About me

Short Bio

Being ceaselessly inspired by deception, Letta looks for the origins of the real and the artifice, exploring the fine line between truth and myth-making. As a method, Letta employs speculative investigations, storytelling, sci-fi, using new media, sculpture, video games, commercial goods and imagery. In her work, she investigates the interconnected relationship between the physical and digital realm, post-human thought, and the future. She engages with layers of “reality” that are at odds with each other as well as investigates social constructs and paradoxes. Often her research-based practice can be found combining the historical and the contemporary looking for the interrelation between the current technology and the early (pre)industrial practices. Letta’s work also explores gender constructs and gender representation, as part of her identity is being a full-time woman.
Other Roles Artist, Digital Artist
I Manage I am a founder and curator of a online/Malta based digital platform WhatDoWeDoNow? that hosts a variety of online and offline exhibitions in collaboration with artists who are part of media art networks globally.
Skills 3D Printing Academic Research Ceramics Fabric Installation Mixed Media Photography Sculpture Video Web Design

Education

Education History

Currently Research Excellence Fellow at @the Immersion lab, UoM
MFA Digital Art (University of Malta)
Philosophy/Sociology (University of Vienna)

Experience

Exhibitions

SELECTED exhibitions:

A dream of unfiltered air @Nuit Blanche, Paris (FR); (Oct.2021)
Strangers in a strange land group show curated by Unfinished Art Space @Muza (MT); (2020)
Algorithmic Oracle @ VideoVortexXII, by Institute of Network Cultures (NL) @ Spazju Kreattiv(MT); (2019)
LisbonLQ1.jpeg @ Zaratan Arte Contemporanea, Lisbon (PT);(2019)
Object, Objecc, Objetc @SpazjuKreattiv (MT); (2019)
Algorithmic Oracle at Vanity Projects (by Daata Editions), Miami, USA; (2019)
Little Hell Gate group show by Daata Editions at Frieze Art Fair, New York, USA; (2019)
Dream Catcher group show by Daata x Phillips at The Box @ Phillips, New York, USA; (2019)
An area of some importance at Digitalartistresidency.org; (2019)
The Tension of Things Unsaid @ Listastofan, Reykjavik, IC; (2017)
Christmas at my parents’ house at Roundabout LX, Lisbon, PT; (2016)
Now no longer – Now not yet at Spazju Kreattiv, MT (2016)
Achievements

Arts Council Malta – Project Support Grant for the exhibition Such stuff as worlds are made of.

Arts Council Malta – Research Support Grant for Women photographers in 1860s Malta part 2

Arts Council Malta – Travel Grant – artist residency at Zaratan, Lisbon, PT

Arts Council Malta – Research Support Grant – Women photographers in 1860s Malta

Arts Council Malta – Project Support Grant for Object, Objetc, Objecc international exhibition at Spazju

Kreattiv

Arts Council Malta – Travel Grant for research and exhibition preparation in Wroclaw, Poland in

September and November 2018

Arts Council Malta – Travel Grant to attend SIM ART Residency, Reykjavik, May 2017 Arts

Council Malta – Travel Grant to attend SIM ART Residency, Reykjavik, November 2016
Work

2021 – ongoing RSO II at University of Malta, Department for Digital Arts

2018 – ongoing Super 8 film/ Glass plates / Slide film digitisation engineer at Magna Zmien

(community archiving project)
Residencies

Come with me to Mars @ Cloud residency, Servus.at
An area of some importance part 2 @ Offsiteproject.org Google Maps Residency.
Zaratan Arte Contemporanea residency (Lisbon, PT) September 2019
Crypto H(e)aven @ isthisitisthisit
An area of some importance part 1 @Digitalartistresidency.org
AIRWRO (Exchange between Blitz Valletta and Strefa Kultury Wroclaw) Wroclaw, PL Apr 2018
Roundabout.LX residency (Lisbon, PT) Aug 2017
SIM residency (Reykjavik, IC) Nov 2016/ May 2017