MELISSA BLISS

RECENT PROJECTS

PAST PROJECTS

TALKS, PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

WRITING

RECENT PROJECTS

Hidden Histories: Common land and squatting in Hackney [2011]
A collaborative guided tour with Past Tense. Part of the Hackney Fringe Festival.

Piccadilly Community Centre [2011]
A weekly Laptop Café for older people at the Piccadilly Community Centre, an installtion in Hauser & Wirth. This were open sessions for older people to explore computers and mobile phones.

Artists' Lottery Syndicate [2010-11]
Participant in Ellie Harrison's Artists' Lottery Syndicate project.

PROJECTS

Residency at Chelsea College, University of the Arts London [2010-11]
During my residency I created work in and about Millbank, the area around the College. This culminated in a gudie tour, Snipe Hunting, in June 2011 and work shown in the group exhibition Shall/Will at Camberwell Space, in March - April 2011.

Bed-In for Esperanto [2010]
An Esperanto day as part of the John and Yoko Bed-In re-enactment at the Bluecoat, Liverpool

Bird-Song [2010]
A community sound installation made in Portland, Dorset for the b-Side Festival

What Do We Want? [2010]
I held a demo chants workshop & performance for the Accidental Festival 2010 at BAC (Battersea Arts Centre) on Sunday 30 May 2010

Things We Get Confused [2009]
I initiated a public conversation with an invited group of people about the things we each get confused. The discussion covered confusion, memory, dreams, knowledge and desire. Part of Five Years Gallery's Interrupted Correspondence at the James Taylor Gallery

Hinterland [2009]
A scratch and sniff documentary made in Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire for the North SEAS Festival and Beacon Art Project

International Vegetable Bingo [2009]
A performance for Tasty! at the Albany Theatre, London

Dowsing for Sceptics [2009]
A self-education session for Each Teach

Under the Waters [2008]
An FM broadcast audio piece of an imagined city rising from a lake in Cumbria

Strandline [2008]
Beachcombing on the Thames in London by Bugsbys Reach

Signs of the City [2008]
European photography project working with young people and mobile phones

International Vegetable Bingo [2008]
Performances on a canal boat in Birmingham and in Shropshire

Hints To Travellers [2007]
A reimagined boat journey on the Ogooué River in west Africa

kerkorgaan / graven / klokken / molenaar and I Grew the Tea.... [2006]
New soundworks in The Telephone Tour in Peter Stuyvesant's Ghost in New York

The Right To Live [2006]
A guided walk for Camberwell Arts Festival, London

Dowsing Poplar [2006]
Collaborative map-making

Here I Am, Still Strong [2005]
A film for mobile phones

Livefeed: A spirited amateur's guide to live and wireless video [2005]
A residential laboratory in the uses of digital and wireless cameras

e-state [2004]
A film for mobile phones

Changing Bow, A Guided Tour [2004]
A guided tour of Bow

48 Words [2002]
every which way poetry for the texting generation

Paradise [2000]
Video installation commissioned by the Stoke Negation Festival

Idle Talk [1998-99]
Conversational tupperware robots

TALKS, PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

Winbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London, May 2012
A presentation of my work made during my residency at Chelsea College of Art (2010-11) on a panel chaired by David Webster, Associate Dean at Wimbledon College of Art.

Unofficial Histories conference, Bishopsgate Institute, London, May 2012
Presentation about my 2011 project Hidden Histories: Common land and squatting in Hackney.

Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London, November 2010
A presentation of my work as part of my residency at the College

University Campus Suffolk, Ipswich, December 2009
Shooting Mobile
Lecture and workshop on film making on mobile devices

London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, November 2009
Beyond Cinema: The future of Live Cinema
Panel discussion with Michael Faulkner (D-Fuse), Yomi Ayeni (Expanding Universe) and Duncan White (Central St Martins) at the launch of LCC's new Eckersley Gallery

FDMX, University of East Anglia, Norwich, March 2009
Mobile Phone Films: Aesthetics and Activism
Lecture and workshop at the Film and Digital Media Exchange for the East of England

SCIRIA, Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, November 2008
Mobile Technologies
Lecture and workshop at the Sensory Computer Interface Research & Innovation in the Arts research group's OpenMind lecture series

REJI 2008 (Rencontres Européennes des Jeunes et de l'Image), Centre Pompidou, Paris, November 2008
Youth film making on mobile phones
Presentation at the European Forum on Youth and Moving Images of my projects with young people making films on mobile phones

Signs of the City: Young People’s Photographic Imaginary of the European Metropolis, October 2008
Presentation of my work with homeless young men using mobile phones to document their city for the Signs of the City project.

Pocket Films Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris, June 2008
Youth film making on mobile phones
Presentation of my work with young people. Screenings of the INSTANT FILMS compilation of films made in 2007 with young people through the Hayward Gallery and BBC Blast

Record, Re-enact, Act, Leicester City Gallery, May 2008
Speaker at this seminar held by IAF (International Artist Fellowship) Leicester and Leicester City Gallery

FILMOBILE, University of Westminster, London, April 2008
Mobile art
Presentation of my work at the FILMOBILE conference and exhibition of IN MY NAME and INSTANT FILMS at the FILMOBILE exhibition at London Gallery West

Olympic Artists Symposium, SPACE Studios, June 2007
Presentation of my work Dowsing the Olympics

Artists in Social Housing, node-l Media Arts Festival, 2006
Presentation at the Media Artists and Social Housing Forum, London.

Pervasive Connections, SPACE Studios, London, May 2005
Video on Mobile Phones
A presentation and workshop with Jes Benstock

Ethics into Aesthetics, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, October 2005
Presentation about In My Name at the EastInternational exhibition
Conference organised by Gustav Metzger

WRITING

Strandline - beachcombing on the Greenwich Peninsula, Street Signs (Spring Issue 2009), Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths University of London

Co-Pilot
invited host on this online resource for people working at the intersection of art, technology and social change developed by SPACE and Solar Associates (2009)

Video on mobile phones, Mobiles in a Box and Message in a Box, Tactical Tech's toolkits for advocacy and social change (2009)

Walking, talking, photographing, Signs of the City - Metropolis Speaking, Jovis, Berlin (2009)