María Mencía

Dr. María Mencía, is a digital artist and senior lecturer in Digital Media at Kingston University, London, UK as well as a visiting academic at the RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.  She holds a practice-based doctorate in Digital Poetics and Digital Art, University of the Arts - London (The London Institute), a Chelsea College of Art MA in History and Theory of Art, and two degrees one in Fine Art at Camberwell College of Art - London and the other in English Philology at the Complutense University, Madrid, Spain.  Her Phd title is: from Visual Poetry to Digital Art: Image-Sound-Text, Convergent Media and the Development of New Media Languages.  Dr Mencia’s research interests are the area 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.  She exhibits and has performed nationally and internationally in Spain, England, Belgium, Holland, USA, Germany, Norway Cuba and Japan. She has published papers and translations and presented at national and international conferences.  Her most recent solo show was in June 2004: from Visual Poetry to Digital Art, at Chelsea College of Art and Design.  Dr Mencia 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 is co-founder of IDEA (Innovation and Development in Educational Art).

Taken from http://www.m.mencia.freeuk.com

Birds Singing Other Birds’ Songs, 2001 by María Mencía,

monitor-based work, courtesy of the artist © 2001, María Mencía 

Still image. See visual poem at: http://www.m.mencia.freeuk.com