who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Talan Memmott
Blekinge Institute of Technology,
Campus Gräsvik (Valhallav. 1),
Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, 371 79
Karlskrona, Sweden
Keywords digital media, electronic
literature, digital art, literary
hypermedia
María Mencía
Kingston University, School of Arts
and Social Sciences, Surrey
Keywords new media, poetry,
literature, sound-generated poems,
net.art
Maria Mendona
Kenyon College, Music and
Anthropology Departments, Storer
Talan Memmott is Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Culture in
the Digital Culture and Communications programme at Blekinge
Institute of Technology, and an internationally known practitioner of
electronic literature and digital art with a practice ranging from
experimental video to digital performance applications and literary
hypermedia. His work is widely available on the Internet, and has been
included in electronic anthologies, has featured at festivals and
conferences, and has been the subject of numerous critical texts. His
current research interests include digital poetics, practice-based
research methods, and digital media pedagogy in the humanities.
Memmott holds an M.F.A. in Literary Arts/Electronic Literature from
Brown University and is completing a Ph.D. in Interaction Design at
Malmö University.
› Codework: Phenomenology of an anti-genre, Journal of Writing in Creative
Practice, 4.1, 93-105.
María Mencía is an artist and senior lecturer in Media and Culture and
Digital Media at the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston
University. She holds a practice-led doctorate in Digital Poetics and
Digital Art. Her practice-led research in language-driven new media
art/ poetry/ literature includes interactive installations, net.art, soundgenerated
poems and interactive generative narratives. She has been
awarded various research grants to collaborate at international
universities such as New York University, Royal Melbourne Institute
of Technology and The University of Sydney, and has presented and
exhibited internationally at festivals such as the International
Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), onedotzero, Electronic
Language InternationalFestival (FILE), International Contemporary Art
Fair (ARCO), Computers in Art and Design Education (CADE) and
TATE Modern.
› From the page to the screen to augmented reality: New modes of languagedriven
technology-mediated research, Journal of Writing in Creative
Practice, 4.1, 3-7.
› Connected memories: Contextualizing creative research practice, Journal of
Writing in Creative Practice, 4.1, 37-51.
Maria Mendona is Assistant Professor in Asian Music and Culture in
the Music and Anthropology Departments at Kenyon College. Her
research interests include Indonesian music (particularly gamelan
traditions of Java and Sunda), globalization of culture, and music and