MARIA MENCIA

Maria Mencia is a London based artist and a PhD researcher in The London Institute. Works as an Artist Educator, Art Consultant and Visiting Art Lecturer in galleries, art centres, schools, art colleges and media centres. She is co-founder of IDEA (Innovation and Development in Educational Art); main activities involve running workshops and residencies with educational groups. And TAL, Community Arts Organisation established in February 2000, runs and employs other artists in art education and public art projects.

m.mencia@freeuk.com
www.m.mencia.freeuk.com

PhD research Project:
From Visual Poetry to Digital Art: The interweaving of the visual, the aural and the semantic elements of text in the production of new media languages.

EDUCATION

2000-present Digital Media practice based- PhD Research Student
From Visual Poetry to Digital Art
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
1996-1998 MA History and Theory of Art
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
1990-1993 BA Joint Honours in Fine Art and Metal Work
Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK
1978-1983 Postgraduate in English Philology
Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

EXHIBITIONS

Solo shows & performances

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)

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 metre 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 Centre, 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-Oct 2002 Mukoujima Artist in Residence Programme, Tokyo, Japan.

CONFERENCES and PRESENTATIONS

April 2003 CADE Conference, The Language of Image, Sound, Text in New Media Art, Hull School of Art and Design, UK
April 2003 NJIT (New Jersey Institute of Technology)- New Media Performance Series 2003, USA
April 2003 e-poetry festival 2003, West Virginia University, USA
Jan. 2003 Digital Surface, University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland
Jan. 2003 Media Centre, Helsinki, Finland
Nov 2002 IV Jornadas de Arte y Multimedia, CaixaForum- Mediateca, Generating Chirography, Barcelona, Spain
Aug. 2002 BEAP Biennial of Electronic Arts, CAiiA-STAR CONSCIOUSNESS REFRAMED IV, ON-OFF LINE: Another Kind of Language, Perth, Australia
July 2002 Radical (Research Agendas developed in Creative Arts Labs) Festival SMARTlab Centre & Central St. Martins College of Art and Design,
London, UK
April 2002 La Huella Multiple, Birds Singing other Birds Songs, Havana, Cuba
Feb. 2002 The London Institute Research Symposium, London, UK
Nov. 2001 Settings conference, Kent Institute of Art & Design, Kent, UK
October 2001 Vocaleyes, Showcase 1, Chelsea Millbank, London, UK
April 2001 CADE Conference, Poster presentation, Glasgow, UK
March 2001 Vocaleyes, Seminar in Semiotic Concepts for Practice-Based Research, Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK
August 2000 Consciousness Reframed Conference, CAiiA (Centre for Advance Inquiry in the Interactive Arts) Newport, Wales, UK

PUBLISHED PAPERS AND TRANSLATIONS

July 2003 Image-Sound-Text: The Multiplicity of Forms, Research@chelsea
April 2003 The Language of Image, Sound, Text in New Media Art, CADE, Hull School of Art and Design, UK
Nov. 2002 Generating Chirography, <www.mediatecaonline.com>
August 2002 ON-OFF LINE: Another Kind of Language, CAiiA-STAR & Curtin University Research Conference: CONSCIOUSNESS REFRAMED, Perth, Australia
Nov.2001 CAN YOU REPEAT, PLEASE? A chronology of mis-understandings/mis-readings /mis-hearings … Interrogating the Surface CD ROM
May 1999 Cuban art exhibition catalogue: Trabajando P’al Inglé by Orlando Hernandez.
Translation (Spanish into English)
March 1995 Exchanging Values by Juan Vicente Aliaga on Cildo Meireles, Art Magazine Frieze,
Translation (Spanish into English)

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

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.

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