MELODY
Artist Website: www.melodymou.com
Awards
2023 Media Arts Award, FutureTense 2022 - Award
2022 Student Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement
2022 New Media Writing Prize 2021 - Writing Magazine Student Award
2019 - 2022 HKSAR Government Scholarship
2019 - 2022 Dean’s List, School of Creative Media
2019 - 2022 HKSAR APEC Scholarship
2020 HKSAR TDS Scholarship
2019 HKSAR ROA Scholarship
2019 Dr. Peter Chung Yin Lee Memorial Fund Scholarship
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Exhibition / Publication
2025 I International CoMDiF Conference
2025 Siggraph Asia - Art Paper
2025 NeurIPS Creative AI - Art Gallery
2025 Debox - Public Access Memories - Exhibition
2025 Thinking in Circuits - Bounding Box - Exhibition
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2024 Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research CIEJ - Publication
2024 Vision Unbound - The NEXT & EEL - Exhibition
2024 Washington State University - Talk / Project Sharing
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2023 FILE Festival, ANIMA+ category - Screening
2023 Student World Impact Film Festival - Screening
2023 "Hong Kong Neighborhoods" - Digital Art Exhibition
2023 VIDEOFORMES 2023 - Video Art Academy - Screening
2023 FutureTense Exhibition 2022 - Exhibition
2023 T-Short Festival - Screening
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2022 Lugano animation Days - Screening
2022 SOUNDTEXT - Skuc Gallery - Exhibition
2022 Relentless Melt No. 25 - Screening
2022 Supernova Digital Animation Festival 2022 - Screening
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2021 The New River - Spring Issue - Publication
2021 Future to see the Future - M50 ShangHai - Exhibition
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2020 The Ghosts In Walls - ITALIC Gallery - Exhibition
2020 THE VENTRILOQUISTS, THINKING NARRATIVELY
- Floating Projects (JCCAC)
Melody Mou (she/her) is a media artist whose work explores ecology and experimental narrative through computational technologies. Her research addresses threatened ecologies in the context of social conflicts, indigenous knowledges, and the ways language reproduces ideological assumptions. Her current art practice investigates alternative uses of technology, especially machine learning and electronics, for ecological purposes.
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Melody received a BA in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong. Her artwork has been shown in a variety of contexts, including FILE Festival, The New River, VIDEOFORMES, New Media Writing Prize, and FutureTense Awards. Melody worked as a researcher and a creative technologist for ACIM SCM Lab and Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Currently, she is an MFA student at the UCLA Design | Media Arts.
Experience
2024.9 - present Teaching Assistant
Design Media Arts, UCLA
2022.10 - 2024.9 Research Assistant
ACIM, School of Creative Media
2022.6 - 2022.10 Creative Technologist
Hong Kong Arts Development Council
2019.12 - 2020.6 Project Assistant (Intern)
The Collective HK
2019.2 - 2020.6 Creative Manager
TED x cityuhongkong
2019.9 - 2022.6 Graphic Designer, Photographer
City University of Hong Kong
MOU PEIJING
Cross-disciplinary Experience:
Major: Creative Media ; Minor: Computing
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CS1103B Media Computing
CS1102 Introduction to Computer Studies
CS2115 Computer Organization
CS2204 Fundamentals of Internet Applications Development
CS2311 Computing Programming
CS3483 Multimodal Interface Design
SM2715 Creative Coding
SM3610 Hardware Hacking
SM3603 3D Natural Interaction
SM3809 Software Art Studio
JC2002 Artists in Lab
SM3808 Special Topics in Art & Science
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