Images: shemza.digital #3, 2021, Kimatica, Metaverse Divinations, Olive Gingrich & Shama Rahman, Zeitgeist.
Founded in 2016 by the artists Maria Almena, Aphra Shemza and Olive Gingrich, Art in Flux is a community interest company committed to furthering the development of the media arts community in the UK. As an artist-led forum, Art in Flux offers a space for collaboration and exchange as key artists and organizations come together to profile their work. Through talks, events, performances, workshops, commissions and exhibitions, Art in Flux brings these ideas to the wider public - providing a fluid platform to discuss strategies, processes and collective themes within the media arts.
For Deep AI Art Fair Art in Flux presented the work of Aphra Shemza, Kimatica, Olive Gingrich, Shama Rahman and Stuart Batchelor. The exhibition included 3D printed sculpture, NFTs, VR and interactive artworks and limited edition prints available for sale.
More info about the fair here: https://www.deeep.art/
For Deep AI Art Fair Art in Flux presented the work of Aphra Shemza, Kimatica, Olive Gingrich, Shama Rahman and Stuart Batchelor. The exhibition included 3D printed sculpture, NFTs, VR and interactive artworks and limited edition prints available for sale.
More info about the fair here: https://www.deeep.art/
Images from the Deep AI Art Fair PV photography by Sophie le Roux.
Artworks
shemza.digital
shemza.digital #3, 2021 Price: NFS Aphra Shemza & Stuart Batchelor in collaboration with the public. Programming 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. www.shemza.digital @shemza.digital 
Olive Gingrich & Shama Rahman (IO)
Zeitgeist, 2021 Price: £544 BUY HERE Algorithmic Art. Aluminium C-Print. Limited Edition (1/20 + artist proof) 14.7 W x 8.4 H x 0.8 D inch Zeitgeist, developed by the artists/researchers Dr Olive Gingrich and Dr Shama Rahman (IO), uses deep learning algorithms to indicate ‘Flow’, turning the artwork into an interface of creative collaborative practices. Zeitgeist measures whether audiences are in a Flow mental state, a state of increased creative stimulation, reduced stress and increased relaxation. Zeitgeist analyses this data and represents Flow states as visual cues - a process called ‘nudging’. Lighter colours and more complex forms represent a heightened state of Flow. Visual cues provide information on Flow as measured via an EEG – an electroencephalogram which records brain activity. NeuroCreate's proprietary deep-learning algorithm compares these inputs to a brainwave signature pattern of Flow. This sculpture represents Flow mental states of the artists creatively collaborating, compared against brainwave signature patterns of FLOW identified by Dr. Rahman during her doctorate and now developed further with her startup NeuroCreate's Flow classification. www.olivergingrich.com @olive_m_gingrich www.neurocreate.co.uk @shama rahman 
Olive Gingrich & Shama Rahman (IO)
Zeitgeist, 2021 Price: £630 BUY HERE 3D printed Neuro-Art Sculpture Limited Edition 30 x 15 x 15 cm Zeitgeist, developed by the artists/researchers Dr Olive Gingrich and Dr Shama Rahman (IO), uses deep learning algorithms to indicate ‘Flow’, turning the artwork into an interface of creative collaborative practices. Zeitgeist measures whether audiences are in a Flow mental state, a state of increased creative stimulation, reduced stress and increased relaxation. Zeitgeist analyses this data and represents Flow states as visual cues - a process called ‘nudging’. Lighter colours and more complex forms represent a heightened state of Flow. Visual cues provide information on Flow as measured via an EEG – an electroencephalogram which records brain activity. NeuroCreate's proprietary deep-learning algorithm compares these inputs to a brainwave signature pattern of Flow. This sculpture represents Flow mental states of the artists creatively collaborating, compared against brainwave signature patterns of FLOW identified by Dr. Rahman during her doctorate and now developed further with her startup NeuroCreate's Flow classification. www.olivergingrich.com @olive_m_gingrich www.neurocreate.co.uk @shama rahman 
Aphra Shemza
Totem I.II (red), 2019 Price: £300 BUY HERE Hahnemühle Pearl® Museum-grade Fine Art Giclée paper 39x49x1.5cm (framed), 29.7x42x0.1cm (unframed) Limited edition of 100 Totem I.II is from the Totem series. It is a fine art print created from an original light art work. The Totem series uses traditional sculpting techniques, organic materials and technology; creating a balance between these conflicting entities. By using the word Totem, the artist creates a spiritual reference fusing the idea of a natural emblem with geometry and creating these monuments for our times. They serve to highlight our connection to one another, technology and the digital world that we find ourselves in today. Looking towards the future and what the possibilities of this hybrid nature could be. www.aphrashemza.com @aphrashemza 
Aphra Shemza
Totem I.II (yellow), 2019 Price: £300 BUY HERE Hahnemühle Pearl® Museum-grade Fine Art Giclée paper 39x49x1.5cm (framed), 29.7x42x0.1cm (unframed) Limited edition of 100 Totem I.II is from the Totem series. It is a fine art print created from an original light art work. The Totem series uses traditional sculpting techniques, organic materials and technology; creating a balance between these conflicting entities. By using the word Totem, the artist creates a spiritual reference fusing the idea of a natural emblem with geometry and creating these monuments for our times. They serve to highlight our connection to one another, technology and the digital world that we find ourselves in today. Looking towards the future and what the possibilities of this hybrid nature could be. www.aphrashemza.com @aphrashemza |
Kimatica Studio
