Mel Day & Michael Namkung, Wall of Song (Grace Cathedral version), 2017, video installation and live singing event. Mel Day is a British-Canadian interdisciplinary artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her video, new media, participatory and curatorial projects investigate the role of uncertainty and instability involving diverse belief systems. Day will share highlights from her practice and the evolution of collective singing and civic engagement in her work. Day’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Grace Cathedral (San Francisco), San Francisco Film Festival, The Berlin Office (Berlin), Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), and Berkeley Art Museum. Residencies and honors include Headlands Center for the Arts Alumni New Works Award, Djerassi Residency (Woodside, CA), Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus Residency (Schwandorf, Germany), SF Murphy Fellowship, and UCB Eisner Prize. She has published in the Journal of Performing Arts and has recently curated Love & Longing (San Francisco). Day is currently curating an experimental video screening as part of V-Tape’s Curatorial Incubator “Video in the Age of Sublime Uncertainty” with guest curators Jennifer Fisher and Jim Drobnik (Toronto). She holds an MFA from UC Berkeley and a BFA from Queen’s University, Canada with a year’s study at the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. Previously at UC Berkeley, Santa Clara University and University of Toronto Mississauga’s Art & Art History Program, Day currently teaches at San José State University. // www.mmd.ca //