Melanie Clemmons
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214-768-4139 |
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Melanie Clemmons is a new media artist that reimagines our use of digital technology toward a softer and more carefully innovative present and future, one that is symbiotic with art. She explores the exponential ubiquity and advancement of networked digital technologies, and the myriad and often bizarre ways humanity is irrevocably altered by them (for better or worse). She makes asset packs, videos, net art, installations, 3D printed sculptures, and XR experiences and performances.
In addition to national/international gallery and museum work, Clemmons toured with Pussy Riot doing visuals during their first North American tour and collaborated on several music videos. She has collaborated with Zak Loyd since 2009, performing live visuals and composing immersive video, laser and XR installations. She is an assistant professor of digital/hybrid media at SMU in Dallas, TX.
Clemmons has exhibited her work at, among others: HeK (House of Electronic Arts), Basel, Switzerland (via Lorna Mills’ Ways of Something); Dieglan Gallery, Akureyri, Iceland; Scope BLN, Berlin, Germany; the Whitney Museum of American Art, Manhattan (via Lorna Mills’ Ways of Something); Light Year, Brooklyn; Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles; LRLX, San Francisco; Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland; UPFOR Digital, Portland; Denver Digerati’s Supernova, Denver; Women and Their Work; Austin; Museum of Human Achievement, Austin; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; and many other DIY spaces and venues.
Recent Work
Solo Exhibitions/Screenings/Performances
2022
Supernova Festival (Installation and Performance), Denver, CO (Invitation, Collaboration with Zak Loyd and Ryan Wurst)
BOREAL CRUSH PACK, SRO Photo Gallery, Texas Tech University’s Landmark Arts, Lubbock, TX (Juried)
BOREAL CRUSH PACK, Dieglan Gallery, Akureyri, Iceland (Juried)
2021
LIKES CHARGE, LIGHT TEAR, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX (Invited by Catherine Craft Phd, Curator)
LIKES CHARGE, Fort Lewis College Art Gallery, Durango, CO (Invited by Melissa Scaldani, Gallery Director)
2020
WAGON (performance), Quonset Hut Microcinema at Carpenter Hotel, Austin, TX (Invitation, Clemmons & Loyd collaboration)
LIKES CHARGE, Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX (Juried, Catalog)
2019
AFTER WORLD CAM, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park SP2, Dallas, TX (Invitation, Clemmons & Loyd collaboration)
VIRTUAL HEALING, Radial Gallery at the University of Dayton, Dayton, OH (Invitation by Nicholaus Arnold, Gallery Director)
2017
Detail(s) from GRAMMATRON, Upfor.Digital Gallery, Portland, OR (Invitation, Collaboration with Mark Amerika)
Research
Internet Art, Video Art, Installation Art (Video, Laser, XR), 3D printing (SLA), Virtual and Augmented Reality, Live Visual Mixing.
Course list
Introduction to Digital/Hybrid Media | ASIM 1300 |
Intermediate Digital/Hybrid Media | ASIM 1330 |
Digital/Hybrid Media Workshop (Previous Theme: The Attention Economy) | ASIM 3310 |
Special Projects in Digital/Hybrid Media | ASIM 3325 |
Art in the World | ASAG 3310 |
Systems (Foundations Course) | ASAG 1312 |
Graduate Seminar |
ASAG 6300 |