Melanie Menard

Work Experience

Freelance

Artist

Currently focusing on photography, video, new media and installations. Have worked with painting, wood, found objects, assemblage. Member since 2006 of Artsite, an artist-led organisation in Swindon managing studio spaces and an art gallery.

Selected Exhibitions

2011
Royal West of England Open Photography 2, RWA, Bristol.

2010
Electrofringe festival, Festival of electronic arts and culture, Newcastle, Australia.
Last Friday Shorts, Southend on Sea.
Long Exposure and Ghost Houses, joint exhibition at Norwich Arts Centre.
The Women’s Art Show, Fairfields Arts Centre, Basingstoke, UK.
http://photonet.org.uk/anideaofhome, The Photographer’s gallery online slideshow “An idea of home”.

2009
FILE Electronic Arts festival, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Facing the Future Open Photography - Elysium Gallery, Swansea.
The Women’s Art Show, Fairfields Arts Centre, Basingstoke, UK.

2008
Art in Woodstock festival, The Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock.
Through the lens - Royal West of England Academy Open Photography Exhibition. Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
Inside Out - Women's Work exhibition. The Link Gallery, University of Winchester.

2006
Photographs used on record covers by the French experimental label Archetyp
September 2005 -

Music Technology Lab Of The University Of York.

Visiting Research Student

Implementation in C++ of a spectrogram based on an auditory model, which was added to WinSingAd, a Windows software providing singers with real time visual feedback about the quality of their voice.
February 2005 - July 2005 York, United Kingdom

ST Microelectronics

Audio Programming Graduate Trainee

Design of a dual microphone circuit, sound takes to create a database in order to compare the performances of various beam forming algorithms. Definition of the performance criteria for these algorithms.
June 2004 - August 2004 Paris, France

Education

Camberwell College Of Arts (University Of The Arts)

MA Visual Arts (Digital Arts)

September 2009 - September 2011 London, United Kingdom

Classe Prépa Lycée Corneille

MPSI-MP Equivalent to BSc Maths-Physics

September 2000 - June 2002 Rouen, France

Languages

English (Fluent),
French (Native),
German (Advanced),

Skills

Adobe Audition, Audacity, Cinematography, Cool Edit Pro, Cyberlink Power Director, Documentary, Editing, GIMP, Long Exposure, Photography, Photoshop, Serif Movieplus, Sound Design, Video,