Metaverse Divinations, The Light and Shadow Guardians, 2021 Price: 1.8 ETH each BUY HERE NFT (Video / Performance / Generative graphics / AR) NFT #1: 1080x1080 video loop. 28 seconds. Edition 1/1 NFT #2: 1080x1080 video loop. 19 seconds. Edition 1/1 Kimatica’s first NFTs have been created with the support of Arts Council England. These artworks constitute an exploration into methods for creating innovative mixed reality performative experiences, representing new contemporary rituals that enhance interconnectedness and inspire introspection. Multiverse Divinations is a series of augmented reality ritualistic performances. Kimatica have used ritual design as a framework for creating this performative series in which characters and scenes represent light and shadow archetypes, exploring the collective subconscious, contemporary altars and dream-like states. It draws on the constant inner battle between lights and shadows, creating a space where to reflect into all the aspects of our subconscious mind in order to achieve spiritual balance. Each piece has been created in real-time during a recording session with the performers using Kimatica’s self-developed augmented reality system; no visual effects were added in post-production. The visuals respond to the presence, colour and movement of the performative scene. These art pieces are also available as an interactive installation. Email [email protected] for more information. www.kimatica.net @kimaticastudio 
Kimatica Studio
Simulacrum & Transcendence VR, 2021 Price: Sculpture only £980 with QR to VR experience £1,550 BUY HERE 3D printed sculpture in resin and hand painted & QR to a VR sculpture with a 360 video. 135mm x 135mm x 115mm. 360 video length 6 min. “Simulacrum” 3D printed sculpture is exploring the META identity of a performative artwork created in collaboration with Eva Sbariani. It is recreating a performative scene that has been captured by photogrammetry, transformed into a 3D piece and then 3D printed. It represents Kimatica’s first media performances, featuring their iconic multiface headpiece made by tradicional bodycasting techniques in order to capture the detail of human emotions. The performer is in a relaxed meditation position, intending to inspire the audience to connect with their inner world. “Transcendence VR” is a META art piece including a 3D scanned performative sculpture and a 360-degree video of a live performance. It is recreating a God-like human statue that is intending to take the audience into a journey to their subconscious mind via the 360 live performance. This artwork is part of the wider Transcendence project, an interdisciplinary performance practice-research project, exploring how the combination of live performance arts and interactive technologies can induce altered states of consciousness. We offer live performances and immersive experiences, so If you would like to know more about this please email us at [email protected] www.kimatica.net @kimaticastudio 
Olive Gingrich & Shama Rahman (IO)
Zeitgeist, 2021 Price: 0.5ETH / 0.8 ETH BUY HERE NFT | HD This is the world’s first NFT drop in AI-classified neuro-art. Zeitgeist, developed by the artists/researchers Dr Olive Gingrich and Dr Shama Rahman (IO), uses deep learning algorithms to indicate ‘Flow’, turning the artwork into an interface of creative collaborative practices. Zeitgeist measures whether audiences are in a Flow mental state, a state of increased creative stimulation, reduced stress and increased relaxation. Zeitgeist analyses this data and represents Flow states as visual cues - a process called ‘nudging’. Lighter colours and more complex forms represent a heightened state of Flow. Visual cues provide information on Flow as measured via an EEG – an electroencephalogram which records brain activity. NeuroCreate's proprietary deep-learning algorithm compares these inputs to a brainwave signature pattern of Flow. This sculpture represents Flow mental states of the artists creatively collaborating, compared against brainwave signature patterns of FLOW identified by Dr. Rahman during her doctorate and now developed further with her startup NeuroCreate's Flow classification. www.olivergingrich.com @olive_m_gingrich www.neurocreate.co.uk @shama rahman 
Aphra Shemza
Totem I.II (pink), 2019 Price: £300 BUY HERE Hahnemühle Pearl® Museum-grade Fine Art Giclée paper 39x49x1.5cm (framed), 29.7x42x0.1cm (unframed) Limited edition of 100 Totem I.II is from the Totem series. It is a fine art print created from an original light art work. The Totem series uses traditional sculpting techniques, organic materials and technology; creating a balance between these conflicting entities. By using the word Totem, the artist creates a spiritual reference fusing the idea of a natural emblem with geometry and creating these monuments for our times. They serve to highlight our connection to one another, technology and the digital world that we find ourselves in today. Looking towards the future and what the possibilities of this hybrid nature could be. 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.
For Deep AI Art Fair Aphra presents shemza.digital #3, a new interactive artwork from the shemza.digital project. 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 is displayed as an interactive screen.
Aphra will also present limited edition prints from her Totem series that are available for sale. Purchase prints here.
For Deep AI Art Fair Aphra presents shemza.digital #3, a new interactive artwork from the shemza.digital project. 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 is displayed as an interactive screen.
Aphra will also present limited edition prints from her Totem series that are available for sale. Purchase prints here.
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.
Dr Shama Rahman is a scientist, artist, creative technologist and futurist. She holds a PhD in the neuroscience and complex systems of Creative Cognition and Innovation and her work has encompassed the use of wearable technology to enhance storytelling. She is the co-author of a book chapter ‘Creativity in the Twenty First Century: Multidisciplinary Contributions to the Science of Creative Thinking’ by Springer.
