Aphra Shemza & Stuart Batchelor in collaboration with the public
shemza.digital #3, 2021
Interactive digital painting application and real time animation | Dimensions variable
Programming by Peter Todd
The shemza.digital project is based on the work of Aphra Shemza’s grandfather, the well known British/Pakistani painter Anwar Jalal Shemza. In the last 10 years there has been a rethinking of British Art History and migrant artists like Anwar Jalal Shemza are being given the recognition that they deserve. In shemza.digital Aphra Shemza and Stuart Batchelor have used participatory art as a way to highlight Anwar Shemza’s work to the public and ask them to become actively involved in artmaking by becoming artists themselves.
For shemza.digital #3 Shemza and Batchelor have created a digital painting application that is hosted online, where the public is invited to create their own digital paintings and watch them come to life in the real time animation. The artwork can be displayed on a projector or screen depending on the space available.
For shemza.digital #3 Shemza and Batchelor have created a digital painting application that is hosted online, where the public is invited to create their own digital paintings and watch them come to life in the real time animation. The artwork can be displayed on a projector or screen depending on the space available.
About the artists:
Aphra Shemza
https://www.aphrashemza.com/ | @aphrashemza
Aphra Shemza is a UK-based multimedia artist. She is the granddaughter of the well-known abstract painter Anwar Jalal Shemza. 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 been commissioned by and worked with: Barbican, Tate Britain, V&A, National Gallery X, British Library, Arts Council of England, Canary Wharf Group, Louis Roederer, Save The Children, Morley College, Winter Lights Festival, The Other Art Fair, Electronic Virtual Arts Conference, Ars Electronica Festival, Xi’an Maker Faire, The Courtauld Institute, Times, Telegraph, London Live, Time Out, FAD Magazine, GQ, Tower Eastbourne, Poole Museum, Norden Farm, Watermans, NCCA, Bournemouth University, Kensington + Chelsea Art Week, Coventry City Council, Art in Flux, Woodcraft Folk, DINA, The Margate School and The Festival of Curiosity. |
Stuart Batchelor
https://www.sfbatchelor.com/ | @sfbatchelor_
Stuart Batchelor is a software artist who combines computer graphics and creative coding with drawing and painting to make captivating visuals, applications and installations.
Utilising a fusion of rich textures, dynamic compositions and vibrant colours, Batchelor’s style delves into the space between computer and human, gestural and algorithmic. He continuously looks to apply his foundation in building experimental software to new mediums and with new collaborators. His work often centers around themes of the subconscious, creativity, modernity and our emotional response to art, patterns and structure. Parallel to his artwork, Batchelor actively publishes research on enhancing creativity with computation - developing tools and technology alongside art that aid in the expressive potential of computers. |