shemza.digital #1, 2021

Aphra Shemza & Stuart Batchelor in collaboration with the public

Medium: 3D Animation

Programming and 3D Design Christopher MacInnes

Directions for interaction below: Left-click and drag: Orbit | Right-click and drag: Move | Scroll: Zoom

In shemza.digital #1, Shemza and Batchelor held a competition in February 2021 for members of the public to submit their paintings to the online archive and have a chance to be one of the winners chosen to have their works turned into a new collaborative artwork. The artwork was created for the Art in Flux: Reclaimed online exhibition and launched at National Gallery X. This was an amazing opportunity for the public to have their work exhibited in an exhibition alongside some of the most radical media artists today. The winning paintings were exported as real-time animations of the painting process and hung in 3D space to form shemza.digital #1, the first in the series of collaborative works.

Shemza.digital competition winners as below:

‘Winter Ice’ by Isabella
‘A Comparison’ by Max Christiansen
‘Lavender’ by Nayyab Akram
‘A path to inner peace’ by Loulou
’Solar’ by Laura s.
’Tangency’ by Dark Parrot
‘Into the morning’ by Sakib Khan
‘Electric Blue’ by Daniela
‘Boggle, Biggie’ by Henry

Images: Installation shots from the Art in Flux: Reclaimed exhibition.