APHRA SHEMZA | ANALEMA GROUP | ANDY LOMAS | KIMATICA STUDIO | MOWGLI | OLIVER M GINGRICH | PAUL FRIEDLANDER
SHAMA RAHMAN | SHUSTER + MOSELEY | TIM MURRAY-BROWNE | WILLIAM LATHAM
Art in Flux presents a new virtual exhibition.
SHAMA RAHMAN | SHUSTER + MOSELEY | TIM MURRAY-BROWNE | WILLIAM LATHAM
Art in Flux presents a new virtual exhibition.
The exhibition was hosted by Ars Electronica Festival 9th-13th September, the Kensington and Chelsea Art Week 1st - 11th October and Watermans Digital Weekender 21st-22nd November 2020.
Art in Flux is a not-for-profit organisation committed to furthering the development of the media arts community in the UK. Our virtual exhibition provides key insights about the organisation featuring archival images and a video from our program over the last 4 years. The Art in Flux selection also includes works by Mowgli, Andy Lomas, Paul Friedlander, Shama Rahman, Shuster + Moseley and William Latham, artists from our media arts community in the UK.
As an artist-led platform, the organisation’s founders, Aphra Shemza, Maria Almena and Oliver Gingrich, use their work as a starting point for the research and curation of the yearly program. The exhibition will showcase works from the Art in Flux founders that demonstrate the breadth of their unique artistic practices and highlight the relevant themes that the organisation’s program is based upon - such as Flow, Transformation and Ecology.
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Aphra Shemza is a London based multimedia artist exploring the impact and legacy of technology on our world. Working with abstraction, interactivity and light, Shemza combines traditional sculpting techniques with the latest technology to create her work. Shemza’s work is multidisciplinary making reference to Modernism with a renewed optimism.
Shemza has created both public and private 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. In 2019 she was awarded the Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice Grant for her project Solutions for a Sustainable Art Practice. In this bespoke artist development programme, Shemza looked at sustainable alternatives to create her work. In 2018 she launched www.art-ology.co.uk, a peer resource for artists who wish to be mindful of their environmental impact. Her research on sustainability in the media arts has been published by the Electronic Visual Arts conference in London, and she now sits on their organising committee.
Shemza has created both public and private 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. In 2019 she was awarded the Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice Grant for her project Solutions for a Sustainable Art Practice. In this bespoke artist development programme, Shemza looked at sustainable alternatives to create her work. In 2018 she launched www.art-ology.co.uk, a peer resource for artists who wish to be mindful of their environmental impact. Her research on sustainability in the media arts has been published by the Electronic Visual Arts conference in London, and she now sits on their organising committee.
Maria Almena is a creative director and a multimedia artist, co-founder of the London-based creative studio, Kimatica Studio. An UK pioneer studio in digital performances, their artistic practise explores concepts of human consciousness and perception, making those transcendental ideas accessible to a modern audience, to inspire reconnection with the magical thinking.
Maria's practice research is about the physical and spiritual, virtual and real worlds, and contemporary rituals and passions. She enjoys playing with visual perceptions, intending to transport the viewer into new worlds, to dramatise the transition between states of consciousness and highlighting the importance of the journey in itself. She use the human body as key to explore these ideas, transforming, mutating and searching for answers in our own canvas.
Maria's practice research is about the physical and spiritual, virtual and real worlds, and contemporary rituals and passions. She enjoys playing with visual perceptions, intending to transport the viewer into new worlds, to dramatise the transition between states of consciousness and highlighting the importance of the journey in itself. She use the human body as key to explore these ideas, transforming, mutating and searching for answers in our own canvas.
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.
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.