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Melissa F. Clarke

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Melissa F. Clarke is a Brooklyn based interdisciplinary creative whose work often employs generative and interactive custom-programmed environments. Melissa is an educator, designer, and an artist working at the intersections of research, science, architectural and user experience. She extrapolates research into multimedia installations, generative video and sound sculptures, performances, printed images and experiential design work. Clarke is a graduate of NYU’s ITP program with a Tisch Fellowship. Clarke has been a lecturing professor at SUNY Stony Brook University teaching Interactive Installation Art, Introduction to Computational Art, Animation and Web Art. And, she has been a practitioner of experiential and user experience design for several years.

“What Melissa F. Clarke reveals through her installation is how the confluence of interior and exterior data generates a range of intermediate places. Their asymmetrical occurrences transform boundary surfaces at the meeting point of multiple environments, showing how different functions, forces, and energies redefine or alter different states of matter. Like with our appreciation of the Antarctic landscape, understanding of the dimensions created within the installation is a matter of scale, observation, and interaction.”
Anti-Utopias
“The discogs.com entry for Melissa F. Clarke is mercilessly brief, and with good reason. This New York-based sound artist doesn’t go in for headphone music; she crafts immersive, science-fueled audio/visual experiences that demand observation of the interplay between images and sonics, like the haunted hum of Untitled Antarctica—which riffs on Sonogram-reading image onrush as it calls to mind the majesty of arctic ice while nodding at its depletion—or the nullifying, cornea-peppering turbulence of Bacteria, her collaboration with video artist Shimpei Takeda. (Her single-medium work is arresting, but her multi-sensory adventures are transcendent.)”
Village Voice
“Growing up in the Northeast United States, ITP grad and new media professor Melissa F. Clarke has always been surrounded by nature’s extremities—most notably the cold, snowy winters that are often apparent in her works. Geography, land, weather and the numbers and data behind these naturally occurring phenomena are major influences and components in her cross-disciplinary pieces. But what’s really interesting about her installations and multimedia projects, is that a certain project tends to evolve over several different mediums as the work progresses.”
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