Artists:
Aphra Shemza | Analema Group | Kimatica Studio | Oliver Gingrich | Maria Almena
The Art in Flux founders introduce the ethos of the organisation and their own practices through live video tours. Kimatica Studio will share an overview of their career and insights on the creative process behind their new media performances and interactive digital installations. Aphra Shemza, a multimedia artist and activist will present a documentary of her light based and interactive sculpture exploring key themes within her practice. Analema Group will tour key projects, reflecting on relationships between sound, colour, light and movement. The event finishes with a guided tour of the online exhibition created exclusively for Ars Electronica.
The event will also be aired on Ars Electronica live stream channel on Saturday 12th at 6pm here: https://ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/live/channel2/
A special thanks to our FLUX artist community who will be featured in the Art in Flux film: Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm | Andy Lomas | Paul Friedlander | William Latham | Kimatica Studio | Analema Group | Aphra Shemza | Rachel Ara | Tom Wilkinson | Molly Richardson | Sofi LH | Stuart Batchelor | Sara Choudhrey | Mowgli | Laura Pando | Tilly Hogrebe | Oskar Krajewski | Becky Lyon | Ari Peralta | Christian Duka | Becky Stewart | Dr. Annahita Nezami | Nick Hunt | Kristina Dimitrova | Shuster + Moseley | Kira Zhigalina | Karel Bata | Shama Rahman | Terry Clark | Oliver Gingrich | Ben Johnson | Zarah Hussain
And the incredible photography of Sophie le Roux: https://www.sophielerouxdocu.com/
About the Artists:
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.
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
https://olivergingrich.com/about/
https://analemagroup.com/
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.
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
https://olivergingrich.com/about/
https://analemagroup.com/
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.