Melissa Daoulas is a seasoned writer, producer, and educator with a decade of experience in streaming platforms and television networks. She started her career working for National Geographic while at the University of Maryland, where she was responsible for technical video evaluations for US, International and Nat Geo WILD programming. She credits her time there as being pivotal for her love of media arts.
Material Actions
Material Actions is a performance created with video artist Mark Brown. The piece was originally developed for the Dutch Cabinet at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland and premiered as part of their 2016 ART/SOUND/NOW series.
In this performance Fucile used a series of contact microphones to "play" common, modern materials such as bricks, coins, and a fan. Brown projects a sound-reactive video behind me. The work work considers the economics of the Dutch Golden Age and the modern museum.
In this performance Fucile used a series of contact microphones to "play" common, modern materials such as bricks, coins, and a fan. Brown projects a sound-reactive video behind me. The work work considers the economics of the Dutch Golden Age and the modern museum.
Medium: performance
Year: 2016
Details: 30:00
Dada Morte
Dada Morte uses musical interpretations of an IBM computer punch card found among Fucile’s late father’s possessions. It also features melodica, voice, and electronics. This performance was part of the exhibition Memento Mori at The Parlor in Baltimore, MD and included live video projections by artist Brenton Lim.
Medium: performance
Year: 2022
Details: 16:52
X_X_I
X_X_I is an audiovisual manifestation of Carrie Fucile and Brenton Lim's intersecting ideas about technological upheavals from the twentieth century to the present. Fucile’s audio component consists of live vocals, melodica, MIDI keyboard, field recordings of hidden home and business technologies, and digitally generated sound. Lim’s live video is derived from his original block coding designed for the piece. This performance documented here was presented at The Center For The Arts, Towson University, Towson, MD.
Medium: performance
Year: 2023
Details: 16:06
Over the course of her quarter century plus career in the music industry, Tinku Bhattacharyya has engaged in a multitude of unique, groundbreaking roles driven by her enduring passion and creative approaches to artist development and fierce advocacy for artist rights administration and protection. Since launching her career as a club promoter and DJ with Thelonious Junk (Big Beat) and Café Graffiti in Edinburgh in 1995, the UK bred, New York and Baltimore-based visionary has defined what it means to be an innovative Renaissance Woman in the fast-moving, ever-evolving music industry.
As an Author, Illustrator, Muralist, Doll Artist, Puppeteer, and Master Teaching Artist, Danyett Tucker has over 15 years of experience cultivating joyful learning environments for multi-generations of learners. Dedicated community artist that is passionate about using visual storytelling techniques to support mental health awareness, embrace strength through adversity, and to help build a more equitable and inclusive society for Everyone!
I've always loved drawing and painting and I want to share that now.
I am an emerging poet yet to grace the pages of published works, weaving the tapestry of emotions through the art of verse. Hailing from Silver Spring, MD, who discovers inspiration in the ordinary, crafting poetic expressions that resonate with the nuances of the human experience. I seamlessly blend analytical insight with artistic flair, creating a unique poetic voice.
Derek Pentz, AKA the Drag Rockstar Zenobia Darling, is a famed performing artist and painter known for blurring the lines between visual and performing art.
Derek is a graduate of Towson University's theater program, where he studied reality television's theatrical and societal relevance, writing his undergraduate theater thesis on two of Bravo's reality tv theater masterpieces, Vanderpump Rules and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, titled "Would Oscar Wilde be a Nineteenth-Century PumpHead? The Wilde Aspirational Comedy of Vanderpump Rules."