This month’s FLUX event is set to the theme of public media art with a specific focus on environmental concerns. Artists have always been innovators and often lead the way forward for other industries to follow. With many artists today using the most radical technology available to them, how can we use the concepts of renewable, recycled and sustainable tech to create public works and what are the challenges that we face? Four media artists will discuss their experiences with regards to designing, building, researching and performing public media art.
Aphra Shemza is a FLUX host and a London based media artist working with abstraction, interactivity and light. Seeking to express herself through radical new technologies, Shemza’s work explores the way in which we might use these tools to imagine what the role of art could be in the future. The way in which the viewer responds to the work is key to how it is produced and it is through their presence that the works come to life creating active participation. In using these interactive devices Shemza’s work is accessible to everyone, no matter what their age, education or background. Shemza has recently produced a short academic paper about her research in conjunction with EVA entitled Public Interactive Art: Environmental Concerns, you can download a copy of her paper here.
Elizabeth Sandford Richardson / Apple Tart is a light based media artist working in a range of mediums: Experimental darkroom photography ‘Performergrams,’ Lenticulars, Digital Holography and Live Performance. The practice uses the concept of photography with focus on using holography and lenticulars performativity. She explores the notion of what can be seen as a performance space. This evening Elizabeth presented her series of work entitled Bare Facts.
Inessa Demidova is an architectural lighting designer and artist. Her background is working with architects to create atmospheres with lighting that convey architectural concepts through sensory inputs, which are beyond the consciously perceived. She is particularly interested in the intersections of meaning and aesthetics in built and human-made environments. At this event she presented her collaborative project with Jonas Johansson entitled Sunna.
Tom and Molly started making public art as Arts Republic in 2000. Their work can be seen every day in museums, parks and school playgrounds. They specialise in kinetic sculpture that moves by sun, water and wind power. And sometimes use recycled materials for making their sculpture.
Inessa Demidova is an architectural lighting designer and artist. Her background is working with architects to create atmospheres with lighting that convey architectural concepts through sensory inputs, which are beyond the consciously perceived. She is particularly interested in the intersections of meaning and aesthetics in built and human-made environments. At this event she presented her collaborative project with Jonas Johansson entitled Sunna.
Tom and Molly started making public art as Arts Republic in 2000. Their work can be seen every day in museums, parks and school playgrounds. They specialise in kinetic sculpture that moves by sun, water and wind power. And sometimes use recycled materials for making their sculpture.
