Diana MESA (MEZA)

Work Experience

Cité Universitaire De Paris

Visual identity and graphic design consultant

November 2009 - July 2010 Paris, France

Freelance

Graphic designer

Cité Universitaire de Paris
LUST France
Cité Babel
Alba magazine
Marc Ryckerwaert
Saúl Sánchez
ADN S.A.S
EasySolutions Ltda
Miler Lagos
2008 - Paris, France

Easy Solutions

Visual identity creator

November 2006 - December 2006 Bogotá,

ROCOCO

Manager

Curator and exhibition organizer

Website conception/design/programming
December 2006 - October 2007

Work Experience

ETAPES Magazine

Contributor

Paris, France

Portraits La Galerie

Contributor

August 2010 - Paris, France

Journal Cité Babel

Contributor

December 2009 - Paris, France

Work Experience

Alba Magazine

Creator and art director of the bilingual (spanish-french) cultural magazine

Art director

Member of the editorial Board

Website conception/design/programming and maintenance
Paris, France

Education

École Nationale Supérieure Des Arts Décoratifs

Research

http://ecrituresceremonielles.ensad.fr/
September 2008 - September 2010 Paris, France

Université Paris Vincennes - Saint Denis (Paris VIII)

Master, Arts et technologies de l'image (ATI)

October 2007 - September 2008 Paris, France

Universidad De Los Andes (ULA)

Bachelor, Literature

May 2003 - September 2007 Bogota,

Universidad De Los Andes (ULA)

Bachelor, Arts with an emphasis in digital media

August 2000 - May 2005 Bogota,

Languages

Spanish (Native),
English (Fluent),
Japanese (Conversational),
French (Fluent),

Awards

Universidad De Los Andes

Meritorious Mention of Arts' undergraduate thesis

200505

Universidad De Los Andes

Meritorious Mention of Literature's undergraduate thesis

200709

Skills

Infographie 2D: Photoshop - Illustrator - InDesign - Fireworks, Infographie 3D: Maya, Video: Premier - After Effects, Web: Flash - Prcessing - Dreamweaver,

Publications

3/2009 Edition. Hernandez, Manuel. Mentonimias y antonimias
hablo, hago callo. : Ediciones Uniandes, 2009.
ISBN: 9789586953566

8/2008 Research undnergraduated thesis: Ahí y olvidado. Negatividad sin
negatividad en L'attente l'oubli de Maurice Blanchot. Monografías
meritorias en literatura ; no. 13. Bogotá : Ediciones Uniandes, 2008.
ISBN: 9771692649006

5/2007 Essay: Experiencia familiar, naturaleza y cuerpo para el
instante de la dilución. "Convergencias 2005". Estudiantes de
literatura en conversación. Ediciones Uniandes. Bogotá. 2007.
ISBN:9789586952491

5/2005 Essay: La imagen de las palabras. “Convergencias 2004”.
Estudiantes de literatura en Conversación. Ediciones Uniandes:
Bogotá. 2005. ISBN: 9586951871

Conference Participation

"Homepages" 21th Forum CAP COM of public and territorial
communication, St-Etienne, France , December 2009 (Invited
Speaker)

"Wrtiting the city". Salons de recherche de l'ENSAD. Paris, France,
Octobre - Decembre 2008 (Theme Leader, Organising Committee)

"The image of words" Convergencias 2004. Bogotá Colombia, May
2004 (Invited Public Lecture)

"Jose Watanabe: Experiencia familiar, naturaleza y cuerpo para el
instante de la dilución" Convergencias 2005. Bogotá, Colombia, May
2005 (Invited Public Lecture)

Research projects

"Reading and writing, or the punctuation of silence"
Much inspired by Maurice Blanchot’s work, I conducted a research
work on the narrative process, establishing a relationship between
the public and the writer or artist which dynamically alters the
process of reading and writing.

"Writing the city" at the ENSADLab. Interdisciplinary research
(design, architecture, sociology and political sciences) on visual
languages of cities.