Faculty Member, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Senior Lecturer in Digital Media
About
María Mencía is an artist and Senior Lecturer in Media and Culture and Digital Media practice at the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University. She holds a PhD in Digital Poetics and Digital Art by the University of the Arts, London. She studied English Philology at the Complutense University in Madrid, Fine Art and History and Theory of Art at the University of the Arts London.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Mencía’s practice-led research in language media art/poetry questions the mark as a meaningful and visual form, phonemes as ‘semantic’ units, the creation of new meanings in mediated textualities of image-sound-text. It draws from different cultural, social, artistic and literary traditions such as: linguistics, fine art, film, visual, concrete and sound poetry, with digital poetics, electronic writing, and new media art theories and practices. Her practice includes interactive installations, net.art, sound-generated poems and interactive generative narratives.
Her work is in collections such as the First volume of the Electronic Literature Collection, K. Hayles, N. Montfort, S. Rettberg, S. Strickland eds. The Electronic Literature Organization, UCLA Department of English, Los Angeles, as well as, in various databases in research centres.
http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/mencia__birds_singing_other_
Her practice in experimental textual and sound poetics has been exhibited as installations, videos, performances and net.art at art galleries, international conferences and festivals such as ISEA, FILE, BEAP, onedotzero, Caixaforum, ICA and TATE Modern.
María has been awarded various research grants to develop her practice-led research and collaborate with various international universities such as the RMIT in Melbourne, Australia (AHRC Small Grants); The University of Sydney, Australia (TIES Grant) and Media Research Lab -New York University, NY, USA (Promising Researcher Fellowship by Kingston University).
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