork of a networked world. |
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(b. 1995; lives and works in Berlin, Germany)
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley is an artist working in animation, sound, performance, and video games to communicate the experiences of being a Black Trans person. Their practice focuses on recording the lives of Black Trans people and intertwining lived experience with fiction to imaginatively retell Trans stories. Spurred on by a desire to record the “History of Trans people both living and past,” their work can often be seen as a Trans archive where Black Trans people are stored for the future. Throughout history, Black queer and Trans people have been erased from the archives. Because of this it is necessary not only to archive their existence, but to record the many creative narratives they have used and continue to use to share their experiences. In 2022, Brathwaite-Shirley produced a solo performance work at alongside the Serpentine, London. Recent solo exhibitions have taken place at Skanes Konstforening , Sweeden(2022) Arebyte gallery, London(2021) Quad, Derby(2021) Focal Point Gallery, London (2020); Science Gallery, London (2020). She has also been included in group exhibitions at Julia Stoscheck Collection (2022), ANKA KULTYS GALLERY (2022) Transmediale Berlin (2021) Alright Knox, New York(2021) MU ,Eindhoven(2020)Les Urbaines, Lausanne, Switzerland (2019); Copeland Gallery, London (2019); and Barbican, London (2018). |
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I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Greenwich, London exploring the topic of evolution of cyberspace in the net art practice. The working title of my Ph.D. From Net to Art The Conceptualisation of Cyberspace within Net Art Practices (2004 - 2021). I got my bachelor's degree in Art History and Italian studies at the University of Birmingham (Birmingham) and my MA in Contemporary Studies and Curation at Westminster University (London): where I was involved with the Tate Exchange project. My research project was based on the Rhizome platform and consisted of interviews and analytical data. At the moment, I am teaching at the University of Greenwich on the topic of digital studies, as well as holding a position of communication manager at the Kino Klassika Foundation (https://www.kinoklassikafoundation.org/ ), where the aim is to showcase classic films of the Soviet, Russian and Caucasian film traditions.
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Maria Almena is a Spanish London-based creative director, art curator and a multimedia artist. Co-founder of the creative studio, Kimatica www.kimatica.net, as well as co-founder of the charitable organisation Art in Flux http://www.artinfluxlondon.com/.
Maria's practice is exploring concepts of human consciousness and perception, making those transcendental ideas accessible to a modern audience, to inspire reconnection with magical thinking and the ethereal world. Fascinated by the juxtaposition of the physical and spiritual, the virtual and real spaces, and the scientific and artistic concepts. She enjoys playing with perception aiming to transport the viewer into new worlds, using experimental technologies as magical tools that help to dramatise the transition between different states of being and highlighting the importance of the journey in itself. With Kimatica she has been commissioned by British council, Tate Museum, Instagram, Barbican centre, Veuve Clicquot and many Light and Art festivals like Lightwaves, Wilderness and Jerusalem festivals. With Flux she has participated in projects supported by Arts Council England and Computers Arts Society, as well as exhibiting at V&A Museum, Royal College of Art amongst many others. |
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Oliver Gingrich, is artist, creative director at MDH Hologram (musion.com), and producer at the collective Analema Group. Holding a doctorate in Digital Media from Centre of Digital Entertainment, and a MA in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins, his art focuses on the concept of ‘presence’ - transformative experiences that go beyond media. As creative director, he conjures the illusion of presence through holographic projection.
Oliver Gingrich displays across a range of different media, photography, digital art, acrylic on canvas and holographic projection. With the collective Analema Group, invisible phenomena are experienced visually, sensually, sonically resulting in immersive experiences for their audiences. In his photography series, the artist explores the themes of changing identities, spatial transformation and transcendence. https://olivergingrich.com/ |
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Aphra Shemza is a London-based multimedia artist and curator. She is also co-founder of Art in Flux and Manager of the Estate of Anwar Jalal Shemza (her grandfather). Inspired by her grandfather, her work explores Modernism, her Islamic cultural heritage, sustainable practice and creating art for all. As an artist and activist, she finds ambitious ways to fuse methodologies from the past with new innovations in technology to imagine what the role of art could be in the future.
Shemza has recently been awarded an Arts Council England Grant for her new project shemza.digital. The project invites the public to be a part of a new interactive artwork based on the work of Anwar Jalal Shemza and is a collaboration between Aphra Shemza and Stuart Batchelor. Shemza has created many commissions: Synphonica 2.0 for the Canary Wharf Group, Heart Beats of Cristal for Champagne Louis Roederer, Seconds Pass for Save the Children, GlaxoSmithKline and Anagram and Post-Truth and Beauty commissioned by Morley College. She exhibits regularly with recent highlights including V&A Digital Design Weekend, Winter Lights Festival, The Other Art Fair and Xi’an Maker Faire with the British Council. She has also participated in public speaking events, notably at Tate Britain, the British Library and The Courtauld Institute. In 2016 she contributed an article to Tate Etc magazine about the life and work of her grandfather and has received coverage in the Times, Telegraph, London Live, Timeout, GQ and FAD Magazine. |
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