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Melissa Coleman

Melissa Coleman (NL) is an artist, teacher and software engineer.

Melissa Coleman is a wearables artist working in The Hague, the Netherlands. Melissa's work focuses on the relationship between the human body and technology. Her key areas of interests are electronic textiles, old media, the performative body and sense augmentation. Melissa teaches do-it-yourself electronics and electronic textiles at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and interaction lab at the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam. In 2009 she worked as software engineer at the AR+RFID Lab where she collaborated on interactive installations for Augmented Reality. In 2007, as a guest at the School for New Dance Development at De Theaterschool in Amsterdam, she studied choreography, movement research and improvisation. Melissa Coleman holds an MSc in computer science and media technology from Leiden University.

In the summer of 2009 Melissa created Media Vintage during an artist in residency at V2_, which was presented at the Test_Lab: Summer Sessions and the Ars Electronica Festival.

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Test_Lab at Festival Ars Electronica

Sep 2009

V2_ presented a special edition of Test_Lab: Summer Sessions at the Festival Ars Electronica 2009 in Linz. Respondent: David Stolarsky (Ars Electronica Futurelab), performance: Robot Cowboy (Dan Wilcox, Ars Electronica Futurelab).

Test_Lab: Summer Sessions 2009

Sep 2009

At the end of the summer of 2009, a new Test_Lab season started, with presentations of new works by artists-in-residence Melissa Coleman, Tarik Barri, and David de Buyser, developed during V2_'s Summer Sessions.

Symposium TechnoSensual

Aug 2012

Piem Wirtz gives a talk at the TechnoSensual End Symposium in Vienna. An evening with showcases and presentations marking the end of a very successful exhibition with more then 25.000 visitors in 2,5 months.

Crafting the Future: Meet the Scene

May 2012

During DEAF2012, with Alex Schaub, Kristi Kuusk, Mili Tharakan, and Melissa Coleman.

Emotional Rescue Through Media

Sep 2010

In a world over-saturated with data and virtuality, is emotional rescue possible through physical media? “Het Wilde Weten” invited the public to an evening of art works presentations, interactions and drinks.

TECHNOSENSUAL: Where Fashion Meets Techology

Jun 2012

Sep 2012

Exhibition curated by Anouk Wipprecht, presenting electronic textiles and wearable technologies created by international haute tech couture designers at quartier21 in Vienna.

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