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Helen Starr
Helen Starr (TT) is an Afro-Carib curator, producer and cultural activist from Trinidad, West Indies. She began curating exhibitions with artists such as Susan Hiller, Cindy Sherman and Marcel Duchamp in 1995. Helen founded The Mechatronic Library in 2010 to give marginalized artists access to technologies such as game engines, virtual reality (VR) and 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 Computer Animation Jury for Ars Electronica, Linz. In 2020, she developed the concept of a Fluid or DAAD Futurism with Amrita Dhallu and Salma Noor.