MELISSA BLISS
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TALKS, PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES
RECENT PROJECTS
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
International Vegetable Bingo [2009]
Performance on 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
TALKS, PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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: developments in 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, 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), 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 young men using mobile phones to document
their city for the Signs
of the City project.
Pocket Films Festival, 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.
IAF Leicester, May 2008
Record, Re-enact, Act seminar, IAF
(International
Artist Fellowship) Leicester and Leicester City Gallery.
FILMOBILE,
London, April
2008
Mobile art
Presentation of my work at the FILMOBILE conference and exhbiiton of IN
MY NAME and INSTANT
FILMS at the FILMOBILE exhibition at London
Gallery West.
Olympic Artists Symposium, June 2007
Dowsing the Olympics
Presentation of my work
Artists in Social Housing, node-l Media Arts Festival,
2006
Presentation at the Media Artists and Social Housing Forum, London.
Pervasive Connections, SPACE, London, May 2005
Video on Mobile Phones
A presentation and workshop with Jes Benstock
Ethics into Aesthetics, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, October 2005
In My Name
Conference organised by Gustav Metzger
RECENT 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)
SELECTED PAST PROJECTS
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
Idle Talk [1998-99]
Conversational tupperware robots