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​ABOUT

Art in Flux CIC was founded in 2016 at Lights of Soho gallery in London by the artists Maria Almena, Olive Gingrich and Aphra Shemza. Art in Flux is a community interest company committed to furthering the development of the media arts in the UK. We have a specific focus on under-represented groups such as artists who identify as Neurodiverse, BAME, LGBTQIA+ and women in technology. As an artist-led forum, Art in Flux offers a space for collaboration and exchange as key artists and organisations come together to profile their work. By collaborating with major institutions such as; National Gallery X and the V&A Museum, Art in Flux creates talks, exhibitions, performances, workshops and bespoke digital art commissions to brings these ideas to the wider public, championing innovation in UK arts and culture. 

Art in Flux provides a fluid platform to discuss strategies, processes and collective themes within the media arts and 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.

Art in Flux is supported by the Arts Council of England.

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​ART IN FLUX TEAM: DIRECTORS & CURATORS

Aphra Shemza
​www.aphrashemza.com

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. In her curatorial practice with Art in Flux her focus is on cultural heritage and ecology in the media arts.

Selected:
Commissions:   Canary Wharf Group , Champagne Louis Roederer, Save the Children & Morley College.
Exhibitions: V&A Digital Design Weekend, Winter Lights Festival, The Other Art Fair and Xi’an with the British Council. 
Talks: National Gallery X, Tate Britain, British Library and the Courtauld Institute.
Press: Tate Etc, Times, Telegraph, London Live, Timeout, GQ and FAD Magazine. 

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 | 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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ART IN FLUX BIOGRAPHY

Events
Upcoming:
Flux Live: Visual Sound, curated by Olive Gingrich, 15th July 2021.
Flux Social, August 2021 - date TBC
Transcendence, curated by Maria Almena in collaboration with National Gallery X, 28th September 2021.
Radical Ecology, curated by Aphra Shemza in collaboration with National Gallery X, 23rd November 2021.

2021:
Practice & Research, Flux Social @ EVA London, 7th July 2021.
Flux Live presents Kimatica Masterclass, curated by Olive Gingrich, 26th June 2021.
The Invisible, curated by Olive Gingrich, in collaboration with National Gallery X, 1st June 2021.
Reclaimed, curated by Maria Almena, Olive Gingrich & Aphra Shemza in collaboration with National Gallery X, 30th March 2021.

2020:
Shifting Ground, curated by Aphra Shemza, in collaboration with National Gallery X, 18th November 2020.
Levitations, curated by Maria Almena, in collaboration with National Gallery X, 29th September 2020.
Flux Live: Autonomy, curated by Maria Almena, in collaboration with Ars Electronica, 11th September 2020.
Flux Social: Publics, curated by Olive Gingrich, 23rd August, 2020.
Flux Live: AV, curated by Aphra Shemza, 18th August, 2020.
Flux Live: New Heritage, curated by Olive Gingrich, 23rd July, 2020.
Flux Social: Networks, curated by Maria Almena, 30th June, 2020.
Gender*uck, curated by Olive Gingrich, in collaboration with National Gallery X, 16th June 2020.
Flux Social: Live, curated by Aphra Shemza, 28th May 2020.
Flux Social: Presence, curated by Olive Gingrich, 30th April 2020.
Flux Social: Together, curated by Maria Almena, 2nd April 2020.

2019:
Levitations, curated by Maria Almena, Central st. martins, 27th November 2019.
Flux Social: Multiplicity, curated by Olive Gingrich, The Library Club, 15th October 2019.
Flux Social: Networks, curated by Aphra Shemza, The Library Club, 25th September 2019.
Flux Social: Flow, curated by Olive Gingrich, The Library Club, 28th August 2019.
Invasive Media, curated by Olive Gingrich, Royal College of Art, 15th July 2019..
Event Two Prequel, EVA Conference, 9th July 2019.
Flux Social: Artificial Design, curated by Olive Gingrich, The Library Club, 25th June 2019.
Radical Ecology, curated by Aphra Shemza, Ugly Duck, 23rd June 2019.
Flux Social: Transformations, curated by Maria Almena, The Library Club, 21st May 2019.
Flux Social, The Library Club, 30th April 2019.
Flux Social, The Library Club, 26th March 2019.
Flux Social, The Library Club, 19th February 2019.
Flux Social, The Library Club, 29th January 2019.

