Music Video for Lee Taylor – A Letter For A Friend #LGBTQ #suicideawareness
A Letter To A Friend – Lee Taylor/Wild Woman Records from Melissa Ulto on Vimeo. I partnered with my friend, Lee Taylor, on her song “Letter To A Friend”, and created this stock-only lyric music video. It was important to find a unifying theme for the visuals and use that as a through line. […]
Spring Mandala 2021-1 – NFT Art
Check out another piece of NFT art, available on another platform Mintable – Spring Mandala 2021-1 – a 3D animation of a mandala in early spring colors. See a gif of the work below. See images from the animation below:
NFT – Fantasy 59
Launching a piece of NFT art – Fantasy 59 – reminiscent of carnivals – link to NFT page here. See gif of the video here:
PRIDE in the Time of COVID-19 – 2020
PRIDE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 – 2020 from Melissa Ulto on Vimeo. For PRIDE 2020, as part of a number of virtual events, Melissa created a piece of video art, “PRIDE in the Time of COVID-19”. She included the colors of various LGBTQ+ flags, especially the trans flag, in order to show how interconnected […]
Figment 2021 & Mandalas Under COVID-19
For her participation in the virtual version of Figment 2020, Melissa Ulto created a piece called Mandalas Under COVID-19. The concept of the piece was to create soothing video art in a time of universal mourning and fear. She performed this piece, along with a full VJ/DJ set live, on the Friday night of the […]
The Getty acquires Miranda July’s ‘Joanie 4 Jackie’ – including a piece by Melissa Ulto
The Getty acquires Miranda July’s feminist DIY video archive for ‘Joanie 4 Jackie’ Before there was YouTube, there was “Joanie 4 Jackie.” In 1995 artist Miranda July, who was steeped in the Portland Riot Grrrl scene at the time, created a feminist “chainletter tape,” a DIY effort to spark and distribute new video work by women […]