Helen Starr (TT/UK) is a Afro-Carib curator, producer and cultural activist from Trinidad, WI. She began curating exhibitions with artists such as Susan Hillier, Cindy Sherman and Marcel Duchamp in 1995. Helen founded The Mechatronic Library in 2010, to give marginalised artists access to technologies such as Game Engines, Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR). Helen has worked with many public institutions such as Wysing Art Centre, FACT, Liverpool and QUAD in Derby. Being Indigenous-American Helen is interested in how digital artforms transform our understanding of reality by world-building narratives through storytelling and counter-storytelling. How, by “naming one’s own reality” we can experience the Other. Helen is on the board of QUAD, Derby and in 2020 she co-founded DAAD Futurism with Amrita Dhallu and Salma Noor.

Talks

• Workshop: Animation Theory and Practice
• Artist Position – Helen Starr: Performing Rendered Realities
• Prix Forum: Golden Nica – Ayoung Kim
• Prix Forum: Award of Distinction – Bassam Issa
• Prix Forum: Award of Distinction – SANGHEE