Biographical note
María Mencía PhD, digital artist and senior lecturer in Digital Media at Kingston University, London, UK. She holds a practice-based doctorate in Digital Poetics and Digital Art, a MA in History and Theory of Art from Chelsea College of Art, a BA in Fine Art from Camberwell College of Art, The University of the Arts-London, and an English Philology Degree from the Complutense University, Madrid, Spain. Phd title: From Visual Poetry to Digital Art: Image-Sound-Text, Convergent Media and the Development of New Media Languages.
Research interests: On going research on the area of the in- between the visual, the aural and the textual in the development of New Media Languages through the production of interactive multimedia and e-poetry pieces, interlaced textualities, moving signs and generative writing. Recent research on: Cityscapes: Social Poetics/Public Textualities, exploring public textualities in urban spaces and the use of the web as a creative space to engage the users in public urban displays (AHRC funded).
Profesional Experience (Recent)
2005-Present- Phd supervisor, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK
2 Oct 2006- PhD External Examiner VIVA, Gavin Stewart, A Homecoming Festival: The Application of the Dialogic Concepts of Addressivity and the Awareness of Participation to an Aesthetic of Computer-mediated Textual Art, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK
Sept.2005-March 06- Research Fellow, Promising Researcher Fellowship Kingston University & New York University (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Media Research Lab)
Nov. 2005- Residency at SUNY Buffalo Electronic-Poetry Centre, USA
March-June 2005- Visiting Academic, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Exhibitions and Papers
She exhibits and has performed nationally and internationally: Spain, England, Belgium, Holland, USA, Germany, Norway Cuba and Japan. She has published papers and translations and presented at national and international conferences.
Solo shows & performances
June 2004-..from Visual Poetry to Digital Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
Oct.01- Jan. 02-Settings, Medway Galleries, Gillingham, UK
August 2000- Consciousness Reframed, Consciousness and Hypertextual Narratives, Multimedia Performance-Presentation, CAiiA, Newport, Wales, UK
18-29 Oct.95- speaking in tongues, performance, double life exhibition, King Street-Studios, London, UK
Oct. 1993- Flag, International Performance Festival, Ojo Atomico, III FIARP, Madrid, Spain
May 1993- Performance, 3 Banners: I Miss You, Why Did You Leave? When Are You Coming Back? Camberwell Church Street, London, UK
Dec. 1992- Sculpture Performance: 7 Minutes of Passion, Syracuse, USA
Dec. 1992- $1.99 Installation, Shaffer Building, Syracuse, USA
Group shows & Festivals (selection since 1998)
August 2006 FILE Digital Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
June-July 2006 e-motive: Visual Poetry in the Digital Age, University of Essex Gallery, Colchester, UK
May 2006 CIRCA Puerto Rico 2006, First international Art Fair in the Caribbean and Central America. Curated by Elvis Fuentes.
March 2006 de-London, the Season of Media Arts, London
May 2004-Cambio Constante curated by Paco Simon from Arte en Orbita, Zaragoza, Spain.
May 2003-onedotzero Festival, ICA, London, UK
April 2003- e-poetry Festival 2003- West Virginia University, USA
Oct. 2002- ISEA 2002 [Orai] (International Symposium of Electronic Arts), Nagoya, Japan
July 2002- Write Your Mind, Stock Newington Festival, London, UK
June 2002- IV Salon Internacional de Arte Digital, Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Havana, Cuba
May 2002- DIFFERENTIA, Pitshanger Manor Gallery & House, London, UK
April 2002- La Huella Multiple, Havana, Cuba
Nov. 2001-02 Interrogating the Surface, Atkinson Gallery- Millfield and Millbank, London, UK
Oct. 2001- Showcase 1, Chelsea Millbank, London, UK
March 2001- Waterwall, projections on a 100 meter wall of waterspray participatory project with Copenhagen School, London, UK
Dec 2000- tow, Interventions-Artists working in electronic media, London, UK
Jan. 2000- Film & Video Marathon, ART IN GENERAL Gallery, New York, USA
Nov.1999- The London Artists’ Book Fair, Barbican Center, London, UK
July 1999- the chinese room, VOID Gallery, London, UK
June 1998- 14th International Hamburg Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany
May 1998- British and Norwegian Video and Performance Collaboration,
Bergen, Norway
Work Selected
Sept. 2002- Work selected as participant in the categories of Interactive Art and Animation, CyberArts 2002, International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica 2002.
Art Residencies
Sept-Oct2002- Mukojima Artist in Residence Programme, Tokyo, Japan.
Other Work experience
She has worked as an Artist Educator and Visiting Art Lecturer in galleries (South London Gallery, Pitshanger Gallery), art centers (ICA, Barbican, Watermans), schools, art colleges and media centers, she co-foundered IDEA (Innovation and Development in Educational Art). Main activities involved running workshops and residencies with educational groups and TAL (Community Arts Organisation established in February 2000, run and employed other artists in art education projects.
Awards and Scholarships
2006-Promising Researcher Fellowship, Kingston University, London in collaboration with NYU, New York
2005-AHRC (Small Grant for Creative and Performing Arts to support the project Cityscapes: Social Poetics/Public textualities)
2000-03- AHRB (Arts & Humanities Research Board) 3 years grant-PhD
2002- AHRB fund towards study field in Japan
2000- Year of the Artist Award, London Arts Board awarded TAL
1997- Arts for Everyone, Lottery Fund awarded IDEA
1992- Division of International Programs Abroad, Syracuse University, New York, USA. |