Maria Mencia is an artist-researcher and Senior Lecturer in Digital Media at Kingston University, London, UK. Her doctoral research in Digital Poetics and Digital Art (2000-2003) was one of the first in the field. Her practice-based research is at the intersection of language, art and digital technology. It explores the area of the in-between the visual, the aural and the semantic in transparent and abstract textual landscapes and linguistic soundscapes. She has exhibited and presented her work widely at international festivals, conferences, research seminars, art events.