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​ABOUT
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Founded in 2016 at Light of Soho gallery in London by the artists Maria Almena, Oliver Gingrich and Aphra Shemza, FLUX is a charitable organisation committed to furthering the development of the media arts community in the UK. As an artist-led forum, FLUX offers a space for collaboration and exchange as key artists and organisations come together to profile their work. Through talks events, performance evenings, workshops and exhibitions, FLUX brings these ideas to the wider public - providing a fluid platform to discuss strategies, processes and collective themes within the media arts. FLUX is committed to the ever-changing needs of media artists working right NOW in the UK and will remain in a dynamic state of change in order to facilitate them.

Our larger talks events are curated by one of the hosts and facilitate the exchange of ideas, as media artists come together to profile their work. These larger events offer a space for the exchange of creativity, inspiration and support. Smaller “social” events, are also hosted encouraging networks and collaborations between creatives. They are focused on artistic practice and operate with an open doors policy for all media artists wishing to present work in progress and are looking for some valuable feedback and advice on their work.

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​ABOUT THE FOUNDERS
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Aphra Shemza
​www.aphrashemza.com

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.

She exhibits regularly with recent highlights including V&A Digital Design Weekend, Winter Lights Festival and Xi’an Maker Faire in China with the British Council. She has also participated in public speaking events, notably at Tate Britain, the British Library and The Courtauld Institute.

In 2018 she launched www.art-ology.co.uk, a peer resource for artists who wish to be mindful of their environmental impact with the support of SPACE. Her research about sustainability in the media arts has been published by the Electronic Visual Arts conference in London, and she now sits on their organising committee. She also contributed an article to Tate Etc magazine in 2016.

Oliver Gingrich
Musion & Analema Group

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.

Maria Almena
Kimatica Studio | www.kimatica.net

​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.
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