MADI BOYD | PHENOTYPICA | KIRA ZHIGALINA | ANALEMA GROUP
In this Flux Social we will be exploring health and wellbeing within the media arts. Our FLUX Socials are primarily for networking and making connections within the creative media arts community. Each event, artists meet and discuss their work with the audience. Hosted by our FLUX co-founders Maria Almena, Oliver Gingrich and Aphra Shemza, they will provide a relaxed space for the facilitation of networking and collaboration. In our intimate setting at the Library London, the audience will get the opportunity to meet key artists within the media art scene in London face to face and to discuss ideas, practices and preeminent concepts in today’s Media Arts.
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Information about the Speakers
Madi Boyd
Boyd’s work uses light, space and time as sculptural matter. She makes large immersive installations combining projected moving image and sculptural ‘screens’ that she designs and constructs. These screens often multiply and distort the image. Within her practice, she is especially interested in rethinking the filmic experience, with particular regard to the interaction of all the senses and to presenting film spatially, and how this affects perception of moving image. Tactility is an on-going preoccupation. She often works collaboratively with neuro-scientists and psychologists as much of the inspiration for her work comes from new research into the brain and perceptual system.
Her work has been exhibited at, among others, The Science Museum, London, The Science gallery, Dublin, Kinetica Art Fair, Art Laboratory Berlin, Germany, Puke Ariki Museum in New Plymouth, New Zealand, Guangzou Province, China, Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig, Germany, Science Discovery Centre, Kuala Lumpa, The Discovery Place, North Carolina, USA.
http://www.madiboyd.com/
Phenotypica
Phenotypica is an initiative created in 2016 by computer scientist Ben Murray and artist Neus Torres Tamarit. Our objective is to create evocative artworks and immersive experiences about science that engender an emotional response so that audiences react to scientific concepts and practice as a human experience.
We view both programming and art as intensely creative, intuitive and technical disciplines, and draw from both to give us a novel collaborative approach and artistic practice that attempts to remove the boundaries that too often separate science from the rest of human activity and reveal the creativity and beauty that is revealed by scientific discoveries.
Neus Torres Tamarit (MA Art and Science (Central Saint Martins, London)) has collaborated as an artist with the Tate Exchange at Tate Modern, and the Royal Society.
Ben Murray (MSc in Computer Science, University of Edinburgh), has a background in computer graphics, medical imaging and bioinformatics, amongst other fields. He is a Senior Research Associate at KCL, applying machine learning to oncology in a clinical setting.
https://phenotypica.org/
Analema Group
How do urban noises affect our physical, mental and emotional wellbeing? From 6-8 September a new participatory art project ‘KIMA: Noise’ will explore the effects of noise on well-being through an interactive installation at Maxilla Space, North Kensington. Visitors are invited to draw trajectories of noise and to experience these shapes as geometric sound sculptures in the gallery of Maxilla Space. Furthermore, audiences can feel urban noises as standing waves around them and view the visual expression of urban noise on a holographic display. The project brings together experts on urban noise such as Prof. Stephen Stansfeld, with local communities and the general public to exchange ideas and creative strategies for dealing with noise.
Analema Group is an arts collective, founded by Artistic Director – Evgenia Emets in 2010. The members of the collective include collaborators from various backgrounds. Evgenia Emets is an artist and poet, creating performance work on the intersection of poetry, language and sound. Dr. Alain Renaud specialises in sound installations and sound design. Oliver Gingrich is an artist and researcher working in the realm of media art and visual technologies. David Negrao works in visual programming.
We create experiences on the intersection between art and technology. Our mission is to reflect on the nature of perception, exploring the relationships between sound, colour, light, movement and form. Our participatory art fills the gap between performers and audiences, enabling them to question their senses and the boundaries of perception.
