Specimens for Improvisation is a game that I have been developing and prototyping during my internship at the Institute For The Future. It’s a card game for fun and bodystorming inspired by design solutions found in nature. You can make up stories, improvise a sketch, or create your own dancing moves to appropriate the features [...]

We have the questions, we know the answers is a game about the future of California that I have been developing and prototyping during my internship at the IFTF. It is a collaborative brainstorming platform designed to help Resloc plan a system of local integrated foodsheds. Resloc will be founded in the future somewhere between [...]

IthakArts is an interdisciplinary and multicultural nonprofit arts organization that I have been collaborating with. I have been working on developing the online identity of the group, designing a website and strategizing their online presence through social networks.

Video Documentary, created in collaboration with Yiannis Christofides on the history of open-air cinemas and the parallel development of the city of Athens. The still existing open-air cinema spaces and topoi in the center of Athens, are the starting point of our impressions, walks and conversations around the city. Some of the cinema theaters are [...]

525 Seconds spent together is the portrait of a stranger, waiting in the Los Angeles Union Station, part of the series “Moments of Liminal Space.” The waiting room of the train station is a space lost in time where I go to observe and document the purposeless gestures of waiting. The video footage of the [...]

314 Seconds spent together is the portrait of a stranger, waiting in the Los Angeles Union Station, part of the series “Moments of Liminal Space.” The waiting room of the train station is a space lost in time where I go to observe and document the purposeless gestures of waiting. The video footage of the [...]

700 Seconds spent together is the portrait of a stranger, waiting in the Los Angeles Union Station, part of the series “Moments of Liminal Space.” The waiting room of the train station is a space lost in time where I go to observe and document the purposeless gestures of waiting. The video footage of the [...]

The waiting room of a train station is a space lost in time where I go to observe strangers. The waiting body becomes the threshold between the everyday experience of public spaces and the unexplored territory of subjective motional states and gestures. “Moments of Liminal Space” is an installation of rhizomatic portraits composed of video, [...]

Melissanthi Saliba is a media artist, designer, and researcher exploring cultural phenomena and practices in urban environments. Her work moves through a spectrum of multiple media forms and disciplines, including graphic design, photography, video and audio installation, design research and strategy, online environments, and data visualization. Drawing from an anthropocentric and anthropometric approach, her work [...]