Research interests: Cityscapes: Social Poetics/Public Textualities, exploring public textualities in urban spaces moving signs and the reading of ever changing city electronic boards, the nomadic in languages/culture in the city and the use of the web as a creative space to engage the users in public urban displays (AHRC funded)

Maria Mencia PhD
Digital Artist and Senior Lecturer in Digital Media at Kingston University, UK. She holds a practice-based doctorate in Digital Poetics and Digital Art, University of the Arts-London. Has exhibited nationally and internationally: England, Spain, Belgium, Holland, USA, Germany, Norway, Cuba, Brazil, Japan and presented papers at national and international conferences: ARCO - I International Conference in Visual Studies, Madrid, Spain, Feb. 2004. Digital Surface: Approaches to Current Research in Contemporary Art Practice. A CULTURE 2000 Programme of the European Union, celebrated at the TATE Britain, London June 2003; onedotzero, ICA, London, May 2003; FILE 2002, (International Festival of Electronic Language), So Paulo, Brazil, August 2002; ISEA 2002 [Orai] (International Symposium of Electronic Arts), Nagoya, Japan, Oct. 2002; IV Jornadas de Arte y Multimedia 2002, CaixaForum- Mediateca, Barcelona, Spain and BEAP (Biennial of Electronic Arts Perth), CAiiA-STAR CONSCIOUSNESS REFRAMED IV, Australia, Aug. 2002.