MELISSA BLISS

workshops

A Sense of Place at Open Age Hub, London
An Arts Council England-funded project on behalf of FreqOUT! working with older people in Pimlico using digital technologies to prodcue work on the theme of "A Sense of Place".

Mobile Movies at FUSE, London
Making films on mobile phones workshop at this one day youth arts festival in Kensington Gardens, organised through FreqOUT!

Community Mapping for Story of Stratford, Stratford, London
I worked with Colegrave primary school in Stratford, east London to create a Funny Map. The children invented characters and stories and made masks based on their own faces and those of historical figures from Stratford. They photographed themselves with their amsks around Stratford and put the iamages onto a Google Map.This is part of artist Helen Marshall's two year Story of Stratford project

InteractivityGenerations Together for FreqOUT!, Westminster, London
Coummunity mapping workshops at Hammersmith & Fulham Action on Disability using photography, video, audio, GPS and Google Maps. Themes emerging were an interest in nearby places, especially Fulham Football Club and Bishop's Park, and the difficulties of navigating the local area in a wheelchair

Where is Maida Hill for the Harrow Road Neighbourhood Partnership, London
A day-long community mapping workshop during a local history day

Interactivity for FreqOUT!, Westminster, London
Coummunity mapping workshops in Westminster SW1 and Lisson Grove NW8 using photography, video, audio, GPS and Google Maps

Creative Media Bootcamp for the Roundhouse, London
Intensive film making workshops with teenagers and film maker Adam Ryzman. The workshops ran alongside the iTunes Festival at the Roundhouse.

Mobile Movies for the Roundhouse, London
A three day workshop with teenagers making films on mobile phones.

50 Pieces of Information for the National Portrait Gallery, London
A three day workshop exploring public and private portraits in the context of the coming national identity cards. We looked at images and data in passports, oyster cards and other forms of official portraits and in social media.

Mobile Portaits for Westminster Summer University
A series of one day workshops at the National Portrait Gallery using mobile phones to take photographs inspired by pictures in the galleries.

Signs of the City for Urban Dialogues, Berlin
Signs of the Cityis a Europe-wide project with young people from Berlin, Barcelona, Sofia and London. I worked with homeless young men in central London to use mobile phones to take photographs of the city. The work can be seen at citipix.net.

2007

Oxford Street VIP Festival, London
On the busiest shopping day of the year, Oxford Street in central London was closed to traffic and a range of performances and acts lined the streets. I worked with FreqOut!'s new Project Manager Jenny Irish and young people from the Cardinal Hume Centre to create instant mobile phone films of the day to Bluetooth to the crowd.

Mobile Shooting for BBC Blast
One day mobile phone video workshops around the country for the BBC’s creative program for 14-19 years. The films were shot and editied on mobile phones.

My Territory for the Hayward Gallery, London
Films shot and edited on mobile phones by young people in south London for the Hayward Gallery's Digital Dialogues season. I worked with youth groups in Waterloo SE1 and Stockwell SW9 and young mothers in Lambeth SW2. Commissioned through FreqOut! Some of the films were later screened at the FILMOBILE exhibition in London and the Pocket Films Festival in Paris in a compilation INSTANT FILMS.

2006

Lyme Guide for Silicon Coast, Dorset
A teenager's audio guide to Lyme Regis presented on a website. This project was part of Silicon Coast and commissioned by PVA.

Visitors Studio for HTTP Gallery, London
Young people from Wood Green Youth Club, London jamming live with young people at the Q Arts centre in Derby. We used Furtherfield's Visitors Studio realtime internet jamming environment. The workshop was held alongside the Game/Play exhibition [HTTP/Q Arts].

Changing Lives for The Women's Library, London
Working with teenage girls from Highbury Fields School to make a video about the Suffragettes for The Women's Library, part of London Metropolitan University.

2005

Victoria Voices for FreqOUT!
Creating a recorded audio walk of Victoria, central London, with residents of the Cardinal Hume Hostel, Westminster. Part of the FreqOUT! Westminster Wireless Festival 2005.

Mobile Reporting for the Norwich Gallery
Working with teenage girls in Great Yarmouth to make videos on mobile phones. This workshop accompanied the exhibiton of my mobile phone work In My Name at eastIntenational 2005 at the Norwich Gallery.

Filming on mobile phones for Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
A one day Lab as part of Up to Speed: the Potential of Broadband as a New Space for Research, Development and Production, a joint event by Arts Council England, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Watershed Media Centre, Bristol.