About the project and the artist

The Scnery Project began as class project for the Computational Cameras class at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

MELISSA A. DELA MERCED is a creative technologist and an Assistant Professor of the University of the Philippines Film Institute (UPFI). She has worked in commercial films and television for 11 years prior to teaching. She is a co-founder of taopo.org, a social responsibility website which nudges government to action. She is an advocate of free speech on the internet. She obtained her bachelors degree in Film from the University of the Philippines and her masters degree in Interactive Telecommunications from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Her photographs and artwork have been exhibited in New York and in Manila.