2018:
Embodiment of Technology, curated by Maria Almena, The Library Club, 20th November 2018.
Networks, curated by Aphra Shemza, The Library Club, 24th October 2018.
Post-/Human, curated by Olive Gingrich, The Library Club, 26th September 2018.
Flux panel, chaired by Aphra Shemza, Goldsmiths, 8th September 2018.
Site Specific Art, curated by Aphra Shemza, The Library Club, 18th July 2018.
Flux panel, EVA conference, July 2018.
New Social Sculpture, curated by Aphra Shemza, The Library Club, 2nd May 2018.
Transcendence, curated by Maria Almena, The Library Club, 26th March 2018.

2017:
Public Media Art, curated by Aphra Shemza, Lights of Soho, 31st May 2017.
Simulacrum, curated by Olive Gingrich, Lights of Soho, 28th March 2017.
Transformations, curated by Maria Almena, Lights of Soho, 31st January 2017.

2016:
Light, curated by Aphra Shemza, Lights of Soho, 21st November 2016.
In Motion, curated by Olive Gingrich, Lights of Soho, 25th October 2016.
Reflections, curated by Maria Almena, Lights of Soho, 23rd August 2016.
The beginning, Lights of Soho, 27th July.

Exhibitions
Upcoming:
Art in Flux, The Other Art Fair, 6th-11th July 2021

2021:
Reclaimed virtual exhibition at Kensington and Chelsea Art Week, curated by Maria Almena, Olive Gingrich & Aphra Shemza24th June - 4th July 2021.
Art in Flux, CADAF, curated by Maria Almena, Olive Gingrich & Aphra Shemza17th-23rd June 2021.
Reclaimed virtual exhibition, curated by Maria Almena, Olive Gingrich & Aphra Shemza, Art in Flux, 30th March - 30th April 2021.

2020:
Art in Flux: Media Arts Now, curated by Maria Almena, Olive Gingrich & Aphra Shemza, designed by Aphra Shemza, featured in KCAW, Ars Electronica and Watermans Digital Weekender, 9th September - 22nd November 2020.
Gender*uck online exhibition, curated by Olive Gingrich, designed by Aphra Shemza, launched June 2020.


2019:
Event Two at the V&A Digital Design Weekend, curated by Aphra Shemza, 21st-22nd September 2019.
Art in Flux at Event Two, curated by Maria Almena, Olive Gingrich & Aphra Shemza, Royal College of Art, 12th-17th July 2019.
Radical Ecology, curated by Aphra Shemza, Ugly Duck, 23rd June 2019.
Intelligent Matter, ACAVA, 23rd - 26th May 2019.

2018:
Ayah - Sign, curated by Olive Gingrich & Sara Choudhrey, ACAVA, 28th June - 1st July 2018.
Art in Flux: Experiments in media arts now, curated by Maria Almena, Olive Gingrich & Aphra Shemza, Ugly Duck, 31st May- 3rd June 2018.

2017:
Illusions, curated by Maria Almena, Dalston Boys Club, 14th December 2017.
Flux Relaunch, curated by Maria Almena, Olive Gingrich & Aphra Shemza, Dalston Boys Club, 5th October 2017.

Workshops:
2021:
Shemza.digital with Aphra Shemza, Norden Farm Arts Centre, 2nd April 2021.
Interactive Visuals with Nestor Rubio, SPACE & South East Creatives, 27th January 2021.
Collaborative Media Performance with Maria Almena, SPACE & South East Creatives, 26th January 2021.

2019:
Painting with code with Stuart Batchelor, V&A Museum and Royal College of Art, September and July 2019.
How to create a successful conference paper with Graham Diprose, Ugly Duck, January 2019.

2018:
Ayah-Sign with Sara Choudhrey, ACAVA, June 2018.
Magic Mirror Workshop with NeonM3, Ugly Duck, June 2018.

Commissions:
2021:
#Mood with Stuart Batchelor & Aphra Shemza for Culture Mile, Launched May 2021.

2019:
Event Two at the V&A Digital Design Weekend, curated by Aphra Shemza, 21st-22nd September, 2019.

2018:
Ayah - Sign, Olive Gingrich and Sara Choudhrey in collaboration with the grenfell community, ACAVA, 28th June - 1st July 2018.