https://analemagroup.com/
Kira Zhigalina
Kira Zhigalina (b.Moscow) is an award-winning multimedia artist based in London. After graduating from Central Saint Martins and working primarily in film and video she became interested in incorporating technology to create immersive, expanding, and emotionally connecting experiences for the audiences. She began working on interactive biofeedback installation Symbiosis with engineer Adrian Godwin in 2014, developing sensors and light biofeedback, which extended into research on breathwork and diaphragmatic breathing entrainment. She has exhibited worldwide in places like The Tanks, Tate Modern, Kinetica Artfair, Leeds Light Festival, Symposium on New Technologies for Mindful Awareness and Wellbeing, and Yota Space Festival of new Technologies. (www.dotkira.com)
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Madi Boyd
Boyd’s work uses light, space and time as sculptural matter. She makes large immersive installations combining projected moving image and sculptural ‘screens’ that she designs and constructs. These screens often multiply and distort the image. Within her practice, she is especially interested in rethinking the filmic experience, with particular regard to the interaction of all the senses and to presenting film spatially, and how this affects perception of moving image. Tactility is an on-going preoccupation. She often works collaboratively with neuro-scientists and psychologists as much of the inspiration for her work comes from new research into the brain and perceptual system.
Her work has been exhibited at, among others, The Science Museum, London, The Science gallery, Dublin, Kinetica Art Fair, Art Laboratory Berlin, Germany, Puke Ariki Museum in New Plymouth, New Zealand, Guangzou Province, China, Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig, Germany, Science Discovery Centre, Kuala Lumpa, The Discovery Place, North Carolina, USA.
http://www.madiboyd.com/
Phenotypica
Phenotypica is an initiative created in 2016 by computer scientist Ben Murray and artist Neus Torres Tamarit. Our objective is to create evocative artworks and immersive experiences about science that engender an emotional response so that audiences react to scientific concepts and practice as a human experience.
We view both programming and art as intensely creative, intuitive and technical disciplines, and draw from both to give us a novel collaborative approach and artistic practice that attempts to remove the boundaries that too often separate science from the rest of human activity and reveal the creativity and beauty that is revealed by scientific discoveries.
Neus Torres Tamarit (MA Art and Science (Central Saint Martins, London)) has collaborated as an artist with the Tate Exchange at Tate Modern, and the Royal Society.
Ben Murray (MSc in Computer Science, University of Edinburgh), has a background in computer graphics, medical imaging and bioinformatics, amongst other fields. He is a Senior Research Associate at KCL, applying machine learning to oncology in a clinical setting.
https://phenotypica.org/
Analema Group
How do urban noises affect our physical, mental and emotional wellbeing? From 6-8 September a new participatory art project ‘KIMA: Noise’ will explore the effects of noise on well-being through an interactive installation at Maxilla Space, North Kensington. Visitors are invited to draw trajectories of noise and to experience these shapes as geometric sound sculptures in the gallery of Maxilla Space. Furthermore, audiences can feel urban noises as standing waves around them and view the visual expression of urban noise on a holographic display. The project brings together experts on urban noise such as Prof. Stephen Stansfeld, with local communities and the general public to exchange ideas and creative strategies for dealing with noise.
Analema Group is an arts collective, founded by Artistic Director – Evgenia Emets in 2010. The members of the collective include collaborators from various backgrounds. Evgenia Emets is an artist and poet, creating performance work on the intersection of poetry, language and sound. Dr. Alain Renaud specialises in sound installations and sound design. Oliver Gingrich is an artist and researcher working in the realm of media art and visual technologies. David Negrao works in visual programming.
We create experiences on the intersection between art and technology. Our mission is to reflect on the nature of perception, exploring the relationships between sound, colour, light, movement and form. Our participatory art fills the gap between performers and audiences, enabling them to question their senses and the boundaries of perception.
https://analemagroup.com/
Kira Zhigalina
Kira Zhigalina (b.Moscow) is an award-winning multimedia artist based in London. After graduating from Central Saint Martins and working primarily in film and video she became interested in incorporating technology to create immersive, expanding, and emotionally connecting experiences for the audiences. She began working on interactive biofeedback installation Symbiosis with engineer Adrian Godwin in 2014, developing sensors and light biofeedback, which extended into research on breathwork and diaphragmatic breathing entrainment. She has exhibited worldwide in places like The Tanks, Tate Modern, Kinetica Artfair, Leeds Light Festival, Symposium on New Technologies for Mindful Awareness and Wellbeing, and Yota Space Festival of new Technologies. (www.dotkira.com)
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This event is kindly hosted at the Library
